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{short description of image} Switchboard - the people and business directory
The Switchboard Internet directory continues to gain momentum as one of the Web’s most attractive sites. Switchboard gives Internet users a single site for finding friends, family and colleagues nationwide on the Internet. Switchboard, which provides 106 million residential listings and 11 million business listings, is the first on-line directory to help people rendezvous on the Internet while protecting their privacy.
* eXcite Search
Excite NetSearch is your way of searching the Internet. Whatever it is you're nterested in finding, as long as you know how to refer to it, this is the place to get it. excite's NetSearch contains lots of information for you to search over -- at present, 11.5 million Web pages and two weeks of Usenet news articles and classified ads. That's a lot of info -- which is exactly why we need searching to deal with it -- but what is it all? These different sources of information have very different styles and content. Having a sense for what each is like can help you to choose which source to search over.
{short description of image} InfoSeek Guide
Infoseek's free Internet search services, Net Search and Guide are the most popular ones on the Net today, receiving over 5 million information requests per day from over 1 million unique Internet users worldwide. Infoseek is regarded as the most effective online media buy today.
{short description of image} Lycos - The Catalog of the Internet
Lycos is a research program in providing information retrieval and discovery in the WWW, using a finite memory model of the web to guide intelligent, directed searches for specific information needs. Lycos currently implements basic information retrieval on rich abstracts of Web documents.
{short description of image} Magellan Internet Guide
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. Browse Magellan topics or perform a search and a list of sites that matches your area of interest will appear instantly. Magellan includes Web sites, FTP and gopher servers, newsgroups, and Telnet sessions.
{short description of image} The WebCrawler
The WebCrawler is a tool for searching the Web. It operates by traversing the Web and either building an index for later use, or by searching in real-time for a query. The index built by the WebCrawler is available for searching via the WebCrawler Search Page.
{short description of image} Yahoo Net Search
Yahoo! is a hierarchical subject-oriented guide for the World Wide Web and Internet. Yahoo! lists sites and categorizes them into appropriate subject categories. Yahoo also offers a search feature. If you know exactly what you're looking for, try using Yahoo! search. Specify a keyword or set of keywords, and Yahoo! will search its entire database to find listings that match the keys you provide.

Gopher Resources

{short description of image} Veronica Servers - Search World-Wide Gopher Servers
Veronica is a resource-discovery system providing access to information resources held on most ( 99% + ) of the world's gopher servers. In addition to native gopher data, veronica includes references to many resources provided by other types of information servers, such as WWW servers, usenet archives, and telnet-accessible information services. Veronica queries are keyword-in-title searches. A simple query can be quite powerful because a large number of information servers are included in the index.

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