AltaVista gives you access to a Web index: 30 million pages found on
275,600 servers and four million articles from 14,000 Usenet news groups.
EXCITE
Claims to be the biggest and most accurate search engine, the
Intelligent Concept Extraction (ICE) search engine has 50 million fully indexed URLs.
HOT BOT
HotWired/Inktomi uses a high-performance indexer that processes the
full text of your page. The indexer generates a short abstract for your page, and adds it
to a proprietary database that remembers which documents contain which words.
Infoseek has found over 80 million unique URLs and indexed the full
text of over 50 million so far. More importantly, Infoseek's Ultra technology only indexes
the URLs that are meaningful.
ULTRA INFOSEEK
Ultraseek boosts the fastest, most comprehensive and accurate search
engine on the Web. Compare for yourself.
LYCOS
Lycos, Inc., an Internet exploration company, was founded specifically
to find, index and filter information on the Internet and World Wide Web. Besides its
topic- or word-specific searching, Lycos now offers users the ability to search
specifically for pictures and sounds available on the Web. In addition, the Lycos services
include Point Reviews, critical assessments of Web sites; Lycos cataloged over 34 Million
URL's
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 with over 30,000 reviewed, rated, and indexed Web pages.
OPEN TEXT INDEX
Power search:
WEB 411
web://411/ is the Web's leading URL directory. If you know the name of
the site you're looking for, we can help you find it. Tens of thousands of entries make us
one of the most comprehensive freeform directories on the Internet.