World Wide Web Search Tools
Web Guides - Search by Topic
Choose increasingly specific subjects, from
a series of lists.
Vancouver and British Columbia
Canada
World
Search Engines - by Keyword
Type in the exact word or phrase you are
looking for and all matches will be returned.
Vancouver and British Columbia
Canada
World
- Google - aiming for quality and quantity of links
- FAST - big, fast and less cluttered
- Northern Light - web
search and specialized reference searches
- AltaVista - simple/advanced search functions, usenet
newsgroups, boolean searches
Specialized Search Tools
- Liszt - mailing list directory with descriptions
and subscription information
- Deja.com - newsgroups and
usenet by subject or content
- Ask Jeeves - natural language search - ask a question,
get answers
- Oingo - meaning based searches
- Canada 411 - find telephone numbers and postal codes
from names
- Canada Post - postal code lookup from addresses
- News Links - newspapers and magazines
- Crayon - create your own newspaper from over 700
sources
- Botspot.com - bots and intelligent agents to automate
web activities
- Mapquest - display current North American road maps
Search for Web Databases
- Search Systems - 1510
Canadian and US
public records databases
- Direct Search - search interfaces not easily found through
search engines
- Jayde.com - directory of online databases and web
resources
Other Languages
- Buscopio - Spanish language search engine and online
directory.
Multi-Engine Searchers
- webtaxi - list of search engines, directories and
web guides
- Dogpile - searches a large number of other search
tools and returns results
- Multimeta - allows you to get email of results
- Search.com - to find other specialized search tools
- Search Engine Watch - search for a particular type of search
engine - descriptions
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maintenance
Revised:
April 17, 2001
