SuperLinux Encyclopedia - Searching the Internet

SuperLinux Favorites:

• AltaVista Search - Advanced Query
• Deja News - Power Search (searches Usenet)
• AltaVista (home page)
• Deja News (home page; searches Usenet)
• Open Directory Project  At mozilla.org. Goal: "the largest human-edited directory of the Web"

Linux-specific:

• Also see Linux software or Linux sites
• searchlinux.com  Replacement for DejaNews, but faster and Linux-only. Searchable and browsable.
• 1stLinuxSearch.com  Linux-specific searching.
• Google Linux-only searcher (A smart Linux-web-page searcher.)
• LinuxStart  "Think of us like Yahoo, but for Linux!"

non-"meta" Internet Searchers:

• Ask Jeeves (ask it questions in Natural English)
• ComputingSite "The Knowledge Search Engine"
• Education World (tm) Search Engine
• Electric monk (ask it questions in Natural English)
• Euroferret
• EuroSeek
• Excite Home
• FTP Search
• Google  At Stanford U.; run by Linux.
• HandiLinks (inet searcher)
• HotBot (Wired's searcher)
• The Index
• Inquiry
• InfoSeek
• Lycos
• Lycos Custom Search
• Magellan Internet Guide
• MetaCrawler
• Nerd World (has a Linux sub-site with long alphabetic list of links)
• Northern Light
• Marc Perkel's All in One Search
• OpenGRiD  Open Global Ranking Search Engine and Directory; User-aided page ratings.
• Reference.COM (NG, forums, etc. searcher)
• SavvySearch _
• Scour.net "Internet Media Guide" (allows searching for images, video, & audio)
• Surf Point
• Starting Point (net searcher)
• WebCrawler Searching

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  "Meta" Internet Searchers:
• All-in-One Search Page
• Dog Pile (>20 searchers)
• Onramp
• ProFusion Meta Web Search (and " Profusion Meta OPAC Search", whatever that is.)

Other Searching:

• Affordable Patent Searching
• The Argus Clearinghouse
• COMPUTER SERVICES (many links)
• The Dialog Corp. (major on-line info co.; was Knight Ridder)
• The Open Text Index
• TradeWave Galaxy

Misc:

• DejaSearch  Gizmo to download offline-browsable search results.

tbd: I need to check each link to verify "meta"ness and to give each a short blurb.

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