Search Engines

Researchers should be aware of the following aids to Internet navigation.

• Internet Search. Provides direct access to a selection of internet search engines, plus results of a sample search to provide some guidance as to how effective each type of search might be for your particular needs. An excellent place to start.

• Internet Access-Point: Searching the Internet. Provides not only direct access to many important Internet search tools (including gopher, web, and usenet search tools), but excellent explanations of the strengths and capabilities of each. It is organized according to the kind of information for which you are looking.

• CUSI Services. This is a list of CUSI-like services around the world. CUSI is a single form to search a large number of different WWW search engines, see About CUSI for details.

• Lycos (tm) is the catalog of the Internet. The Lycos web explorer searches the World Wide Web every day (including Gopher and FTP space), building a database of all the web pages it finds. The index is updated weekly.

• W3 Search Engines. This excellent site makes available some of the more useful search engines available on the WWW. It is maintained by the Centre Universitaire d'Informatique, University of Geneva.

• W3 servers. This is the summary of a list of registered WWW servers alphabetically by continent country and state. It is maintained by CERN.

• Cyberspace Searching Tools. In this web site, John Harlan brings together some of the more usefel web search engines, including ALIWEB, InfoSeek, Lycos, Veronica (for searching Gopherspace), WebCrawler, WWW Home Pages Broker, World Wide Web Worm, and Yahoo.

• Popular Navigational Aids. Here are the winners of the Best of the Web '94 Awards for navigational aids. This site give you direct links to the nine finalists and the 1994 award winner, the WorldWideWebWorm. It also includes an excellent overview of each search engine's methods and strengths.

• University of Minnesota gopher, the mother of all Gopher servers. Faculty at the University of Minnesota invented gopher software and named it after the school's rodent mascot. The UMN ur-gopher lets you burrow through cyberspace and pop up at Gopher servers worldwide, thus giving you international access to "gopherspace."

• EINet Galaxy. The Galaxy is a guide to worldwide information and services and is provided as a public service by EINet and Galaxy guest editors. The information is organized by topic, and can be searched.

• GNN: Global Network Navigator. An on-line guide to the Internet's vast resources. Simplifies net-surfing.

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