Alta Vista - Best for command searching. Offers the greatest control. WebCrawler - a search tool to help you locate information on the Internet. Yahoo - a Web index started by Stanford University. Web pages are organized into directories and subdirectories.
Users can submit their own home Web page.
Yahoo is likely to find fewer URLs that will match your search phrase, but the quality of hits will often be excellent. It is also the tool for searching UseNet, the largest information utility in existence. Veronica - a program for indexing Gopher servers. MetaCrawler - MetaCrawler is a World Wide Web search service developed in 1994 at the University of Washington. MetaCrawler differs from other search services in that it does not maintain any local database.