Shared Parenting Information Group (SPIG) UK

Search engines

Guides - how to use search engines (BUBL)

Search for topics:

• About * - A metasearcher - "A network of sites led by expert guides"
• Accufind ** - A metasearcher - "The web's smartest searcher"
• All in One * - A metasearcher
• Ask Jeeves ** Answers ordinary questions - metasearch
• Alta Vista ** Powerful search engine - very popular.
• Excite **** Powerful search engine. Concept-based. Our favourite.
• Fast Search *** - fast!
• Go to * - "search made simple"
• Google *** - fast!
• Highway 16 - A metasearcher
• HotBot ** - The wired search engine
• Infoseek - Search Web pages, Newsgroups, Usenet FAQs, Reviewed pages and Topics (UK site)
• Lycos *** Big, thorough, comprehensive.
• Magellan * Related to Excite - concept-based
• Metacrawler ** A metasearcher - searches: AltaVista, InfoSeek, Galaxy, Lycos, Excite, WebCrawler
• Netfind (AOL) *** Powerful search engine
• Northern Light *** Builds up custom search folders - very useful
• Savvy Search ** A metasearcher
• WebCrawler - Simple, easy-to-use search utility
• Yahoo! ** Easy to use. Has links to other search engines.

other lists of search engines...

• BUBL **
• Charm **

Search for people:

• Bigfoot - *** "the largest collection of e-mail addresses and 'white page' listings"
• BUBL - list of people search engines
• Four 11 - Internet White Pages
• Infospace
• Mailbase
• Yahoo People Search

Search newsgroups

• Dejanews

Search for UK content

• Excite UK
• Lycos UK
• UK Plus
• Yahoo UK
• Yellow pages

Last updated - 23 December 1999