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Software
People
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Publications
News/FAQs
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Other Interesting Things (Jargon, Acronyms, WIRED ...)
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Tools for information access

See also: our list of Career & Jobs related sites

Last update of this list on September 22, 1999.

Information Servers

List-based WWW Catalogs

Brasil - WWW Catalogs: Cadê
Radar UOL
Surf
Argos
Catálogo de Servidores WWW Brasileiros
CITS
Yahi? - o Catálogo da Internet-BR

See also:: Study Web - reviews and categorizes over 20,000 focused academic sites.; Hot Lava.; Aliweb at Nexor; Find-it! - (Paul Sarena's info collection); Lifestyle.UK - Categorised (10'000+)links, geographically sorted under 87 different headings.; Sharelook Deutschland - Die schnelle Netzsuche (auf Deutsch).; Sharelook France - (en français); EC rider - Categorized and reviewed sites in the Netherlands.; InfoBase International; OmniTree - Categorised (~60 000) links about Computers; Snap!; ZenSearch; Point Of Origin - family safe links, fast results with true content web sites; Web Search - Internet Guide and Reference; Extreme Search; search@YourLeisure; Z-Search - Search engine for WebTV; SearchLite - parent/child friendly directory.; Aeiwi - user friendly search engine.; OzSearch Internet Guide - An all-Australian web directory.; OzOnline; World Wide News - a big worldwide directory of online newspapers.; Egypt Search - Egypt-related web sites directory.; Fat Head Search; Search-4-Info; Max - Search in South African Web.; The Canadian, Eh? - Showcasing Canada's Best Family Safe Web Sites!; AgriBOT - Canada's Online Agricultural Directory; Canadopedia - "La Toile du Canada"; CanadaOne - Canadian Online Business Ressources.; LII - Librarians' Index to the Internet.

Spider-based WWW Catalogs

Recommended:: WWW Worm; HotBot; DarkCRawler - search the Gothic Web; Canada.com - Your Canadian Internet Search Engine.; SwissGuide - lists 60'000 Swiss sites.; Google.; Funkycat.; Australian WebSearch.; NewZealand WebSearch.; Cosmoz; Splat Search; WorldLight; Ananzi - Largest portal in Africa; Zebra - Another South African search engine.

Note. The NIKOS search engine is permanently out of commision. Instead of it use NetScape's search page.

Natural language queries

Other Catalogs

Interesting:: Tsunami surfing page; Orb Search (was Planet Search); Les pages web Plus de 4.000.000 pages en langue française

Other Meta-Search Engines

SiFMuG (Surfing Internet Facilitated Multipurpose Unified Gateway) references a huge list of search engines.

Search Spaniel lets you use as many search engines as you like simultaneously.

Inference Find the Intelligent Fast Parallel Web Search.

External Info page at Twente University.

All4one sends simple queries to AltaVista, Lycos, Webcrawler and Excite

Apollo7 German-language Metasearch with high-performance

Proteus metasearch tool suite

search.langenberg.com - Get There Faster

Search engines worldwide - sorted by country suite

Suchen.com - German language based meta search engine

SavvySearch - search once, find everything

MatchSite

CentraPoint

ioport - MetaSearch and more

AllSearchEngines.com

Search Engines Galore - hundred of search engines!

Search Buddy - Meta-search engine with an original interface.

OzOnline

AllSearchEngines - All about search engines.

1blink

OneSearch - "it only takes OneSearch"

WebInfoSearch - also job,price and people meta-search.

Fujo - You can save your searches for future reference.

Net2day - takes few seconds, then display available results.

Mamma.com

Nominator

MonsterCrawler - also mp3

MetaCrawler

zInternet

MacroSearchAustralian meta-search and search engines list.

MetaFetcher

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Software

See also:: Nexor's Mac Software Catalog; FTP search; Infoware allows you to locate a specific business or organizational software package

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People

See also:: FOUR11 Directory Services; Perso-Search - L'outil de recherche exclusivement reserve aux Pages personnelles; SearchBC.com - search engine for British Columbia business and personal internet ressources; Aquent Talent Finder - The Search Engine for Independent Professionals (IPs): Freelancers, Free Agents, Contractors, Consultants, Self-Employed.

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Education

CityCollege - The Ultimate University and College Directory in North America

CampusRegistry - a directory of current college students and alumni of every college in the world.

PedagoNet - a learning resources search engine.

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Publications

See also:: Cornell University's Technical Report Library

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News/FAQs

Interesting:: Conference Announcement Archive (moderated by Juergen Wagner); NewsGuy News Service

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Documentation

See also:: Nexor's Public Services; RFC index at Nexor; Internet Draft Index at Nexor; webreference.com -- The Webmaster's Reference Library; GoXML.com -- XML Context-based Search Processor.; Alex -- Alex Catalogue of Electronic texts (previously Gopher Catalog of Electronic Texts)