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A search engine allows you to type in either a word, multiple words or a phrase.
Here is an alphabetical index of some of the more popular search engines and what they will do
for you.
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One of the largest databases allowing user to find links to their own pages. Allows you to hunt for an image (image:searchword).
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Search the Internet with the Excite navigation service. The Internet's most comprehensive guide
to communities around the world. Bringing you 300 of the world's best magazines and newspapers!
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HotBot was the first search engine to index and search the entire World Wide Web, and
represents the only search engine technology in existence that can expand to match the
Web's growth as it doubles and doubles again.
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Infoseek Corporation is dedicated to making information easy to find. The company's services benefit all Internet users, whether they are casual World Wide Web surfers or business professionals whose jobs depend on up-to-date market information.
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One of the largest indexed databases on the web today! Great for e-mail or people finding.
If you're looking for a certain picture, graphic, sound or tune than this is the browser to choose!!
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Great for complex searches. Best "advanced search" interface.
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PowerSearch is a powerful metasearcher that puts over 170 high-quality, popular, and comprehensive
search tools - general and category specific - at your fingertips. Only the best-of-the-best resources
are included so that you don't have to sort through the rest.
Just point and click within the Main Directory's 12 most popular categories: Business, Computing,
Education, Entertainment, Investing, Magazines, News, Reference, Shopping, Sports, Travel, and Weather. You get the best of the Net. And you can easily customize each Starting Point category by adding your favorite sites.
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Need help getting where you're going or just want to see where you are? Check out our Find an Address feature and get an interactive map of any street address in the USA.
Curious to see who links to your home page? Wondering if your attempts at Internet PR are bearing fruit? Surf the Web backwards to find out who links to you.
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Very orderly database allowing the viewer to drill down thru categories. Good news feeds and very organized!
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You can also use some of the Internet Yellow and White Pages to find people or businesses
that have some form of presence on the Web!!
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BigBook, Inc. was founded in 1995 to build a whole new kind of Yellow Pages. A Yellow Pages
that would include all the business information that consumers need - and features to let them
get to the information quickly and easily. At the same time, BigBook helps local businesses
provide details about their products and services, cost-free. BigBook makes it easier for consumers
and businesses to hook up with each other, and provides "value-added" information to help
consumers make better, more informed decisions.
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NYNEX Information Technologies Company. Tips on how to advertise, web business guide for
growing your business online.
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Newsgroup Browsing. A simple way to browse Usenet newsgroups by hierarchy and see
what's out there. An easy search form for quick Usenet searches. Now with easy to access
interest locator to help you find what you are looking for in Usenet.
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Four11 was the first company to establish an effective "white pages" directory. "The most
comprehensive and impressive people finder on the Net". Directories include: e-mail, telephone,
net phone. government, international services, cool services, etc.
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The LinkStar Business Directory is the Internet's most accurate business-oriented search engine,
containing more than 320,000 user-entered listings. Internet users can easily find real contact
information on what they're looking for, including e-mail and Web addresses, more accurately
than just about anywhere else online. You may promote your Web site FREE simply by clicking
on the "Add Your FREE Listing" button on the home page (http://www.linkstar.com) and filling out
the form.
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Switchboard broke new ground when it went live in February 1996 by giving Internet users a single
site for finding friends, family and colleagues nationwide on the Internet. Switchboard is also one
of the Internet’s hottest sites for people seeking information on businesses with more than 200,000
business look-ups per day.
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Zip2’s software provides you with many powerful ways to locate and communicate with businesses.
You can search for businesses or products near to your home, or within a few miles of your vacation
cottage. You can look through the business’ ads and promotions to decide which best meets
your needs.
Zip2 lets you communicate directly with the business of your choice by FAX or e-mail, allowing
you to ask for a menu or check whether an item is in stock. Once you find what you want, you
can get computer-generated maps and directions that bring you to your destination quickly and
reliably. And the best thing is, that’s just the start. Over time Zip2 will continue to provide you
with useful innovation after useful innovation.
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