PC-Resources (Internet Newbie

Alta Vista
AltaVista brings the Internet to your fingertips, helping you find the exact piece of information you're looking for -- time after time. You'll find AltaVista's power, scope, speed, and ease of use unmatched and unprecedented, which is why AltaVista is the search engine of choice for millions of Internet users.

Dogpile
Dogpile allows you to simultaneously send your search query to multiple search engines and present the results.

Excite
Excite’s patented ICE search technology gives you access to more than 50 million Web pages, 140,000 pre-selected Web site listings, and thousands of Usenet postings. ICE stands for Intelligent Concept Extraction, which means that when you enter a search query, Excite searches the entire Web for documents containing related concepts, not just the keywords you entered. For instance, when you search for "dog care," Excite will bring you pages containing "pet grooming," even if the words "dog" and "care" are not actually on the page. Excite also provides two features to help you make your searches precise: Search Wizard, which suggests terms that can help you narrow your search, and Power Search, which allows you to perform an advanced search, without even having to know what Boolean *means*, let alone how to use it in searching.

HotBot
HotBot allows you to find the information you need quickly, by searching the largest and most complete index of Internet documents in the world. When you submit a search query, HotBot quickly finds documents on the Internet that contain the words you specified. It then gives you a list of hyperlinks to the matching documents, plus their titles and content abstracts. You can browse this list to find documents that best match your needs.

InfoSeek
Infoseek reflecting on the different ways people search for information on the Internet, Infoseek has created two distinct search services: Ultrasmart and Ultraseek. Both services are powered by Infoseek's leading-edge Ultra technology and allow users to choose the right search mode depending on the level of assistance they need.

Lycos
With Lycos you can search, browse our TOP 5% websites, find pictures and sounds, use email, chat on newsgroups and download free software.

MetaCrawler
MetaCrawler differs from other search services in that it does not maintain any local database. Rather, it relies on the databases of various Web-based sources. MetaCrawler sends your queries to several Web search engines, including Lycos, Infoseek, WebCrawler, Excite, AltaVista, and Yahoo. MetaCrawler queries the other search engines, organizes the results into a uniform format, ranks them by relevance, and returns them to the user. Of course, this means that MetaCrawler is slightly slower than other engines, but is more likely to obtain accurate results for your query.

Open Text Web Index
The results are based on the number of times that the term searched for occurs on the page as well as where it appears. For example, if the term appears once in the URL, the page is ranked higher than one that has the term appearing once in the body of the document.

ProFusion
Customizes the search engines chosen for individual queries, filters results to remove duplicates and broken links, provides selective updates. Let ProFusion run your regular queries for you and tell you when there are new results.

Savvy Search
SavvySearch is a meta-search tool, designed to simultaneously send a your query to multiple Internet search engines and return the complete set of results. SavvySearch offers the advantage of a single location and common user interface for querying many diverse databases. While SavvySearch provides this convenient interface, you are also encouraged to visit the search engines directly, as each provides a unique and powerful service.

WebCrawler
The WebCrawler is a web robot. It is the first product of an experiment in information discovery on the Web. The WebCrawler can answer some fun queries. Because it models the Web using a flexible, object-oriented approach, the actual graph structure of the Web is available for queries. This allows you, for instance, to find out which sites reference a particular page. It also lets us construct the Web Top 100 List, the list of the most frequently referenced documents that the WebCrawler has found.