Search Engines and Internet Directories

Listed here are many different sites.  If you can't find it with these, it may not exist!

Listed alphabetically:

• 01WebDirectory
• 555-1212.com - Name, Address, Phone Number lookup
• About.com 
• AcademicInfo - Online Degree Information & Online College Search
• AltaVista - HUGE index with powerful and FAST search functions
• America Online
• Ancestry - search for family ancestors - U.S.
• Ancestry - search for family ancestors - U.K.
• Ask Jeeves - allows English-like questions
•   Bing.com - Microsoft's search engine 
• BizWeb - lists companies with information about their products and/or services
• Career Jet - job/employment search engine in the U.K.
• Career jet - job/employment search engine in the U.S.
• ComFind - source for everything that relates to public records or statistics
• Cool Site of the Day
• Excite- over 1,500,000 web pages (not web sites) in their database
• Excite NetDirectory: Southern California
• Go.com
• Google.com - the most popular search engine
• HotBot- joint venture of HotWired, publisher of Wired magazine, and Inktomi
• InfoSpace
• Inkel.co.uk - UK Search and Category Matching
• Intellius - Search for people - re-sorted OK
• IxQuick.com - searches 12 engines simultaneously, outstanding search relevancy, fast response.
• Library of Congress - main US Library of Congress page
• Lycos - One of the most popular robots
• Mega-Mathematics!
• My Virtual Reference Desk - Business
• My Virtual Reference Desk - Magazines
• Nerd World Media Internet Subject Index
• NetMall - selected by Point Communications as a Top 5% of all sites. Very fast.
• Patents Online - free patent searching, free PDF downloading, allows annotating documents and sharing them, and free alerts for new documents.
• Point Com - "It's What You're Searching For"
• Retreat Finder - Online directory of spiritual and healing retreats for individuals and groups. 
• Search.com
• SearchTurtle - Search Turtle is a human edited general directory. It takes pride in its strict guidelines for inclusion. Site submission is free.
• Spirit and Sky - the Definitive Spiritual Directory
• State of California government website - searchable site with links to all state agencies
• State of Washington government website - searchable site with links to all state agencies
• Stock Market Yellow Pages - search engine for public companies
• SuperPages - Online "Yellow Pages" - find local businesses
• Switchboard - 90 million individual listings and 10 million business listings
• Teaching and Learning On the Web
• The Rail - the eccentric folks at Glacier Software are building a railroad across the Internet
• THOMAS - US Congress Online
• UK Business Index - UK Business Directory
• U.S. Federal Government - New combined US Government site
• Wage Information - Australian wages, employment conditions, labour issues, taxation, salary surveys and resume services.  We also provide free information on wage and labour information in parts of Europe, US, UK, Canada, Asia and Africa.
• WebCrawler - one of the first, biggest and most important robots; owned by America Online
• Where2Go - search by any combination of business name, URL, address, city, state, zip, telephone, product, keywords, and more
• White House  - U.S. White House
• Yahoo - Big One, the Big Yahoona

Page updated: May 11, 2023 with the generous help of Nathan. 

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