WWW Search Engines and Directories Links

• How to Search
• Search Engines
• Directories
  • People Search & Directories
  • Phone Directories
  • Mail/Physical Address Directories
• See alsoSearch Indexer/Engine Servers
• See alsoSubject Indexes and Collections

How to Search

Bare Bones 101 (Ellen Chamberlain)

http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml

Choose the Best Search... (Debbie Abilock)

http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html

Finding Information (Phil Bradley)

http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm

Google Guide: Making Searching Even Easier (Nancy Blachman)

http://www.googleguide.com/

Pandia Search Central

http://www.pandia.com/

Searchability: Guides To Specialized Search Engines

http://www.searchability.com/

Search Engine Showdown: The Users' Guide to Web Searching (Greg Notess)

http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/

Search Engine Watch (Danny Sullivan)

http://searchenginewatch.com/

The Spider's Apprentice: A Helpful Guide To Web Search Engines (Linda Barlow)

http://www.monash.com/spidap.html

Tutorial: Guide to Effective Searching on the Internet

http://www.brightplanet.com/resources/details/searching.html

Web Search (Wendy Boswell)

http://websearch.about.com/

Search Engines

A9 (Amazon.com)

http://a9.com/

Alexa Web Search

http://www.alexa.com/

All the Web (FAST)

http://www.alltheweb.com/

AltaVista Search

http://www.altavista.com/

Ask.com [formerly Direct Hit and Teoma and Ask Jeeves]

http://www.ask.com/

Banana Slug (Steve Nelson)

http://bananaslug.com/

Beaucoup!

http://www.beaucoup.com/

BIG Search Engine Index [international](Andy Rigby)

http://www.search-engine-index.co.uk/

The Business Publications Search Engine

http://www.bpubs.com/

Clusty (Vivísimo)

http://clusty.com/

DevilFinder

http://www.devilfinder.com/

Direct Search (Gary Price)

http://www.freepint.com/gary/direct.htm

Ditto [image search engine]

http://www.ditto.com/

Dogpile (Aaron Flin)

http://www.dogpile.com/

Excite Search [absorbed McKinley and Magellan]

http://www.excite.com/

Fagan Finder: Image Search Engines

http://www.faganfinder.com/img/

Find Forward

http://www.findforward.com/

Find Sounds

http://www.findsounds.com/types.html

FUTEF - Searching Wikipedia

http://futef.com/

Galaxy Search [formerly EINet]

http://www.galaxy.com/

GlobalSpec [engineering and technical Web site search engine]

http://www.globalspec.com/

Go (formerly Infoseek)

http://go.com/

Google! (Larry Page)

http://www.google.com/

Google Groups [Usenet Archive; formerly Deja and Deja News]

http://groups.google.com/

Google Scholar

http://scholar.google.com/

InfoCom

http://info.com/

ITools (formerly Find-It!)

http://www.itools.com/

Ixquick Metasearch

http://www.ixquick.com/

Krugle [code search for developers]

http://www.krugle.com/

Langenberg (Chuck Langenberg)

http://www.langenberg.com/

Live Plasma [music and movie discovery]

http://www.liveplasma.com/

Lumerias - Video Search

http://www.lumerias.com/

Lycos

http://www.lycos.com/

Mamma

http://mamma.com/

Metacrawler

http://www.metacrawler.com/

Ms. Dewey

http://www.msdewey.com/

Origin Search [genealogy search engine] (Ian Galbraith)

http://www.originsnetwork.com/

Pretrieve [public record search engine]

http://www.pretrieve.com/

QueryCat [FAQ search engine]

http://www.querycat.com/

search.com (cnet)

http://www.search.com/

Search Engine Colossus [international] (Bryan Strome)

http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/

Search Engines Worldwide (Toyo Takakuwa)

http://home.inter.net/takakuwa/search/

The Search Site

http://www.the-search-site.com/

Search Systems - Public Record Locator

http://www.searchsystems.net/

Soople

http://www.soople.com/

Tile.net: The Comprehensive Internet Reference

http://www.tile.net/

WebCrawler Search

http://www.webcrawler.com/info.wbcrwl/

Zuula

http://zuula.com/

Directories

People Search & Directories

FAQ: How to find people's E-mail addresses (David Alex Lamb)

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/finding-addresses/

Congressional Email Directory (Jeffrey Hoffman)

http://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html

Pipl

http://pipl.com/

WhoWhere? People Finder

http://peoplesearch.lycos.com/whitepage/?

Yahoo People Search

http://people.yahoo.com/

Phone Directories

Address.com

http://www.address.com/

Any Who

http://www.anywho.com/

Argali White and Yellow Pages (Boris Katz)

http://www.argali.com/

BigBook [formerly SuperPages]

http://www.bigbook.com/

Get Human (Paul M. English)

http://gethuman.com/

Infobel [telephone directories on the Web]

http://www.infobel.com/world/default.asp

Lookup Directory (Melissa Data)

http://www.melissadata.com/Lookups/index.htm

National Contact Center (US Federal Telephone Numbers)

http://www.info.gov/phone.htm

Reverse Directory

http://reversedirectory.langenberg.com/

Sullr [Names and addresses associated with numbers]

http://www.sullr.com/

Superpages [formerly InfoSpace]

http://www.superpages.com/?SRC=insp

Switchboard

http://www.switchboard.com/

Yellow Pages [formerly Smart Pages]

http://www.yellowpages.com/

White Pages

http://www.whitepages.com/

Zoom Info: Find People and Companies

http://www.zoominfo.com/

Mail/Physical Address Directories

Addresses.com

http://www.addresses.com/

MapsOnUs

http://www2.MapsOnUs.com/

National Address Server: U.S. Postal Address Information (Ajay Shekhawat)

http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/adserv.html

Zip Code, City & Lookup (U.S. Postal Service)

http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/citytown_zip.jsp

Country Codes used in Internet IDs

http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/wwwstat/country-codes.txt