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SEARCH ENGINES
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Alta Vista
- Often classed as the biggest and fastest search engine, Alta Vista is especially powerful when their advanced search and refine search features are used.
Argus Clearinghouse
- A selective
collection of topical guides. That is, it offers a
large collection of links divided into categories
 ComFind
- This site is used to find commercial sites, for instance those related to fishing.
Direct Hit
- An excellent search engine that use the actual number of viewer hits to prioritize sites, somewhat similar to Google which emphasises the number of web site links to a site to prioritize it.
Dogpile Multisearch Engine
- An outstanding multisearch engine that allows you to find what you want quickly by searching most of the major search engines simultaneously.
EcoWorm
- A search engine the focuses on ecological issues such as fish, fishing and recreation, which can help narrow your search.
Excite
- One of the big four search engines. It nicely ranks results according to the percentage of your search terms that each listed site included. It uses channels to help you narrow your search. Another neat feature is that it will suggest words that you can use to help narrow your search, after you complete your initial search. One more unique feature from Excite is the ability to track news based on search terms you choose (News Tracker)
Fast
- Interest group search engines and indexes that has in fact grown very fast and provides quick access to categories such as sports. The outdoor pages are being developed and expanded.
Fish and Wildlife Service Reference Service
- A searchable data base that includes all of the reports written using Federal Aid in Sportfish Restoration (Wallop-Breaux) funds.
FloridaNetLink
- A new (1999) search index for Florida web sites.
- Go.com
- By most counts, GO.com is the second largest search engine and offers a subject category feature that can be especially useful for refining searches.
- Google
- The key to this search engine is an algorithm that weights sources by
how many other sites link to them on the theory that frequently linked
sources tend to provide better and more relevant content than other
sites.
Handy Links
- Handy Links is an index site that accepts submissions from various sources. You can look through an alphabetical listing of categories to find sites that interest you.
Hotbot
- Another of the big four, Hotbot has several very interesting features. For one, you can insert an URL and find all the links to it. This can be a good way to backtrack to other sites with similar interests. You can also refine your search to specific continents, modification dates or domains (e.g., .gov, .com, .edu sites). It is currently the best rated search engine by Cnet. They also drive the selective search on our home page.
KidsClick
- A search engine for kids from Berkeley University.
Link Florida
- A developing site featuring Florida links by category.
Lycos
- Another true search engine it has a reputation of returning broken links, but Lycos Pro which is accessible from their main page has some nice features.
Magellan
- Like Yahoo this search tool is a catalogue, not a true search engine. It does a good job of reviewing sites for you and you can refine your search to only their "green light" category if you choose.
Northern Lights
- This one is somewhat unique. It not only searches the web but also printed journals. There is a fee associated with acquiring some of the results. Check their folders feature to enhance your search results.
OneSeek
- A somewhat unique source that allows you to select three other search engines to search simultaneously.
Scrub the Web
- A good search engine for up-to-date sites. It is purged every 90 days.
SearchKing
- A good search engine using simple key word logic and with a relevancy vote from it's users to help refine the search results.
Yahoo
- Yahoo remains one of the most popular search tools. To be listed in Yahoo sites are submitted (not automatically found by the search engine) and evaluated by a real person. They favor popular sites over the academic ones to some degree, but offer convenient index categories and automatically shift failed searches to Alta Vista, if Yahoo does not find adequate references.
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