| Indexes | Index every word on Web every site; may return many irrelevant hits if you search for common words. Use these if you are looking for specific words. |
| AltaVista | InfoSeek | Lycos | Webcrawler (The original "crawler", not as comprehensive any more, and slow) | |
| Subject directories | These categorize Web sites into subject areas, so the content of sites has been screened. You can search the categories for key words. Use these if you are looking for a specific subject. Good for browsing a category. |
| Excite | Inktomi | Yahoo | |
| Reviews of sites | These review and categorize Web sites |
| Yahoo Internet Life (a spin-off of Yahoo; also a magazine) | |
| Search site list | Search a categorized list of 200 search sites |
| Newsgroups | Search newsgroups, also called Usenet or network news
Dejanews |
| People |
Four11:
Search for people, hopefully with E-mail addresses
LookUP! E-mail addresses Switchboard is a white pages phone book for the U.S., with E-mail addresses of people who have registered them US West phone book |