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Useful Links for your net journey

This page was originally put together by a brilliant nethead,  it has a lot of interesting links to sites and tools on those sites that can be used to get the most out of the internet.  As you send us cool links we will keep updating it. 

Search Tools

Go to: Multiple Resource Types | World Wide Web by Subject | World Wide Web by Geographic Location | Directories of E-mail Addresses | FTP Sites and Archives | Gopher, HYTELNET, and Telnet Servers | Listservs, Usenet, and Discussion Groups |

A Variety of Internet Resources

The following sites provide searching or browsing of more than one type of service (World Wide Web, Gopher, Discussion Groups, etc).

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  All-In-One Search Page, William Cross
  A compilation of over 100 forms-based Internet search tools, grouped by category.
  The Argus Clearinghouse (Argus Associates, Inc.)
  Subject-oriented research guides (formerly The Michigan Clearinghouse)
  Internet Resources Meta-Index (National Center for Supercomputing Applications)
  Resource directories and indices available on the Internet
  Global List of Servers (WWW Virtual Library)
  Resources arranged by type: WWW, Gopher, Telnet, etc.
  Cyberlands Web Search (Online Marketing International, Inc.)
  A collection of forms-based Internet search tools, grouped by category.
  Internet Sleuth (Internet Business Connection ™)
  Choose from over 1500 searchable databases.
  SavvySearch (Colorado State University)
  Queries multiple internet search engines simultaneously.
  Galaxy (TradeWave Corporation)
  A guide to worldwide Internet information and services.
  Yanoff's Internet Services List, Scott Yanoff

World Wide Web by Subject or Keyword

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  ALIWEB: A resource discovery system for the WWW (NEXOR, Ltd.)
  AltaVista™ Search (Digital Equipment Corporation)
  The Argus Clearinghouse (Argus Associates, Inc.)
  The Awesome List, John Makulowich
  CUI W3 Catalog (Centre Universitaire d'Informatique)
  CyberHound Online (Gale Research)
  CyberStacks: WWW Resources Arranged by Library of Congress Classification Scheme, Gerry McKiernan (Iowa State)
  Excite (Excite, Inc.)
  Galaxy (TradeWave Corporation)
  HotBot: Powered by Inktomi™ (Hotwired Network)
  InfoSeek® (Infoseek Corporation)
  Internet Sites for Kids, (John Makulowich)
  Lycos: The Catalog of the Internet (Lycos™, Inc.)
  Magellan (The McKinley Group)
  MetaCrawler, Eric Selberg and Oren Etzioni
  MotherLoad (Cosmix Web Design)
  The Mother-of-All BBS (GENBBB), Oliver McBryan (University of Colorado)
  Net2 Library (Global Commerce Link)
  The Open Text Index (Open Text Corporation)
  SEARCH.COM (CNET Inc.)
  WebCrawler (America Online)
  Global Network Navigator (Global Network Navigator, Inc.)
  WWW Virtual Library (European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN))
  WWW Virtual Library (Library of Congress Classification) (CERN)
  WWW Yellow Pages (Macmillan Publishing USA)
  WWWW: World Wide Web Worm, Oliver McBryan (University of Colorado)
  Yahoo! (Yahoo Corporation)

World Wide Web Sites by Geographic Location

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  Global List of WWW Servers (Summary) (CERN)
  Global List of WWW Servers (With Descriptions) (CERN)
  The Virtual Tourist: Access WWW Servers by Map

Directories of E-mail Addresses

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  White Pages Services (Yahoo Corporation)
  ESP - Email Search Program (Mailbox Internet)
  Four11: The Internet White Pages (Four11 Corporation)
  Yahoo! People Search (Yahoo Corporation)

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Sites and Archives

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  ArchiePlexForm (NEXOR, Ltd.)
  FTP Search 3.3 (Trondheim, Norway)
  Interactive Archie Gateway, Maciek Kornacki
  Monster FTP Sites List, Brandon C. Long
  Tile.Net/FTP: The Reference to Anonymous FTP Sites (Shelby Group, Ltd.)

Gopher, HYTELNET, and Telnet Servers

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  Gophers and Information Servers (University of Virginia)
  Finding Gopher Resouces (Washington and Lee University)
  HYTELNET: Hypertext Access to Telnet Sites, Peter Scott (Northern Lights Internet Solutions)
  HYTELNET (Gopher Version) (Washington and Lee University)
  Gopher Subject Trees (Library of Congress MARVEL)
  Veronica Home Menu at UNR (Academic Resource Center, Leon County, Florida)

Listservs, Usenet, and Discussion Groups

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  DejaNews (Search of the archives of all Usenet lists for a particular topic)
  Excite (Architext Software)
  searches Usenet in addition to WWW
  Internet News Groups (CERN)
  LISZT, Scott Southwick
  Search tools for mailing lists and Usenet news groups.
  Search the List of Lists (Special Interest Group Mailing Lists), Vivian Neou

Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS)

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  WAIS FAQ (Ohio State)
  List of WAIS Servers (CERN)
  WAIS Content Router: Queries 500 WAIS Servers, M. Sheldon, A. Duda (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Comparisons and Reviews of Search Tools

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  Matrix of WWW Indices: A comparison of Internet indexing tools (University of Michigan School of Information and Library Studies)
  Comparison Among Internet Search Engines, Karen Campbell (Hamline University)