Simon's Search Engines

Do not use AND or OR to combine words, simply type a few words or phrases.
To find a bed-time story: "fairy tale" +frog -dragon

Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides

A comprehensive source for education links on the Internet.

Single Word Search Example: art
Search for art AND program: art;program
Search for art OR program: art,program

A phone book of virtually every business in the USA.

Search the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)

Examples: Travel +France
          Jaguar -car -automobiles
          swimming AND (man OR woman)

FOLDOC is a searchable dictionary of acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architecture, operating systems, networking, theory, conventions, standards, mathematics, telecomms, electronics, institutions, companies, projects, products, history, in fact anything to do with computing.
This dictionary is Copyright Denis Howe 1993, 1996.

Internet's largest white page directory with over 5 Million listings. They claim to be "The best way to search for someone's e-mail address or Web page".

Search the Hytelnet documents, each of which acts as a telnet or tn3270 session gateway.

Infohiway delivers web addresses with a difference: Relational Links.
Try a name or keyword.

Required:
    Last name to find: 
Optional (helps narrow your search):
   First name to find: (e.g., "jo*")
         Organization: (e.g., "acme*") 
               Domain: (e.g., "acme.com")

Links to some of the most popular and powerful search engines available.

Searches for mailing lists.
To find parts of words, use an asterisk (*) to represent missing parts of the word. For example, if you enter "world*" it will match "worldwide", "worlds", etc. Similarly, "*world" would find "underworld", etc.

Examples:  baseball              writ or litera or book
           baseball or football  india not indiana 
           b*ball or f*ball      "bad art"
           "art" not (rock or game or tattoo)   

   Name              E-Mail 
   City   State or Province  
Country        Directory(s)  
Individual Business/Org.

Example: wooden boat
Finds records that contain either "wooden" or "boat" or both.

Example: the wooden boat
Finds records that contain either "wooden" or "boat" or both; it ignores the word "the."

Example: wooden - boat
Finds records that contain "wooden" but not "boat."

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Enter a word or phrase.

More than 5.3 million adresses.

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A very fast file finder!

Snoopie checks for and returns all the files it finds that begin with your query. Basically, if you ask for 'win', you're asking Snoopie to return all entries that begin with 'win'. Snoopie will first return all the entries that match 'win' exactly, then will return other entries that begin with 'win'. Snoopie is not case sensitive, so a query of 'win' could return 'win', 'Win', or 'WIN'.

Search for people and businesses.

An archive of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and other periodic, informative articles, posted in the Usenet newsgroup news.answers.
You can use the booleans and, or, and not.

Searching for 'foo bar' will yield a list of documents that match 'foo' or 'bar' and will then rank the resulting matches. All searches are case insensitive.

     (e.g. Last Name, Interest, Business)
     (e.g. First Name, optional)
     (any info, optional)
     (any info, optional)
    Examples:  search field indicated between ( ) 
    Bill Clinton:              Clinton(1)  Bill(2)
    Ford Motor Company UK:     Ford (1)    Motor(2)    Company(3)  UK(4)

The premier search directory for women online.

The search takes the word [WWWomen recommends no more than 3 words for faster searches] you have entered as a keyword and it searches the database within the Title of the site, the URL, or the summary statement.
Note: the keyword MUST exist somewhere in the Title, URL, or summary statement.

The Web Guide for Kids! Designed for Web surfers ages 8 to 14.