Issue No 9, January 1998.

NOTICE: Hard copies of the Australian New Crops Newsletter are available from the publisher, Dr Rob Fletcher. Details of availability are included in the Advice on Publications Available.

29. Internet search engines

In searching the Internet, there are many search engines available, each appearing to function slightly differently. Thus results of a search can therefore vary remarkably, depending on the search engine used. Recently, several multiple search engines have been developed which overcome many of these difficulties.

http://www.dogpile.com/

A multi-engine searching tool, which delivers results found from each search engine separately. Uses the search engines:

The Web: Yahoo!, Lycos' A2Z, Excite Guide, World Wide Web Worm, WWW Yellow Pages , PlanetSearch, What U Seek, Magellan, Lycos, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, Alta Vista, Excite & HotBot.

Usenet: Hotbot News, Reference.com, Dejanews, Altavista and Dejanews' old Database.

FTP: Filez, FTP Search and Snoopie!.

News Wires: Yahoo News Headlines, Excite News and Infoseek NewsWires.

http://www.metafind.com/

Searches Alta Vista, Excite, HotBot, Infoseek, Open Text and Webcrawler and summarises all results in one report.

http://www.cyber411.com/

Searches fifteen search engines at once

http://guaraldi.cs.colostate.edu:2000/form

Searches the following: Aliweb, Alta Vista, CSTR, Deja News, excite, EINET, Galaxy, Four11, FTPSearch95, Infoseek, InReference, Internet Movie Database, LinkStar, LookUP!, Lycos, Magellan, NlightN, Pathfinder, Point Search, shareware.com, SIFT, - Stanford Information Filtering Tool, Tribal Voice, WebCrawler, WhoWhere?, Yahoo and Yellow Page.

http://www.inference.com/ifind/infind.cgi

Carries out parallel searching, merges the results, removes redundancies and clusters the hits into neat understandable groupings. The groupings are impressive.

http://www.metacrawler.com/index.html

Searches Alta Vista, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, Webcrawler and Yahoo and returns one report

http://www.euroseek.net/page?ifl=uk

Can be customised to seek European links only, or certain languages only

http://www.vds.com.au/steve/search/search3.html

Search engines by country

http://www.dstc.edu.au/cgi-bin/RDU/hotOIL/hotOIL

Offers useful refinements for a search.

Comprehensive lists of search engines are included in:

http://www.albany.net/allinone/all1www.html

http://www.dreamscape.com/frankvad/

http://www.dreamscape.com/frankvad/search.html

Directory of search engines

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