Searching for information on the Web

Search engines and directories

UK / Europe

• The Academic Directory at HENSA
• BUBL
• European Search Engines, Directories and Lists
• GoogleUK
• KnowUK
• Lycos UK
• Search UK
• UK Index
• Yahoo UK
• Yellow pages
• UK Plus
• Mirago
• BBC Webguide

Global

• AltaVista
• Excite
• Google
• HotBot
• ixquck
• Lycos
• Metacrawler
• Yahoo
• Alltheweb

Searching services

• Internet Information Research

About searching, and collections of search engines

• Help with Searching - from BUBL
• Finding Information on the Internet -- a tutorial from University of California, Berkley (includes instructions for using Yahoo, Excite, HotBot and others
• Sink or Swim : Internet Search Tools and Techniques
• Search Engine Tutorial from Northern Web (Idaho, USAO
• Internet Tools Summary - John December
• W3 Search Engines - from CUI, University of Geneva
• W3 Search Engines - from the University of Leeds