For more information on a particular search engine click on its title. Alternatively, you may try one of the parallel search sites, where multiple engines are searched at once. This section also includes some "all-in-one" search sites, such as Search It.
For gopher sites, you could check out our Gopher Sites section.
In the final section, there is a list of other search tools and indices which are related to marketing and business.
| Alta Vista | Index of over 30 million pages found on 275,600 servers. |
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| Lycos | Like most Internet search engines, Lycos is a web spider. It follows links on the page it is currently indexing and remembers to visit them later. This makes for a lot of indexed pages very quickly. |
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| A Business Researcher's Interests | A searchable knowledge map of Contemporary Business, Management and Information Technology issues, targets business users and managers. It provides access to hundreds of journals, magazines, case studies, articles and papers. |
| The Open Text Index | Another Web index. |
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| Excite | It indexed some 50 million web pages. You can search them using the standard keywords, or use plain English phrases! |
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| WebCrawler | Designed to be simple and easy to use. Indexed less Web pages than other engines. |
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| Infoseek Ultraseek | Claims to be the "fastest, most comprehensive and most accurate search engine on the Web". |
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| Yahoo! | Yahoo is not a web spider, but rather a catalogue. All links are supplied by users, and get sorted into one or more of the hundreds of categories. |
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HK/ Asian Popular Search Engines
| Hong Kong WWW Database | A comprehensive list of Hong Kong web sites, categorized into over 60 sub-groups. |
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| Orientation | Orientation is a multilingual commercial directory dedicated to providing and locating Asian information on the World Wide Web. |
| Asia Guide | A search engine for finding companies and resources within Asia. |
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| inASIA | inASIA is a database of over 700,000 companies in some
22 Asian countries. You need to register
first in order to access this free service.
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| SavvySearch | A meta-search tool, designed to simultaneously send a query
to multiple Internet search engines and return the complete set of results.
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| Meta Crawler | Similar to SavvySearch, MetaCrawler sends your queries
to several web search engines, including Lycos, WebCrawler, Excite, Alta
Vista, Yahoo, HotBot, and Galaxy.
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| ProFusion | Profusion is part of the Data
Discovery on the Information Highway project. Formerly known as JayhawkSearch,
ProFusion is a meta WWW search engine which uses other search engines to
get initial search results and do further processing on its own.
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| Search.onramp.net | Again, an Internet search facility that bases its search
results on the results of a number of search engines.
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| Cosmix Mother Load |
The Mother Load is a searchable directory of web directories and search
engines. It has 3 search modes: The
Insane Search (the most thorough search), The
Web Search (a simplified metasearch), and The
Mother Load Search (a local directory search).
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| All-In-One Search Page | It is a compilation of various forms-based search tools
found on the Internet. They have been combined at the site to provide a
consistent interface and convenient search point.
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| Search.com | A collection of tools designed to find all kinds of information,
from Web sites to phone numbers to movies, and all points between.
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| Internet Sleuth | The Sleuth maintains an index of searchable databases, where most of
which can be searched directly from The Sleuth, simplifying the search
for information.
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| W3 Search Engines | W3 Search Engines is maintained by the Centre Universitaire
d'Informatique (CUI) of the Université
de Genève (University of Geneva).
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| Search It | Another all-in-one site with simple design and user interface.
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| Veronica | Providing access to information resources held on most (99%+)
of the world's gopher servers.
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| A-Z Gopher Index | The A-Z Gopher Index
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| BSN: Marketing | Kent State University's
Business Sources on the Net (BSN): Marketing
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| Business Resources | Business Resources is a gopher site maintained by the U.S.
Library of Congress.
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| Economics and Business Gopher Site | Rice University's Economics and Business Gopher Site.
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Marketing/Business Search Tools and Indices
| Hoover's | Company profiles for over 10,000 US companies.
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| PeerScape | Deloitte & Touche's
PeerScape is another financial information provider on the Internet.
For instance, it delivers industry
and company research.
This site is currently free of charge, but you need to
register
first in order to gain full access.
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| Who's Marketing Online | Who's Marketing Online
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| NetWatch Top Ten - Marketing | NetWatch Top Ten - Marketing contains some of the
newest and hottest informative sites related to Marketing. You could
also click here to access other NetWatch Top Ten Lists.
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| Guide to Electronic Commerce | iWORLD'S Guide to Electronic Commerce
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| Thomas Register | Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
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| The Internet Advertising Resource Guide | The Internet Advertising Resource Guide contains
comprehensive links to different advertising and marketing Web Sites.
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| International Business Resources | UNC's International Business Resources
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| International Business Resources on the WWW | This is a similar index to the one above. International
Business Resources on the WWW is maintained by Michigan
State University.
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| WhoWhere | WhoWhere: search companies on the Internet
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| Access Business Online | Access Business Online
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| Internet Advertising Resource Guide | The Internet Advertising Resource Guide
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| 100hot Websites | 100hot Websites
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| Webster Dictionary | Webster Dictionary: Definition of Marketing
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| The Otis Index | The Otis Index is a business-oriented search tool. You could
also check out their Commercial
Sites Index.
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| Marketing Resources | Galaxy's Marketing Index (General Products and Services)
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| Index of Business and Marketing Resources | EditPros' Index of Business and Marketing Resources.
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