California State University, Northridge

Searching the Web

Web navigation is really pretty easy. The Web, itself, contains all the indexing, pointers, and assistance you are likely to need as long as you know where to look. While there is no one perfect Internet search engine, some are more popular than others. Try them out and see which is the easiest for you to use and, at the same time, provides you with the information that you are looking for. I am constantly updating my search engines page, which you might want to visit too.
Shelia Harbet, Ph.D., Professor of Health Sciences
Aliweb
Alta Vista
aquí
Archie Request Form
DejaNews
Excite NetSearch
FTP search'95 v3.0
Gateway to Infinity
Harvest Broker
HotBot
Indiana Search
Infohiway

InfoSeek Guide
Information Superlibrary
Infoseek Ultra
Inktomi
Internet Resources Meta-Index
Internet Sleuth
Lycos
Magellan
Mcom
WWW Megalist
MetaCrawler

NET Navigator
Open Text Index
SavvySearch
Tribal Voice
Veronica Search
Wandex
WebCrawler
Whois Gateway
WORLD WIDE WEB WORM
W3 Search Engines
More W3 Search Engines
Yahoo!


Note: many of the above links will no longer be active since not all of these original Search Engines are still in use.


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Some advice from Students.



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