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: INTERNET--Searching--Keyword

Keyword searching is a very important strategy for finding a particular piece of information online. These resources provide a variety of ways to search the information spaces of the Internet and the Web.

------ Collections of Lists

• All-in-one: a search page which combines forms-based search tools from a wide variety of subjects, classified by category
• December Top 5 Keywords: the top five Web keyword searching resources available, from December Communications (http://www.december.com/web/top/keyword.html)

  ------ Keyword Searching Resources

• Accufind: searches infobases, news, books, and the Internet (http://nln.com)
• AIRSII: Arachnae Information Retreival System II; (http://www.arachnae.com/UofT.html)
• ALIWEB: Archie-Like Indexing for the Web, by Martijn Koster (http://web.nexor.co.uk/aliweb/doc/aliweb.html)
• Alta Vista: Search the Web or Usenet for keywords. Includes advanced query form. (http://www.altavista.digital.com)
• Apollo: search for services, retailers and classifieds (http://apollo.co.uk)
• Archieplex: Archie via Web--access archie servers (search ftp sites) via the web (http://web.nexor.co.uk/archie.html)
• Botspot: History of the Net always included Bots and they have been successfully utilized with human computer interaction starting with Eliza in 1966 (http://www.botspot.com)
• CUSI: configurable unified search interface; a forms-based interface into many indices, engines, and Web Spider databases (forerunner is SUSI), by Martijn Koster (http://web.nexor.co.uk/public/cusi/doc/list.html)
• Cyber411: an integrated 'parallel' search engine (http://www.cyber411.com/search/)
• Dejanews: search Usenet news articles (http://www.dejanews.com/forms/dnquery.html)
• Discussion groups: search a list of discussion groups, Bitnet and Internet interest groups (Dartmouth list) (http://a/Inter-Links/cgi-bin/lists)
• Excite: allows you to search the Web or Usent by keyword or concept (http://www.excite.com)
• External info: collects some of the most useful search engines available on the WWW (http://www_is.cs.utwente.nl:8080/cgi-bin/local/nph-susi1.pl)
• Gopher Jewels Search: Search the Gopher Jewels (a collection of subject-oriented gophers) (http://galaxy.einet.net/gopher/gopher.html)
• HotBot: Wired's entry into the keyword search business; 'cool' graphics; klunky interface; no filtering make this HotBot pretty cool (http://www.hotbot.com)
• Hytelnet Web search: search all Hytelnet resource entries, via a web form, from Galaxy (http://galaxy.einet.net/hytelnet/HYTELNET.html)
• Infoseek: a keyword searching service ($) over WWW pages, Usenet, computer magazines, newspaper newsires, press releases, company profiles, moview reviews, technical support databases (http://www.infoseek.com)
• Internet Sleuth: collected keyword search services (http://www.isleuth.com)
• Navigate.net: keyword search of the Web, includes options for title, description, keywords, and URL (http://www.navigate.net)
• NlightN: a database of databases, news, and Internet (http://www.nlightn.com)
• Open Text Index: search the web for a word or phrase (http://opentext.uunet.ca:8080/omw.html)
• Reference.com: provides keyword search of Usenet news (http://www.reference.com)
• SavvySearch: Parallel Internet Query Engine (http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~dreiling/smartform.html)
• Uncover: index to thousands of periodicals (http://www.carl.org/uncover/unchome.html)
• Web Catalog/CUI: is a collection of URL references built from a number of hand-crafted HTML lists, from Centre Universitaire d'Informatique, l'Universite de Geneve (http://cuiwww.unige.ch/w3catalog)
• Web publishers: keyword search of Web-related resources and discussion (http://www.verity.com/vlibsearch.html)
• Web Search Engines: a meta-index of search engines on the Web, with a forms interface, from Centre Universitaire d'Informatique, l'Universite de Geneve (http://cuiwww.unige.ch/meta-index.html)
• Web Spiders info: search the web for information about resources, collecting information into a database which can be queried; e.g., Web Crawler, Web Nomad, Web Worm, RBSE database, Lycos (Araneida, Lycosidae, Lycosa), Harvest Brokers; entry from Internet Tools Summary (http://www.december.com/net/tools/nir-tools-spiders.html)
• Web Spiders: Wanderers, Spiders and Robots; includes list of known robots/spiders, guidelines, standard for robot exclusion, by Martijn Koster (http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/robots.html)