They can be used for searching for information on specific subjects, or even people.
| AmiCrawler | A new searcher, specially for the Amiga |
| Alta Vista | Fairly new, but quickly gaining an excellent reputation |
| Yahoo | Many people's favourite, indexed by topic |
| HotBot | Another fast and effective favourite |
| FTP Software Search | |
| Lycos | An oldie but goodie |
| Webcrawler | |
| Deja News | Search of postings in 15,000+ newsgroups (less binaries) |
| Excite | |
| Infoseek | Search of the Web and Usenet |
| Open Text | |
| Point | |
| Savvy Search | |
| The List | 1500 Internet Providers by area code: searchable database! |
| The Phone Book | |
| The Yellow Pages | |
| Thomas Register | All North American manufacture |
| Internet Sleuth | 800 search engines |
| Archieplex | ARCHIE search front end |
| ARTECH | (filled with 800 pound gorillas) |
| Research It! | |
| World Wide Web Worm | |
| The Playroom | WOW! |
| Jumbo | 28,000 indexed and documented shareware packages |
| Virtual Shareware Library | |
| CUSI | |
| All-in-one Search Page |
Searching for people | |
| WhoWhere | A comprehensive listing of email addresses, home pages and much more |
| Amiganet | Search for Amiga owners (courtesy of Softwood Inc.) |
| Internet Address Finder | |
| OKRA net.citizen Directory | |