SEARCH ENGINES/DIRECTORIES

Want to know more about search engines and directories?
 

GENERAL
About
All Pages
AlltheWeb

Alta Vista
AnySearchInfo
AOL Search
Ask (formerly Ask Jeeves)
FindSpot
Google
Live (formerly MSN)
LookSmart
Yahoo
META

These companies combine 
the "hits" of other companies 
into one search operation.
Dogpile
HotBot
Info.com
Mamma 
Metacrawler
Monstercrawler
SearchAllInOne 
Search

WebCrawler
 
FILTERED FOR KIDS
Ask for Kids
YahooKids
SPECIALIZED 
411.info [phone, map, address]
Anywho
[reverse phone lookup]
BigBook [business, person]
BizWeb  [businesses] 
Classmates [high school classmates] 
Google Groups  [newsgroups]
InfoSpace  [business and person]
People Finders [name, phone, address]
Reverse Phone Directory
Reverse Records [email, phone, license plate]
Switchboard [person and business]
WhitePages [person, business, email]
WhoWhere? (person and business)
Yellow Book

Zip Code Lookup (U.S. Post Office)

Answers - Research tool: encyclopedia, dictionary, almanac

Wikipedia - Online encyclopedia authored and edited by volunteers; extensive, not always reliable

Open Directory Project - comprehensive directory of the web with volunteer editors

Reference Books

Just in case you want to know: Search engines are programs that find information on websites; directories catalog information that is submitted.

Just to confuse the definitions, some of these companies use information from search engines and submissions. And some companies combine hits from other companies.

Most search engines and directories make it easy for you to customize a browser start-up page to fit your particular surfing interests--and to add their brand-name tool bar to add to your browser.

If you want your school's website to show up when somebody does a search, you should register with several of these companies. On their homepages, look for a link worded like "Add URL."

Want to know even more about search engines and directories?  Try SearchEngineWatch.

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