Edited by Dr T. Matthew Ciolek
[Est. 1 Aug 1997. Page last updated: 5 Sep 2006.]
This document keeps track of leading information retrieval facilities of value/significance to researchers in the field of Asian Studies and Social Sciences. It is a part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
Please mail tmciolek@ciolek.com if you know of relevant WWW server not in this list.
[Parallel search in search engines covering:
The Web: Yahoo!, Lycos' A2Z, Excite Guide, World Wide Web Worm, WWW Yellow Pages, PlanetSearch, What U Seek, Magellan, Lycos, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, AltaVista, Excite & HotBot.
Usenet: Hotbot News, Reference.com, Dejanews, Altavista and Dejanews' old Database.
FTP: Filez, FTP Search and Snoopie!.(Only the first word in your query will be passed on to these search engines.)
News Wires: Yahoo News Headlines, Excite News and Infoseek NewsWires.
NOTE: The service was exceedingly slow in early Jan 2005.
]
[Parallel search in search engines covering:
Uses all major search engines for web and the Invisible web; 1,000 specific search engines;
searches in 40 differents languages;
clustered search results]
[The MetaCrawler is a free WWW search service. The MetaCrawler sends your queries to nine different services: *Google *Yahoo *Ask Jeeves
*About *LookSmart *Overture
*FindWhat . The MetaCrawler organizes the results into a uniform format, and displays them. With the MetaCrawler, the sorted list that is displayed can be sorted by a number of different ways, such as locality,
region, and organization
NOTE: The service was exceedingly slow in early Jan 2005.
]
[ProFusion supports Boolean queries. ProFusion is a meta WWW search engine which uses other search engines [Altavista, Excite, GoTo, InfoSeek, Lycos, Magellan, Snap, WebCrawler, Yahoo] to get initial search results and do further processing on its own. It supports Boolean queries and phrase searches, selects the best 3 search engines for users' queries and detects broken links]
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