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| Table 26: A Comparison of 100 Search Services |
|
| Search Service |
URL Address |
Boolean Operators |
Results/
Page |
Multiple
Pages ? |
Max.
Listings |
| @BRINT — Business Research |
www.brint.com |
AND,OR,()," |
No |
| AlbanyNet |
www.albany.net |
--- |
10 |
Yes |
| AltaVista UseNet |
www.altavista.digital.com |
--- |
10 |
Yes |
200 |
| AltaVista UseNet Advanced |
www.altavista.digital.com |
AND,OR,(),NOT,NEAR,",* |
30 |
Yes |
| AltaVista WEB |
www.altavista.digital.com |
--- |
10 |
Yes |
200 |
| AltaVista WEB Advanced |
www.altavista.digital.com |
AND,OR,(),NOT,NEAR,",* |
10 |
Yes |
200 |
| American Memory Collection Search |
lcweb2.loc.gov |
--- |
20 |
Yes |
| America's Job Bank Search Index |
www.ajb.dni.us |
--- |
200 |
No |
200 |
| AOL NetFind |
www.aol.com |
AND,OR,(),NOT,,", |
40 |
Yes |
| AquaLink |
www.aqualink.com |
--- |
40 |
| ArchNet Archaeology |
spirit.lib.uconn.edu |
AND,OR,(),NOT,", |
200 |
No |
200 |
| BizWeb |
www.bizweb.com |
# |
200 |
No |
200 |
| c|net News |
www.news.com |
AND,OR,(),NOT,", |
25 |
Yes |
500 |
| c|net Search.Com |
www.search.com |
--- |
10 |
Yes |
| c|net Shareware.com |
www.shareware.com |
--- |
100 |
| CBS Sportsline |
cbs.sportsline.com |
--- |
25 |
Yes |
| CNN Database |
www.cnn.com |
--- |
10 |
Yes |
| CNNfn — the financial network |
www.cnnfn.com |
--- |
100 |
| CollegeNET |
collegenet.com |
200 |
No |
200 |
| Computer Gaming World |
cgw.gamespot.com |
--- |
50 |
Yes |
| DejaNews |
www.dejanews.com |
AND,OR,(),NOT,NEAR,* |
50 |
Yes |
| Discovery Channel Online Search |
www.discovery.com/whatsonline/search.aspl |
--- |
10 |
Yes |
| Encarta Online |
find.msn.com |
AND,OR,(),NOT,NEAR,* |
50 |
Yes |
| Environmental Organization Web Directory |
www.webdirectory.com |
--- |
| EuroFerret |
www.euroferret.com/ |
--- |
10 |
Yes |
| Excite |
www.excite.com |
AND,OR,(),NOT,,", |
20 |
Yes |
| Excite News Tracker |
excite.com |
AND,OR,(),NOT,,", |
10 |
Yes |
| Explorer-K-12 Math/Science |
unite.ukans.edu |
--- |
| Forum One — Online Discussion Forums |
www.forumone.com |
--- |
| Galaxy |
www.einet.net |
--- |
20 |
Yes |
| HotBot |
hotbot.com |
--- |
100 |
Yes |
| HotBot Advanced |
www.hotbot.com |
AND,OR,(),NOT,,", |
100 |
Yes |
| IBM Infomarket-Research Reports |
www.infomarket.ibm.com |
--- |
15 |
Yes |
| Inference FIND |
www.inference.com/infind/ |
AND,OR,(),NOT,,",* |
No |
| Infohiway |
www.infohiway.com |
--- |
30 |
Yes |
| Infomine (Internet Enabling Tools) |
lib-www.ucr.edu/search/ucr_enbsearch.aspl |
AND,OR,(),# |
| Infoseek |
www.infoseek.com |
AND,OR,NOT |
50 |
Yes |
200 |
| Internet ArtResources |
artresources.com/search.aspl-ssi |
AND,OR,(),NOT,",* |
No |
| Jayde Online Directory |
www.jayde.com |
--- |
50 |
No |
50 |
| Lawcrawler |
www.lawcrawler.com |
AND,OR,(),NOT,NEAR,",* |
10 |
Yes |
| Librarians' Index to the Internet |
sunsite.Berkeley.EDU |
--- |
200 |
No |
200 |
| LinkMonster |
www.linkmonster.com |
AND,OR,(),NOT,",* |
200 |
Yes |
| LinkStar |
www.linkstar.com |
--- |
10 |
Yes |
| Liszt, the Mailing List Directory |
www.liszt.com |
AND,OR,(),NOT," |
| Lycos Pro |
www.lycos.com |
AND,OR,(),NOT,NEAR,", |
40 |
Yes |
| Magellan |
www.mckinley.com |
AND,OR,(),NOT,,", |
10 |
Yes |
| Mamma Search Engines |
mamma.com |
--- |
10 |
Yes |
| Metacrawler |
www.metacrawler.com |
--- |
30 |
Yes |
| Microsoft(r) |
www.microsoft.com/search/default.asp |
AND,OR,(),NOT,NEAR,",* |
10 |
Yes |
| Northern Light |
www.northernlight.com |
--- |
25 |
Yes |
| OneLook Dictionaries |
www.onelook.com |
--- |
No |
| Open Text |
www.opentext.com |
--- |
10 |
Yes |
None |
| Orientation.com — Asia |
www.orientation.com |
AND,OR,(),NOT,NEAR,",* |
| PC World Online |
www.pcworld.com |
--- |
No |
| PlanetSearch |
www.planetsearch.com |
--- |
10 |
Yes |
| Point's Top 5% |
www.pointcom.com |
--- |
10 |
Yes |
| Product Review Net |
www.productreviewnet.com |
--- |
No |
| PubMed — National Library of Medicine |
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov |
AND,OR,(),NOT,",* |
| Reference.com (Mailing List) |
www.reference.com |
AND,OR,(),NOT,NEAR,",* |
200 |
No |
200 |
| SavvySearch |
www.savvysearch.com |
--- |
| Science Fiction Review Archives |
julmara.ce.chalmers.se |
--- |
20 |
Yes |
| searchUK |
www.searchuk.com |
AND,OR,(),NOT,",* |
| Social Science Information Gateway |
/www.sosig.ac.uk |
AND,OR,NOT,* |
| Spry Internet Wizard |
www.sprynet.com |
--- |
No |
| Surf Point |
www.surfpoint.com |
--- |
30 |
Yes |
| The Sporting News |
www.sportingnews.com |
--- |
| The United Nations |
www.un.org |
--- |
| Time Magazine Online |
www.pathfinder.com/time |
--- |
10 |
Yes |
| WebCrawler |
www.WebCrawler.com |
AND,OR,(),NOT,,", |
25 |
Yes |
| WebCrawler News |
search.excite.com/wc |
AND,OR,(),NOT,,", |
25 |
Yes |
| What's New Too! |
newtoo.manifest.com |
--- |
25 |
Yes |
| Windows 95 Magazine Search |
www.win95mag.com |
--- |
No |
| World Wide Arts Resources |
world-arts-resources.com |
',# |
No |
| WWW Virtual Law Library |
www.law.indiana.edu |
--- |
20 |
| WWW Virtual Library-US Government Information |
iridium.nttc.edu |
--- |
100 |
| WWWomen |
www.wwwomen.com |
--- |
| Yahoo |
search.yahoo.com |
--- |
20 |
Yes |
Varies |
| Yahooligans |
www.yahooligans.com |
--- |
25 |
Yes |
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