Web Search Engines

We are aware of the following Web search engines.

Google (www.google.com) ranks web site quality by the number of links to the site.

Lycos (www.lycos.com) organizes a very large index of web sites.

Simpli (www.simpli.com) attempts to qualify search terms that are ambiguous.
— If you ask for Java, do you want an island, a programming language or a cup of coffee?

Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com) uses hired “surfers” to create directories of web links.
— start at the top and narrow the choices as you go.

LookSmart (www.looksmart.com) utilizes a directory of web sites like Yahoo.
— well organized with a good interface.

All the Web (www.alltheweb.com) ranks web site quality by “crawling” through the web.

HotBot (hotbot.lycos.com) also uses web “crawling” for its listings.

Direct Hit (www.directhit.com) ranks its listings of web sites by simple popularity.
— number of hits and length of stay.

InfoSeek (infoseek.go.com) organizes and categorizes web sites.

Open Directory (dmoz.org) organizes directories of web resources.

Alta Vista (www.altavista.com) maintains one of the largest web indexes.