Search Engines

laven.gif (1007 bytes)Yahoo       Indexed entries arranged by topic.  Searches whole words and
                        bound phrases.  No relevancy ranking. User friendly.
laven.gif (1007 bytes)Altavista   Allows Usenet newsgroups article searching. Searches whole words 
                        and bound phrases.  Allows Boolean (AND, OR) searching.                  
laven.gif (1007 bytes)Ask Jeeves
laven.gif (1007 bytes)Excite  Searches whole words and phrases.  Allows Boolean (AND, OR) 
                and proximal operators.  Relevancy ranking.
laven.gif (1007 bytes)Fact Monster
laven.gif (1007 bytes)Go
laven.gif (1007 bytes)Google   
laven.gif (1007 bytes)GoTo
laven.gif (1007 bytes)Lycos     Indexes first 20 lines of text.  Relevancy ranking.
laven.gif (1007 bytes)Metafind    
laven.gif (1007 bytes)Snap   
laven.gif (1007 bytes)WebCrawler     Search capabilities limited to Boolean (AND, OR) 
                                operators. Relevancy ranking.

Subject Indexes

laven.gif (1007 bytes)ARGUS Clearing House
laven.gif (1007 bytes)Internet Public Library
laven.gif (1007 bytes)Librarians' Index to the Internet
laven.gif (1007 bytes)The Virtual Library     Distributed subject catalog.
laven.gif (1007 bytes)The Virtual Reference Desk    Online reference libraries of Purdue University.

Locators

laven.gif (1007 bytes)AnyWho Directories
laven.gif (1007 bytes)SuperPages
laven.gif (1007 bytes)Switchboard
laven.gif (1007 bytes)WhoWhere?
laven.gif (1007 bytes)Yahoo! People Search
laven.gif (1007 bytes)ZIP-Plus-4 Codes

 

News Sources

laven.gif (1007 bytes)ABC News
laven.gif (1007 bytes)AccuWeather
laven.gif (1007 bytes)CNN News
laven.gif (1007 bytes)Dateline NBC
laven.gif (1007 bytes)MSNBC News
laven.gif (1007 bytes)Reuters
laven.gif (1007 bytes)Time Daily
laven.gif (1007 bytes)USA Today
laven.gif (1007 bytes)U.S. News & World Report
laven.gif (1007 bytes)The Wall Street Journal
laven.gif (1007 bytes)The Washington Post
laven.gif (1007 bytes)The Weather Channel
laven.gif (1007 bytes)Yahoo! News Full Coverage:  Top Stories

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