Alta Vista | Excite | FTP Search
| HotBot | Infoseek
| Looksmart | Lycos
| Magellan | Northern
Lights | Snap! | Web Crawler | Yahoo!
| Other Engines/Directories
This is the GazetteOfTheArts.com guide to the most popular and comprehensive internet search
engines, web crawlers, and directories. We encourage you to exercise discretion while
browsing the internet using this directory. Most of these search engines are designed to
be comprehensive and do not monitor content on the sites they search. You may be directed
to sites containing information that you may find offensive or inappropriate. Most, if not
all, search engines do not check for accuracy, copyright compliance, legality, or decency
of material contained in sites listed in directories or sites listed in search results. If
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Alta Vista A
search engine developed by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1995., seeks to
index the whole internet.
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Excite claims
access to more than 50 million Web pages, 140,000 pre-selected Web site listings, and
thousands of Usenet postings based on its patented. ICE (Intelligent Concept Extraction)
technology. This means that when you enter a search query, Excite searches the entire
world wide web for documents containing related concepts, not just the keywords you
entered.
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FTP Search form) This is probably the largest non-commercial FTP (File
Transfer Protocol) search service, claiming indexing of over 78 million files. The server
for this search service is located in Trondheim, Norway.
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HotBot A hip search
engine from the hip magazine "Wired."
Some articles and features contain language that you might think is just a little too hip
for children.
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Looksmart A categorized Internet Directory, uses its own
list, then accesses Alta Vista during searches
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Lycos bills itself as
"Your personal Internet guide " Lycos features a search facility, as well as
sub-categorized main "Web Guides" as these: Autos, Business, Careers, Computers,
Education, Entertainment, Fashion, Games, Government, Home/Garden, Internet, Health, Kids,
Money, News, People, Shopping, Space/Sc-Fi, Sports, Real Estate, Tech Toys, and Travel.
They have sections such as PeopleFind, StockFind, RoadMaps, and Yellow Pages.
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Magellan is an online guide to the Internet that
includes original editorial content, a directory of rated and reviewed Internet sites, a
vast database of yet-to-be-reviewed sites, and a powerful search engine that helps you
find what you're looking for. Web reviews are available on such sub-categorized main
topics as: Arts, Business, Computing, Education, Entertainment, Health, Hobbies,
Investing, Life & Style, News & Reference, People Pages, Regional, Science,
Shopping, and Sports. A service of Excite, Inc.
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Northern Lights The
newest kid on the block among the major search engine. Many think they've built
a better mouse trap. See for yourself. eeek! and other computer services
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Snap! A service of
CNET, Inc. Snap! provides web search capabilities, information, editorial content,
chat rooms, links to other Web sites and other computer services
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WebCrawler claims
priority as the first full-text search service available on the Web, introduced in
April 1994. WebCrawler's popularity stems from providing its users with a powerful yet
easy to use tool which allows them to find just what they are looking for on the Internet.
A service of Excite, Inc.
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Yahoo! Yahoo!
claims to contain organized information on tens of thousands of computers linked to
the Web. They quote the San Jose Mercury as saying "Yahoo is closest in spirit to the
work of Linnaeus, the 18th century botanist whose classification system organized the
natural world." Yahoo was started in April 1994 by two Ph.D. candidates in Electrical
Engineering at Stanford University, as a way to keep track of their personal interests on
the Internet.
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OTHER SEARCH ENGINES AND DIRECTORIES
Explore the Internet: Library of
Congress includes Internet Search tools which allow you to search not only the
world wide web and FTP sites but also Gopher, Hytelnet, Telnet, and Wide Area
Information Server(WAIS) sites. Also includes sections on Browse Topical Guides,
Browse Government resources, and an extremely useful Learn About the Internet section with
topics such as Access Providers, Books and Journals, Conferences and
Events, Guides, Tutorials and Training, New Resources, Statistics, and more. A great
site and you own it, use it.
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dArt: The Internet Art Database™ This is a search engine for actual art!
The thing itself, for sale on the Internet. Their mission statement "The mission of
dART is to efficiently classifying art on the Internet. At the heart of dART is a venue
that serves as a means for creating a direct secondary market that only the Internet can
provide. We support this with a discussion forum that allows patrons to post solicitations
(new dART listings, liquidations, etc.), rants, raves, critiques or otherwise their ideas
of an artist's future direction and consequent value of their work. "
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World Wide Art Resources claims to
provide the biggest gateway to the arts on the Internet There are over 3,000 different
categories from "happening, groovin' art events to traditional planar exhibitions and
museums to way out 3-D cyber galleries." WWAR is a search engine that concentrates
solely on the arts. Includes Arts Locator, Artist Index, Art Galleries, Art Museum, Art
Exhibitions, Art for Sale, Commercial Art, Art Publications, Schedules, Art Schools, Art
Agencies, Child Resources, Art History, FilmResources, Literary Resources, Theatre
Resources, Dance Resources, Antiques, Crafts, Arts Events. The breadth and depth of this
site is awesome, references over 150,000 art pages with massive indexing to make it
accessible and useful.
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