Web Search Engines

see also Web Indices

  • alltheweb.com
    Features: Claimed to be the largest Web index, limited search commands though.
  • Alta Vista - Search Tips
    Features: Usenet searching, proximity searches, find links to a Web page Recommended.
  • British Library Catalogue
    Features: search the major Reference and Document Supply collections
  • Deja News Research Service - Help
    Features: just archives Usenet new articles, not all newsgroups are covered
  • Euroseek - Help
    Features: relevance ratings, similarity search, search reviews
  • Excite UK - Search Tips - Excite! (USA)
    Features: relevance ratings, similarity search, search reviews and Usenet
  • Infoseek UK - Search Help - Infoseek (USA)
    Features: Usenet, hierarchical subject index, similarity search
  • Inktomi HotBot - Help
    Features: phrase and people-based searching
  • Lancaster University Library Catalogue
    Features: point and click version of the Library computer Recommended
  • Lycos UK & Ireland - Help - Lycos (USA)
    Features: relevance ratings, truncation searches with $ (e.g. japa$ for japan and japanese) Recommended
  • Muscat EuroFerret - Search Tips
    Features: country restrictions, query expansion with automatic truncation
  • Northern Light
    Features: groups results into topic folders, web and special collection searches
  • Webcrawler - Search Help
    Features: relevance ratings, just Web

    • Help Index | Lancaster University
    Produced by the IHE Project Support for Learning Information Searching Skills.

    Comments and suggestions to dmn@comp.lancs.ac.uk
    Last revision: 18th October 1999