|
Hindsight I T Solutions
Links to Search Engine Web Sites
|
|
|
|
A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P
Q R S T
U V W
X Y Z |
|
|
L
-
Law.com - You won't find the
ability to search legal-related web pages, but there are lots of
links, and the service offers free e-mail assistance if you still
can't find what you are looking for, after visiting the site. Simply
click on the Free Help button at the top of the home page to get help.
- LawCrawler
- An AltaVista-powered search engine that returns information only
from sites that have been identified as dealing with legal issues.
- LinkStar -
Search Engine and E-cards.
- Lokace -
francophone search engine.
- Look Smart
- Reader's Digest-backed human-compiled directory, closest rival to Yahoo
- Lycos - Lycos
started out as a search engine, depending on listings that came from
spidering the web. In April 1999, it shifted to a directory model
similar to Yahoo. Its main listings come from the Open Directory
project, and then secondary results come from the FAST Search engine.
Some Direct Hit results are also used
|
|
M 
- Magellan
- Magic
Search - JavaScript-powered site which allows launching of
searches in several search engines.
- Mamma - The
Mother of All Search Engines. Mamma.com is a "Smart Meta Search
Engine." When the user enters a query at the Mamma.com website,
Mamma simultaneously queries 10 of the major Search Engines and
properly formats the words and syntax for each source being probed..
- Master
Site
- MathRix
est un annuaire de recherche francophone specialse dans les sites
mathematiques. MathRix is a directory of web sites in French and
about mathematics.
- MathSearch
- search a collection of mathematical Web material
- Matilda Australian-based
directory similar to Global Online Directory
- MedHunt -
MedHunt uses both humans and web crawling to build its index of
medical information. Searches can be narrowed by region, and a French
interface is available
- Medical World Search
- Listings are created by spidering pages from a select group of
medical sites, in order to keep results tightly focused.
- Medisearch
- UK medical Search Engine.
- Mesch
- Multi-WAIS Engine for Searching Commercial Hosts
- Msn Search
Microsoft's MSN Search service is a LookSmart-powered directory of
web sites, with secondary results that come from Inktomi. RealNames
and Direct Hit data is also made available.
- Mirago -
The objective of Mirago is to view the Internet from a UK
perspective. This means that as well as indexing all UK and Irish
sites that they know about, they also index International sites which
are of interest to residents of the British Isles, in areas such as
Entertainment, Media, Software, Medicine and General Reference. This
approach provides Mirago users with geographically more relevant
search results.
- Mojoe
- MRO-Explorer
- industrial search engine to locate distributors, manufacturers, and
related subjects.
- MusicSearch -
music search engine with over 5,000 links and growing.
|
|
|
N
-
NBCi - NBCi is a
human-compiled directory of web sites, supplemented by search results
from Inktomi. It was formerly known as Snap but had a name change in
late 2000. Backed by US television network NBC, the site's future is
in doubt, as NBC announced wide-spread layoffs in April 2001
- Nebula
Search - Looking for a sci-fi site? Use the only sci-fi search
utility on the Internet! Easy and fun to use with a unique structure.
- Netscape
Search - Netscape Search's results come primarily from the Open
Directory and Netscape's own "Smart Browsing" database,
which does an excellent job of listing "official" web
sites. Secondary results come from Google
- NlightN - A
search engine that expands the information on the web by also
searching databases, newswires, reference materials...all at once.
- Northern Light
- Northern Light is another favorite search engine among researchers.
It features a large index of the web, along with the ability to
cluster documents by topic. Northern Light also has a set of
"special collection" documents that are not readily
accessible to search engine spiders. There are documents from
thousands of sources, including newswires, magazines and databases.
|
|
|
O
- OneKey
- Open Directory
- The Open Directory uses volunteer editors to catalog the web.
Formerly known as NewHoo, it was launched in June 1998. It was
acquired by Netscape in November 1998, and the company pledged that
anyone would be able to use information from the directory through an
open license arrangement. Netscape itself was the first licensee.
Lycos and AOL Search also make heavy use of Open Directory data.
- Open Text
The Open Text Index has been around since at least early 1995. It was
one of the top search engine choices.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
