[IS] W3 Search Engines

This document, copied from CUI, collects some of the most useful search engines available on the WWW.

Looking for:


Information Servers

CUI World Wide Web Catalog
JumpStation
Global Network Academy Meta-Library
Aliweb (Archie-like Indexing for the Web)
NorthStar (Search WWW document headers)
The Whole Internet Catalog
Veronica (Gopher directory search)
Jughead (Gopher directory search)
WAIS directory-of-servers index (gateway access)
WAIS directory-of-servers index (direct access)

Software

Archieplex (Swiss server at SWITCH)
The Language List
The Free Compilers List

People

Netfind gateway (name key key ...)
Finger gateway at

Publications

Rik Harris' Abstracts Index
The Unified CS TR Index
Computer Science TR Archive Sites
OO Bibliography (object-oriented and related papers)

News/FAQs

Gopher FAQ Search
FAQ Search (for now, this one won't support HTTP 1.0 clients)
News Archives (WAIS index)
Search news.announce.conferences

Documentation

WWWFinder (NCSA WAIS Search)
BSD/386 Hypertext Man Pages
CUI Computer Science Library

Other Interesting Things

Say (Text to Speech Translator)

See also: CUI's collected search engines.


This page was originally inspired by NCSA's Experimental Search Engine Meta-Index.

Thanks to all who have contributed suggestions!


OMN at CUI.