Search Engines on the Web
[ Alta Vista ][ Webcrawler ][ Yahoo ][ OpenText ][ Excite ][ Metacrawler ]


AltaVista, a search engine courtesy of Digital Equipment Corp.

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Excite: From Sun Microsystems

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Web Documents: Search the largest web database, more than 1.5 million pages.
Usenet: Search more than 1 million articles from 10,000 newsgroups.
Classifieds: Search Usenet classified advertisements from the past two weeks.
Reviews: Search our database of over 35,000 web site reviews.

Open Text, An engine based at the U of Waterloo

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Webcrawler: Courtesy of America Online


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Yahoo! One of the first. Invented by two university student. Now it's a corporation.

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Unified Search Engine from "The News", including Metacrawler

Please fill out the field to suit the scope of your search. You can search with a wide variety of engines from here.

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This page has been adapted from the Vancouver Sun Web Site.
Revised November 04, 1996.