Internet Search Engines.

If you've never used any search engines, please read this before you begin. Useful for anyone is the finding information tutorial at UC Berkeley. Search Engine Watch (Mecklermedia) maintains a fabulously useful Search Engine information site. See especially their search engine features chart. Two other useful collections of search information are Pandia Search Central and SearchEngines.com. You can satisfy your curiosity to see what other people use for search text by looking at MetaCrawler's MetaSpy or Google Zeitgeist.

If you have your own Web pages, consider both how to promote them to make sure they are noticed, and the obverse, how to restrict search engines from indexing your pages. Check out Oregon State University's Promoting Your Pages tutorial. For restrictions, see the Web robots FAQ pages.

Finally, specific to UNH, now you can search the UNH Intranet. Read the FAQ for search engine use at UNH and see our short course materials for Internet search tools and links to meta-resources.
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Search Engines and Directories.

Most of these allow searching by Web, News, and other many other categories.

• AltaVista and Basic Text-Only Search [formerly Raging].
• Excite.
• FAST Alltheweb Fast Search and Transfer.
• Google and Google Groups. and Google Images.
• HotBot.
• LookSmart (directory).
• Lycos.
• Overture [formerly GoTo] (directory).
• WebCrawler.
• Yahoo! (directory).

Metasearch Engines and Sites.

• Dogpile.
• ez2www.com
• iBoogie.
• Mamma Mother of All Search Engines.
• MetaCrawler.
• Search Engine Colossus Int'l Directory of Search Engines.
• SurfWax.
• Vivisimo with document clustering.

Graphics and Images.

• Google images.
• Visoo.com.

Kids and Family Oriented Engines.

• Ask Jeeves Kids.
• Fact Monster [formerly Infoplease]
• Yahooligans by Yahoo.

Specialized and Experimental Engines & Indexes.

• Ask Jeeves.
• Daypop current events.
• DirectHit at HotBot.
• dmoz Open Directory project.
• FindSounds.com.
• FirstGov for U.S. government information.
• Froogle find products for sale.
• the Glossarist glossary directory.
• SearchEdu.com.
• SpeechBot at HP, for popular radio shows.
• Teoma.
• U.S. Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS).
• Weblog about search engines.
• WiseNut.

Agents and Bots.

• The BotSpot.
• TracerLock search engine monitor. [merged with The Informant]

Internet archives and statistics.

The Internet Archive is a multi-terabyte sized collection of Internet Web pages, to capture information over time.
For measurements of the size of the Internet, see the Internet Domain Survey. For information on domain and server usage, see NetFactual. For information on language use by people online, see Global Reach. And for links to the many groups that contribute to the Internet architecture, see Who Runs the Internet.