• Special Purpose Search Engines
• Gopher Sites
• FTP Sites
• Archie (FTP) Search Engines
• Other Search Engines
• Critique, Analysis And/Or Evaluation of Search Systems and Internet features

Special Purpose Search Engines

Picons Search Searches for images on the Net or Web.

Search: Users & Domains; Search Newsgroups & Hierarchies; Demonstration Searches; Example Search Patterns; How to Construct a Search URL.

TimeZone Converter

Specify the time zone, time and date to convert from, and the time zone to convert to.

InfoSeek's FAQ Search Feature

Though Infoseek provides a high quality web search site, an option from its opening screen is to select a search of a large collection of the Internet's FAQ documents. Use the pull-down button just under the text search entry box.

USENET FAQ index

"This document contains a list of all USENET FAQs found in news.answers. The document is alphabetized by topic (more or less). Many of the FAQs in this list are presented in the same format as they appear in the newsgroup, while others have been further processed and split into additional documents. A few of the documents are provided in hypertext by the FAQ maintainers, rather than in converted plaintext. Those documents are shown with titles in italics. There is now a very limited search capability. This is not a full text search; only the newsgroup names, archive names, subjects, and keywords are searched. There is also a listing by newsgroup."

Virtual Tourist

An interactive map index to Web servers around the globe, by the University of N.Y. Buffalo.

List of registered WWW servers alphabetically by continent country and state. U.S. maintained Lists of Server Lists or WWW's By Subject Overview.

Organized by continent then country. Many touch sensitive maps to speed browsing; .

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Project Leader Mark MacCahill envisioned an Internet application that would be "the first Internet application that my mom and dad could use." It represented a major landmark in the development of the Internet. Several thousand public gopher sites remain in use today. These sites are well indexed and have their own search system called VERONICA for retrieving information from these systems. Today's web browser include gopher screen displays as a subset of their features, but software just for Gopher systems is also available.
• Understanding Gophers.
• What is VERONICA
• Search Gopher Space with VERONICA
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Before Web browsers and Gopher systems, one of the earliest systems of file distribution across the Net was FTP (File Transfer Protocol). You can browse FTP sites and directories at random but access is more effective if you use a search engine. The search system for FTP sites is called Archie. The next section below provides numerous Archie sites. Once you have found a file of interest by using Archie, you can use your Web browser to connect with the site and copy (download) the file.

 Web browsers greatly simplify FTP server use. Through Web browsers you can explore directories, read files, and download software, images and sounds. When you click on a text file it will display itself. Be careful with binary or program files: they will automatically transfer to your hard drive; large files can take a long time to transmit; and any program can transfer viruses. Have a virus checker on hand to inspect downloaded files before you start them up.

 Today there are thousands of FTP sites.

 

wuarchive.wustl.edu, one immense site.

Wuarchive is currently a maintained on a DEC Alpha AXP 3000, Model 400, generously contributed by Digital Equipment Corporation. Some claim that the wuarchive FTP site is the most heavily used in the world. It contains many gigabytes of Macintosh, Unix, DOS, Windows and other species of programs. All programs and utilities can legally and freely be downloaded (copied). Because of its heavy use, you may have to try repeatedly to get through. Only a preset number of connections are allowed at any one time.

 

Tom Czarnik's list of (almost) all FTP sites

Anonymous FTP sites, that is publicly accessible sites.

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Site Lists and Archie Search Engines

• ArchiePlex, "A Public Service provided by NASA Lewis Research Center."
• List of Archie Search Engines.

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Yahoo's Listing of search engines
Both mutli and single search systems.

 

Meta-Index of W3 Search Engines
Developed by CUI.

 

Experimental Meta-Index
Developed Mosaic's team.

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• Internet Scout Project "Surf smarter, not longer. Let the Internet Scout Project show you the way to the best resources on the Internet--then you can choose what's best for you. Librarians and educators do the filtering for you, reading hundreds of announcements each week looking for the online resources most valuable to the education community."
• Comparison of Search Systems List, maintained by Yahoo.
• The Awesome Lists John Makulowich, Internet trainer

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