The World Wide Web is growing explosively, and will probably never be fully cataloged. These tools will help you find the topics that you are looking for on the Web.
Alta Vista provides simple and advanced searches on the largest Web index: 31 million pages found on 627,000 servers, and 4 million articles from 14,000 Usenet news groups. Because of the extensiveness of its database, Alta Vista excels at finding obscure bits of information virtually anywhere on the web.
A joint venture between Inktomi and Hotwired, HotBot is a full-text search engine powered by the Inktomi parallel-processing search engine. HotBot claims to index over 54 million Web pages and promises to index 100% of the Web and Usenet news and mailing lists. HotBot offers the ability to search by date, resource (Java, Shockwave, VRML, etc.) and location. It supports Boolean AND/OR/NOT and phrase searching. In addition, it provides relevance feedback with each retrieval. Below is the simple search form for HotBot, you can go to the original site for additional search options.
Infoseek offers two distinct search services: Ultrasmart and Ultraseek. Both services are powered by Infoseek's Ultra technology and allow users to choose the appropriate search mode depending on the level of assistance they need. Ultrasmart lets users to find sites, topics, news and more. Ultraseek offers what claims to be the fastest, most comprehensive and accurate search engine on the net.
Lycos is one of the oldest Web search sites, and one of the best Internet search engines in both quality of information and relevancy of hits. It is a comprehensive catalog of Internet with more than 50 million URLs. Lycos is a unique search site because it has large number of binary files in its database, including GIF, JPEG, wav, and MPEG files. It also indexes FTP archives and Gopher menus, giving its index greater depth than most other search engines.