Excite
- the intelligent way to navigate the net, 11 million web pages, 1 million articles from 10,000 news groups, search classified ads
EZ Find
- enter keywords to search for on the Net, and then submit them in turn to several search engines without having to retype them
Galaxy
- a guide to worldwide information and services provided as a public service by TradeWave Corporation
InfoSeek
- Web FAQs, Web sites and Usenet newsgroups
Inktomi
- the first fast web indexer with a large database
inSites Search
- index of ranked and reviewed web sites, using your search engine of choice
Internet Search
- searching the Internet is simple, from MCI
Internet Sleuth
- 1,000 searchable databases on the Internet on a wide variety of subjects
LinkSearch
- offers access to 34 separate Internet URL databases as well as ftp and Gopher sites
LinkStar
- the most accurate search on the Internet
Lycos
- complete guide to the Internet, including the largest catalog of URLs and a
directory of the most popular sites, also has the
a2z and
Point searches
Magellan
- lists 1.5 million web sites, 40,000 with reviews
MetaCrawler
- a multithreaded search site that can take your search terms and simultaneously feed them to various sites, then eliminates duplicates and collates the results
Mother Load
- a directory of directories, search engines, organized into categories and with three different depths of searches
NetLocator
- enter search parameters once and jump to many search engines, the search for quick access to results
Open Text
- searches every word of every Web page the company has indexed, some 21 billion words and phrases in all
Savvy Search
- a meta-search site that lets you compile results from 23 different Web search engines
Search.com
- from c|net, 250 different ways to search the Internet, organized into 20+ topics
Starting Point
- centralized Web searching tool and subject-oriented Web resources for an organized starting point
W3 Search Engines
- some of the most useful search engines for Software, People, Publications, News/FAQs and Documentation
Web Search
- lets you use Yahoo, Lycos, Infoseek Guide, Inktomi, Open Text and more
WebCrawler
- lightning fast Web search, also the Top 25 is a list of the most frequently linked URLs on the Web
WWW Launchpad
- a listing of the best search engines out there today
NetPages
- a directory of Internet addresses of individuals and businesses either on the Internet or reached through an Internet gateway.
OKRA - net.citizen Directory Service
- A freely searchable database of over 5.3 million (and growing) email addresses. Search keywords can be email addresses, names, organizations, and hostnames.
People Finder
- Are you looking for someone? An old friend? A lost love? Someone from the past?
PeopleSearch by W3COM
- All-in-one Directory Service that allows you to search and display from multiple search engines.
Switchboard
- free nationwide residential and business directory.
Usenet Addresses Service (MIT)
- service, previously accessible only via mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu, allows searches of over 4 million e-mail addresses by name and by organization.
Quite frankly the easiest way to find an e-mail address is to just call the person on the telephone and ask for it. No fiddling around with trying to search the Internet.
Bigfoot
- the global e-mail directory for the online community
CMC Information
- links to over 25 personal home page lists and directories including the Internet
Four11
- one of the largest white page directory with over 5 million listings
Internet Address Finder
- 4 million entries, the easiest and most comprehensive e-mail white pages on the Internet
Knowbot
- meta-server that searches up to nine various Internet directory services to find someone's street address, e-mail address and phone number
OKRA
- one of the largest white pages services with 5.3 million e-mail addresses
RTFM Usenet-Addresses
- send e-mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the lines help and send usenet-addresses/help in the message body, this list of e-mail addresses at MIT is from the Usenet newsgroup postings and gives you the date it was last used
RTFM Web
- Web access to RTFM, allows searches of over 4 million e-mail addresses by name and by organization, it also has links to over 2000 local e-mail directories, phonebooks, and homepage indexes
Switchboard
- look up over 90 million people or 10 million businesses and get addresses and phone numbers
Whois
- Web interface to the InterNIC Whois database
WhoWhere
- directory of e-mail addresses, individual and company URLs, phone numbers, and street addresses from around the world
Yahoo Maps
- enter an address, city, state, and zip code, the intersection of two streets, a street name, or a city name, and get a map of your query that allows you to zoom in/out and move around
Yahoo People
- find telephone numbers, e-mail addresses or home pages by entering a search form
One way to find a business on the Internet is to enter the company name in the form http://www.companyname.com/, this sort of wild guess has worked for me in the past
AT&T Toll Free
- search toll free numbers (1-800 and 1-888) by name or by multiple criteria (name, city, state and category)
BigBook
- a Yellow Pages directory of 11 million U.S. businesses with nationwide street-level maps, third-party reviews and customer ratings
BigYellow
- from NYNEX, 16 million businesses listed in the U.S.A.
Central Source Yellow Pages
- claims to list every business in the U.S.A., find companies, phone numbers, products, services, brand names and websites
GTE SuperPages
- Yellow Pages directory of 10 million U.S. businesses and database of more than 50,000 of the most popular Web sites
Telephone Directories
- links to online telephone, fax and business directories from around the world
WWW Yellow Pages
- New Riders World Wide Web yellow pages, 10,000 entries
World Yellow Pages Network
- world-wide database of over 105 million business listings, free home page for business and individual use
Patent Search
- perform patent searches and access information on the patent process
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