Surfing the 'Net is a bit like wandering through Venice. It's engrossing and charming. One can very easily lose track of time.

Search Engines

Side canal, Venice, Italy; August, 1996

• The Big Dogs
• The Ankle Biters
• Phone Directories

In my humble opinion, the first places to go for serious web-crawling.

The Big Dogs

Alligator, fresh water pond,
Big Pine Key, Florida; October 1995

• AltaVista (Advanced Search)
• Ask Jeeves
• Google
• Grokker
• MSN (Micrososft)
• Yahoo

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I have tried to be comprehensive, but does anybody really know everything that exists on the 'Net? (You might try Fortune City's "Some Of The Best Search Engines On The Net")

The Ankle Biters

Snapping turtle, fresh water pond,
Big Pine Key, Florida; October 1995

• All 4 One Metasearch
• alltheweb
• The Big Hub A directory of over 1,500 subject specific searchable databases in over 300 categories
• DMOZ
• GO.com (An ABC News site)
• Google Federal
• GPO Access
• Infomine Multiple Database Search Focuses on scholarly resource collections, electronic journals and books, online library card catalogs, and directories of researchers
• Look Smart
• Mamma.com
• Metacrawler
• Profusion
• Search.com
• Teoma "Search with Authority" (tm)
• WebCrawler
• All4One

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Directory Assistance costs too much. Log on to one of these 'Net directories instead.

Phone Directories

• Anywho
• Infospace
• PeopleSearch (Yahoo)
• SuperPages.com (Verizon)
• Switchboard
• USWest Dex
• World Pages
• Yahoo Yellow Pages
• Zip Code lookup (USPS)

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