 AltaVista
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Alta Vista is fast, but often provides too many hits. Use search hints and refine button to obtain better results. Give their "surprise" feature a try.
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Excite
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Excite is a large database that accomodates searches by keyword and concept. It ranks hits by relevance to requested subjects.
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Dogpile
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Dogpile meta-searches twenty different search engines. Users can put a time limit on the searches.
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HotBot
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Hotbot has a very fast and point and click interface. It has a small index, but is configurable.
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Infoseek
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Infoseek searches over a million databases for information about a requested subject. It can be searched by simply asking a question.
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Lycos
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Lycos is the first search engine to claim a comprehensive index. It catalogues web pages rather than sites and provides a wide variety of search options.
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Mamma
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Mamma is a meta-search engine that combines multiple search engines into one, similar to Dogpile.
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Maple Square
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Maple Square is a good resource for finding information pertaining to Canada.
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Northern Light
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Northern Light is a new search engine with particularly good results on searches for obscure sites. It's relevancy ranking and site desciptions are excellent
making it very useful for serious researchers. Besides serving as a search engine, it also includes the content of 1,800 publications, many of which are not
available elsewhere on the Web.
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Sympatico
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Sympatico is produced by Bell Canada and is a great search engine for finding Canadian content.
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WebCrawler
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Webcrawler is a great index for finding very specific topics.
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Yahoo! Canada
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Yahoo! Canada is a popular search directory for finding Canadian sites and information.
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Yahoo!
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Yahoo! is a large directory for searching the whole World Wide Web. It is one of the most popular search engines available.
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