WWW Search Engines

Alta Vista

AltaVista searches millions of web pages as well as numerous Internet news/dicsussion groups.

HotBot

This is a joint venture between Inktomi Inc. and HotWired. The search engine features a various limiting options including date, geographic region, and Internet domain. Claims to have the largest database of documents at 50 million.

Infoseek

Lycos

Lycos features a database of Internet resources that contains millions of links and WWW pages. Users can search the database by keyword. The index includes information from the document's title, headings, links, and text.

OpenText

A powerful searcher that indexes over one million web pages. Different than other searchers, OpenText allows you to search for a word anywhere on the page.

WebCrawler

The advantage of this searcher is speed. It contains information about far fewer documents than other searchers. The searcher itself is owned and made available by America Online Inc.

List of Engines
List of Search Engines from Yahoo.