W3 Search Engines

This documents collects some of the most useful search engines available on the WWW. Omissions are the fault of the maintainer. Suggestions for additions are welcome! Submit buttons have now been added to accommodate non-Mosaic browsers.

NB: If you find this page especially useful, why not install a local copy on your machine? It will work from anywhere. [The original source of this page is at CUI] You may also be interested in trying out Martijn Koster's CUSI (Configurable Unified Search Interface), and the External Info page at Twente University.

For registering a new URL we suggest to use Scott Banister's Submit It service.

Looking for:

Information servers
Software
People
Publications
News/FAQs
Documentation
Online catalogs and shopping
Other Interesting Things (Jargon, Acronyms, WIRED ...)
Search with human assistance

Last update of original source on November 25, 1994.

Last update of this copy on December 8, 1997.

Information Servers

List-based WWW Catalogs

See also:: Study Web reviews and categorizes over 20,000 focused academic sites.; Hot Lava.; Aliweb at Nexor; The-InIS (Sam Hopkins's The-Inter.net's Info Server); Find-it! (Paul Sarena's info collection); Ricerca page; Lifestyle.UK Categorised (10'000+)links, geographically sorted under 87 different headings.; Sharelook Die schnelle Netzsuche (auf Deutsch).; EC rider Categorized and reviewed sites in the Netherlands.; InfoBase International

Spider-based WWW Catalogs

Recommended:: WWW Worm

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

Natural language queries

Other Catalogs

Interesting:: The Whole Internet Catalog; Tsunami surfing page; Orb Search (was Planet Search); Austria Click

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.