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Excite, from Excite@Home offers web-based mail, chat, message boards and advanced search options. The start point is the "personalization manager", which customizes the layout, and content channels you select. Choose from news, shopping, sports, horoscope and other services. Excite's search options include an adult filter designed restrict certain types of content and very detailed searchable categories. Look for multimedia content on excite including voice mail, voice enabled chat rooms,scheduled "concerts" and interviews, desktop radio, and a large searchable index of movies and videos. Excite's people finder is based on four core services namely a members directory, reverse telephone lookup, e-mail lookup and personal home pages. Excite maintains an extensive list of newgroups sorted by topic.For classifieds, job finder, auction, restaurant locator, and product finder, all in one place, go to excite.com.
Snap.com is a
search engine and more. Looking for free online mail, chat, message boards, e-mail lookup,
maps, an address finder, stock quotes, yellow pages, classifieds and online auction ? Even
if you're not interested in the whole deal, Snap customizes your snap page by associating
your snap login with the channels you select. Customize news, weather, sports scoreboard,
horoscope, and bookmarks. Check in with the snap guides to entertainment, shopping,autos,
health, sports, travel and the internet. Or check out the Multimedia links for
cartoons, games, movie previews, music videos and MP3's indexed by title and category.
Snap has "power search" features which allows you to filter your search results,
and more search categories than any other search engine. Look for the
"ivillage" discussion forums and the snap "picture finder", which does
a great job of locating pictures of almost anything, and provides the links to the sites
where the images reside.
Yahoo! is probably the most popular search engine and its links are built by users who subscribe sites. Your Yahoo! account is your gateway to free online mail, chat rooms, message boards, "live" auction and travel sites. Yahoo! has an extensive list of online games, classifieds and personals. Customize your Yahoo! page for TV listings, new headlines, weather, stock quotes, and sports scoreboard. Yahoo! mail has very advanced features including filters to block unwanted mail and a spellchecker. Use the online calendar to keep track of reminders, your thesaurus and zip code finder, when you're in trouble. Yahoo! does have an enhanced search feature and wide categories to search in. Tune into to Yahoo! radio for music sorted by category. Yahoo! intuitive Instant Messenger notifies you of an incoming e-mail and now supports live chat and voice mail. Yahoo! has a fairly extensive "how to" support for novice users including "how to add your site". Yahoo has an effective people finder and directory service, which can be viewed online or added to your e-mail client.
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Hotbot has a no frills, research-driven approach to searching the web. While there is the usual web mail, message boards, chat and "channel" content, the strength of Hotbot is its very advanced search capabilities. The result is a robust search engine. There are five core services. FTP search, supported by Lycos, allows you to search by file type. Find all your MP3 (music) sites that way !! Map search is a mapquest service which links a travel guide, directions and local city guide. Then elibrary.com is a research service, which produces content from a wide range of sources (you choose !!) including books, reports and news transcripts. Carreerbuilder network, is one of the largest job hunters on the internet. The fifth service is a domain search by category. Hotbot makes is very easy to subscribe new sites and find the newest links. Hotbot uses Dejanews (one of the largest newgroups index services) to help you find discussion groups for any topic. Hotbot has been consistently rated as a leading search engine and is the home of wired and suck magazines.
Want very fast, intelligent, absolutely no frills searching ? Google is pure and simple a search engine, which will find literally anything typed as plain text. No kidding !!
Search Amazon.com !
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If you looking for an advanced search engine, this is it !
Northern light is specialized fee-oriented search service. There are three main services.
The "special collection", which is extensive list of journal, books, newswires
and magazine articles, which you can search for a fee. The second service is "Current
News", which is a free real-time news service, archives articles from over 30 news
services and; "investext search", for ranked analysis of the stock market. Power
search and you can specify information sources, date range, and type of results. Nothern
Light also created "usgovsearch" specifically designed for searches of us
government sites. To take fully utilize Nothern Light, you'll need to become a member, but
you an still use some of its services for free !!
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Get the loot on literally anything computer-related including
jargon ! And lots of links. Best viewed with Netscape Navigator.
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Webring, from WebRing Inc and Yahoo, is directory service. Based a the concept of "rings" or categories, navigate to a huge number of links to personal web sites, classifieds, discussion groups, health, entertainment, computers and more ! Its great ! |
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| Go to itools to take advantage of the combined effort of the best search engines in one clean interface or choose a direct link to a search engine of your choice. Itools also hosts "find-it" and "research-it". Find-it opens a web search, software search (using shareware.com), people search and Deja News usernet search. Research-it is a dictionary, thesaurus, language translator,quote finder, map reference, currency converter, zip code tracking and bibliographical service ! Research-it also searches discussion groups but though "list" (rather than DejaNews). Itools is a one of the most comprehensive megasearch sites. |
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Have a question ? Ask jeeves attraction is ability to make a
request in plain text and get an answer. Look at previous questions and answers by
category, play a game or send an e-card. Askjeeves produces results from Webcrawler,
Yahoo!, Altavista, Excite and Infoseek in one interface and is one of the best known
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Want to input your search request into Yahoo!, Altavista,
Infoseek, Lycos and Webcrawler all at once ? Here is how !
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The big hub puts your favorite search engines, into one simple interface, then adds news, online mail, finance and sports. One key feature is the bighub specialty search engines, which allow you to delve into very specific search databases by subject. |
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For the best online tutorials sorted by topic. From cooking,
to music, health, gardening, pets, technology and fitness. And get a free e-mail address !
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| Looking for chat, discussion groups, online mail and guides on
just about anything ? Try out 4anything for computers, business, shopping and
entertainment. Get news, weather information, stock quotes and more ! Subscribe to
4anything's newletter. Take a look at 4anthing's complete list of sites !
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An enormous searchable index of research and scientific web sites maintained by several universities. The Virtual library is one the earliest index services on the internet and is respected for the high quality of its sorted content.
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