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The CUI W3
Catalog is a fairly comprehensive semi-automated
high-quality global index.
Our
ALIWEB is semi-distributed/autmated special global
index for the Web.
The popular Yahoo features a
hierarchically organised subject tree.
The
GNA Meta-Library is becoming more out of date as it is
maintained manually, but has got non-WWW refernces also.
CityScape's Global
On-Line Directory is one of any claiming to be the "the ultimate
Internet reference" soon...
DA-CLOD
is a database where anybody can add URLs. WARNING - It appears the service is no longer available
The
comp.infosystems.announce search engine refers to your local News system
for the actual articles (which may no longer exist).
The UK Index is a
manually maintained index of resources in the UK
Alta Vista has access to 8
billion words in 16 million web pages. It also has an index of 13,000
news groups updated in real-time.
The Spectre Searcher at Santa Cruz, California
is " a powerful and quick simple search engine with a database of
thousands of indexed Web and Gopherspace pages and areas".
Robot generated WWW Indexes
These indexes of WWW-based resources are generated by
robots, and therefore very complete, but are more likely to
find too much information.
The Lycos robot is probably the largest.
The
WebCrawler is smaller, but more up-to-date.
The comprehensive Harvest
Resource Discovery system has a demo database of WWW Pages.
The EInet Galaxy
also has a subject tree.
InfoSeek is commercial, but
have a limited free demo facility.
Open Text is
another big commercial database.
JumpStation
is an index in the UK, which is not actively maintained.
NlightN - "A Universe of Databases, News, Internet and more". Limited searches without registration, but registration is free.
If they don't help, the
RBSE URL Search, the Nikos,
These are not WWW-based, but may well be of interest.
The
Whole Internet Catalog is an up-to-date
copy of the appendix in Ed Krol's The Whole Internet Guide.
Veronica searches Gopherspace, but is very busy
and often gives far too many matches to be useful.
The
WAIS Directory of servers will find relevant WAIS
sources.
The
Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource
Guides has lists of resource guides.
ArchiePlex
is a full-featured
Archie
gateway for the web, and locates files on Anonymous FTP sites.
The Language List
and the
Free Compilers and Interpreters List should be obvious.
Our
Mac Software Catalog is a Web view of Michigan's Mac Archive.
The
IBMPC Windows Archive
is part of the
HENSA/Micros archive, and the
Unix Archive
is also maintained by HENSA in the UK.
You might also check out the
Virtual Shareware Library (SHASE),
with search engines for UNIX, Mac, Windows, DOS, Atari, Amiga etc.
There is no single good way for finding people on the
internet. The
NetFind Gopher uses a number of different sources
to locate people. This
UFN Search will find people in the X.500 directory.
You can query the
Internet domains database to look for organisations on the net.
For Internet related standards and proposed standards you
can use the
RFC Index Search and
Internet Draft Index Search
at NEXOR.
The Unified CS TR Index gives nice HTLM abstracts, and
Rick Harris maintains a WAIS database of
Computer Science Technical Reports.
The
SEL-HPC Article Archive contains databases on High
Performance Computing and other disciplines.
The
CIA World Factbook is the 1993 edition.
Alex is a Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet.
For questions or comments regarding our web service, contact
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