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Subject: Search Engines; some old and some new and more powerful.
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 20:31:04 EDT

Hi Folks:
Received the following WWW search engines list from one of my genealogy
correspondents. I have used some of the older engines from time to time, but
not the newer ones. You may find them helpful, especially if you are new to
the net.
Tom King, Sr. San Diego, CA.

Extracted from Information Outlook: Article by Amelia Kassel, April 1999,
outlines search engines:

Direct Search <http://gwis.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/direct.htm>;, searches
archives and library catalogs for requested topic.

AltaVista (<http://www.altavista.com>;, powerful and popular, good for
specific searches

Excite <http://www.excite.com>;, searches on broad, general topics

Dogpile <http://www.dogpile.com>;, searches through several search engines

Internet Sleuth <http://www.isleuth.com>;, searches 3,000
specialized online databases

MetaCrawler <http://www.metacrawler.com>; searches through several search
engines and sorts the results

Profusion <http://www.profusion.com>; lets one select the engines to search &
filters duplicates

SavvySearch <http://www.savvysearch.com>; searches several engines via one
query

HotBot <http://www.hotbot.com>;, user friendly, search by continents

Yahoo <http://www.yahoo.com>; contains 750,000 sites
Lycos <http://www.lycos.com>; general search engine

And our Carlsbad (CA) Library Reference staff mentions: <http://www.37.com>;
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