INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES

To start making good on our desire to make the EM Handbook your MOST FREQUENTLY VISITED WEB SITE, we have included direct links to several Search Engines entirely for your convenience. We intend to use these Search Engines to collect information and tools to be included in the EM Handbook.

Forbes Magazine estimated that in mid-1995 there were 70 gigabytes of data on the World Wide Web. Finding what you need in all that data can be a real time-waster. Instead let one of these "search spiders crawl the web for you."

Send us any URLs you uncover containing information related to our EM Handbook subjects show in the TABLE OF CONTENTS. Happy searching!

ALTA VISTA (comprehensive index, relevance ranking, can specify host, image, link, text, URL) [About] [Help]

DefenseLINK (provided through the cooperative efforts of the Office of The Assistant Secretary of Defense [Public Affairs], and the Defense Technical Information Center) [Help]

DEJA NEWS (Usenet newsgroup searches only; comprehensive index to newsgroups, coverage currently back two years) [About Deja News] [Help]

EXCITE (selective index, subject listings too, gives summaries, can weight words) [About Excite] [Help]

HOTBOT (comprehensive index, different search levels, limit by media type or location, specify person or URL, gives abstracts) [FAQ] [Help]

INFOSEEK (comprehensive index, subject listings too, language options, separate searching for E-mail addresses, companies, FAQs, proximity within 100 words) [Help]

LYCOS (comprehensive index, relevance ranking, separate search option for sounds and pictures) [About Lycos] [Help]

MAGELLAN (selective index, subject listings too, many sites rated and reviewed, relevancy ranking, presents related sites) [Help]

METACRAWLER*** (multiple search engines [8], results from Open Text, Lycos, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, Excite, Inktomi, Alta Vista, and Galaxy are combined, can specify region, domain, wait) [FAQ]

OPEN TEXT INDEX (comprehensive index, two search options - simple and power) [FAQ] [Help]

SAVVY SEARCH*** (multiple search engines [19], combines results, search forms in many languages.) [FAQ] [Help]

WEBCRAWLER (comprehensive index, subject listings too) [Help]

YAHOO (selective index, subject listings too, also search yellow pages, for people, city maps, stock quotes) [FAQ/Help]

***Try these two first!

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