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Department of Computer Science

Yahoo is the "grandfather" of all search engines. It has arguably the largest search index around. It offers excellent, fast service for any search topic.
Lycos, like Yahoo, has a huge search index which allows for a quick response to any search. It also offers a unique a2z directory as an alternative search option. Find: lycos catalog a2z directory point reviews
Infoseek is also comparable to Yahoo and Lycos. It averages over 8 million searches and 30 million hits a day. It also offers an excellent personalized news service. Search for information about: in the World Wide Web Infoseek Select Sites Categories of Sites Usenet Newsgroups E-mail Addresses Reuters News Web FAQs
Digital's Alta Vista gives its users over 30 million pages found on 225,000 servers, and 3 million articles from 17,000 Usenet news groups. It's most popular use is for searching for business information. It won C|Net Award for Internet Excellence for "Best Search Engine" in 1996. Search the WebUsenet and Display the Results in Standard Formin Compact Formin Detailed Form
Webcrawler is the search engine used by America Online users. It offers a comprehensive, yet selective index of the World Wide Web. With daily updates to its search index, Webcrawler is able to give its users the latest information avaliable. Search the web and show titles summaries for 10 25 100 results
Opentext's mission is to "Put the Web to Work" for their users. Their search engine is nicely organized and attractive. Thougth their search index is not as large as Lycos, Yahoo, or Infoseek, it is sufficent for most searches. Search this site for pages that contain  this exact phrase: all of these words: any of these words:
GTE's Net offers a twist to the average search engine. It currently offers a menu driven search similiar to a graphical Gopher as well as the "run-of-the-mill" input search. It's graphics, style, and uniqueness made it worthy of mentioning. Match case Search for: 25 50 100 200 all listings Operator: and or Find matches in: Company / Listing, Category Treat items as: partial or complete words.
MCI's InternetSearch offers its users a more detailed submission form for search input. Despite being powered by Opentext's search engine, its submission form makes InternetSearch worthy of listing. Match this phrase exactly (...searching for River Phoenix only finds the actor)
The University of California @ Berkley's Inktomi was originally designed as a research prototype, but has recently lead to a commercial version. It offers fast responses to most searches. for words: Return 10 documents 20 documents 30 documents 50 documents 100 documents displaying results with Full Graphics Text Only Terse Text Only
If you are still having difficulties finding exactly what you are looking for, you may want to try C|NET's own list of search engines. It lists more lesser known search enignes than are listed above.
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