Search Engines and Robots for
WWW and Internet
- For Everyday Use
- Indices and General Information
- Robot-based WWW Searching
in Japan,
including Kent Tamura's, Odin, ...
- Other WWW Searching in Japan,
including InfoNavi, ...
- Searching for WWW, including
ALIWEB, Nomad, WebCrawler, WWWW, RBSE, Peregrinator, SG-scout, WWWMM,
MOMspider, W4, and so on.
- Searching for Internet Space,
including Archie, Veronica, ArchiePlex, News Searcher,
Netnews Filtering Service, InterNIC, NETfind, and so on.
- Individual Search Engines,
including Lycos,
Harvest,
Glimpse,
JumpStation and
Fish Search for NCSA Mosaic
- Verifiers of Web Links
- Miscellaneous Search Engines and Exploring Robots
This section is for personal use. However, there is no reason you cannot
use it.
- A List of
Searh Engines in Japan
-
Search Engine Usage
(Japanese)
- Search Page
Directory (Japanese)
- WWW4 BOF:
Techniques for Distributed Web Searching
- Searching
The Internet
- SearchIT:
Northwestern College INTERNET Research Tools
- Information
Retrieval on WWW -- W3 Conf-J BOF
- SearchPlex,
contains forms for Yahoo, InfoSeek, Open Text, WebCrawler, Lycos,
CNN Interactive, DejaNews, FAQs, Movies,
Whois, Finger, WebLint and URouLette
- Netscape
Internet Search Page
-
A document on WWW robots, wanderers and spiders,
which contains
- Sites for
Searching the Net by
Internet Direct
- A Survey: Schwartz, et al.,
A Comparison of Internet Resource Discovery Approaches,
Computing Systems, 5:4, 1992.
-
Internet Search Engines and Search Engine Search
by Netscape Communications Co.
-- This page contains brief explanation of each engines.
- Yahoo Server
- FAQ subsections
-
Perl code to implement Robot Exclusion Standard
- Search Engine
Comparison: Summary (deleted!)
- Information
Retrieval Systems on the Internet (in Japanese), including
Archie, Gopher, WAIS and WWW (not mainly on search engines)
- Web Searching Tools
- Eòlas Internet
Search Page, contains forms of Lycos, InfoSeek and WebCrawler
Automatic Meta Search
-- Multi-server Search
Manual Meta Search
- Archie
-
Veronica: A search engine for Gopher space
-- Veronica is Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives.
- WAIS and Its Decendants
- PL Web
-
WWWeb to X.500 Gateway at NTT
- News-related Services
- InterNIC (including
whois,
host
whois
and RFCs)
- Netfind
- NETfind
lookup (login as netfind)
- Netfind papers
- Schwartz, M. F., and Tsirigotis, P. G.:
Experience with a Semantically Cognizant Internet White Pages Directory Tool,
J. Internetworking: Research and Experience, 2:1, 23-50, Mar. 1991.
- Schwartz, M. F., and Pu, C.:
Applying an Information Gathering Architecture to Netfind: A White Pages Tool for a
Changing and Growing Internet, University of Colorado CS Dept. Technical Report,
CU-CS-656-93, December 1993.
- Smart
Searchers -- An article on multiple database search engine
Lycos is a search engine being developed by
Cenger for Machine Translation,
Carnegie Mellon University.
Harvest was designed by and built by the Internet Research Task Force Research
Group on Resource Discovery (IRTF-RD), supported primarily by
the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
JumpStation is a robot-based search engine, and was developed by J. Fletcher.
Fish serarch is a robot-based search engine for
NCSA
Mosaic
Verifiers that searches wrong links are given.
See also:
[WWW page (parent page)],
[Home (E)],
[Home (J)].
Acknowledgment:
The sources of the information are the WWW FAQ,
Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine 1:5, and
the Harvest home page, and so on.
Y. Kanada (Send comments
to kanada@trc.rwcp.or.jp)
Created: 10/19/94, Modified: 11/5/97.
A Brief Introduction to WWW Search Engines
(in Japanese)