sealight.htm: fravia's light search engines page

Just copy this page onto your harddisk as c:\sealight.htm (or whatever), and then use it (after having edited anything you fancy) in order to perform EFFECTIVE searches on the web (and elsewhere). Check the complete

search engines and the various

how to search pages for more explanations and to acquire all the necessary skills.

NORTHERN LIGHT

(Click redball to perform your search)

Select: All Sources -- Search the World Wide Web & Special Collection

World Wide Web -- Search the entire World Wide Web

Special Collection -- 1 million articles not on other search engines

Usenet

You can of course search usenet switching the search engines above, else use the 'usenet dedicated' depositories...
http://www.dejanews.com/
This is where you can do many researches. Find a newsgroup that talks about your subjects first, then go there and refine the search by adding to or typing over the original search entry displayed in the query box.

Search Usenet For:
Select documents matching all any keywords.
Display hitlist in concise detailed format.

http://www.reference.com

Inference robots and scripts
(Scripts that allow you to query (almost) simultaneously more than one search engine: "The Intelligent Massively Fast Parallel Web Search")

Inference find search (This little juwel will produce an *.htm file with all found links in correct order)

Enter Query:
And click this redball:

MaxTime: seconds

Dogpile web search (Dogpile is the "summa" of the main search engines)

Search and then
Wait a maximum of Seconds.

Google (Very important inference tool because it has CACHED pages!)

Search the web using Google

All-in-one forms

(AV, EX, LY, NS, WC, YA, FT, FZ, IP image search)

(AV, EX, IS, LY, YA)

Search the internet for

search engines - heavy ~

Is reverse engineering legal?

[Search engines forms] ~ [usenet] ~ [inference forms] ~ [All-in-one forms]
Altavista	Yahoo!	Excite	Wwworm	Magellan	Lykos	FTP-search	Webcrawler	Infoseek	Hotbot	Northernlight

Describe what you want to find using Excite...
I want to search		Do not use query syntax in the search forms below
My search results MUST contain
My search results MUST NOT contain
My search results CAN contain

Display my results by document with	and	results per page.
Display the top 40 results grouped by web site.


Fravia's search forms and tools (version May 1999)	...	Daylight at the moment

Enter Query:	And click this redball:
MaxTime:	seconds

Over 100 million files have been catalogued by Lycos, now managing the famous Trondheim engine, and can be searched using either the lycos_ftp normal form or the lycos_ftp advanced form that you'll find below as well.