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Evaluations of Searchable Indices

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ALIWEB

Archie-Like Indexing of the Web
Attributes: Searchable Database of General Information
Timestamp: Jan. 95
Span: 6,000 Web, Gopher, and FTP documents
Access: Free and unlimited access
Evaluation: * *

URL for Front Page: http://web.nexor.co.uk/public/aliweb/aliweb.html
URL for Forms Search Pages:

Home Organization: Nexor, United Kingdom

Alta Vista

Alta Vista
Attributes: Searchable Database of General Information
Timestamp: Current
Span: The fulltext of 21 Million Web documents and 13,000 newsgroups
Access: Free and unlimited access
Evaluation: * * * * *

Key Links

URL for Front Page: http://www.altavista.digital.com/
URLs for Search Pages: Home Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).

Deja News

Deja News Research Service
Attributes: Searchable Database of Usenet Archives
Timestamp: Current
Span: The fulltext of 11,500 Usenet newsgroups since March 1995
Evaluation: * * * * 1/2

URL for Front Page: http://www.dejanews.com/
URLs for Search Pages:

Home Organization: Deja News Research Service

excite! NetSearch

excite! NetSearch
Attributes: Searchable Database of General Information
Timestamp: Current
Span: The fulltext of 11.5 Million Web documents and 10,000 newsgroups
Access: Free and unlimited access
Evaluation: * * *

URL for Front Page: http://www.excite.com/
URL for Forms Search Page: http://www.excite.com/
Home Organization: Architext Software
Related Services: excite NetReviews

Lycos Search

Lycos, Inc. - The Catalog of the Internet
Attributes: Searchable Database of General Information
Timestamp: Current
Span: The fulltext of 5 Million Web documents
Access: Free and unlimited access
Evaluation: * * * *

URL for Front Page: http://www.lycos.com/
URLs for Search Pages:

Home Organization: Originally created at Carnegie-Mellon University, Lycos is now its own corporation.
Related Services: Lycos A2Z, Point Survey

Open Text

Open Text Index
Attributes: Searchable Index of General Information
Timestamp: Current
Span: The fulltext of 5 Million Web documents
Access: Free and unlimited access
Evaluation: * * * * 1/2

URL for Front Page: http://www.opentext.com/omw/f-omw.html
URLs for Forms Search Pages:

Home Organization: Open Text Corporation

CUI W3 Catalog

CUI W3 Catalog
Attributes: Searchable Index of General Information
Timestamp: Apr. 95
Span: Over 12,500 Web documents
Access: Free and unlimited access
Evaluation: * 1/2

URL for Front Page: http://cuiwww.unige.ch/W3catalog/README.html
URL for Forms Search Page: http://cuiwww.unige.ch/w3catalog
Home Organization: Centre Universitaire d'Informatique (CUI) and the Software Composition Group (SCG), University of Geneva, Switzerland

GNA Meta-Index

Globewide Network Academy's Meta-Index
Attributes: Searchable Index of GNA and user-suggested documents
Timestamp: Current
Span: Several thousand Web documents
Access: Free and unlimited access
Evaluation: *

URL for Front Page: http://www.gnacademy.org:8001/uu-gna/
URLs for Top-Level Pages:

URLs for Non-Forms Search Pages: Home Organization: Global Network Academy (GNA), a consortion of educational and other institutions.

InfoSeek

InfoSeek
Attributes: Searchable Catalog of General Information
Timestamp: Current
Span: Over 1 Million Web pages, 10,000 Usenet groups, and numerous other online resources.
Access: Free searching across limited databases. Registered, paying users have additional options.
Evaluation: * * * 1/2

URL for Front Page: http://www.infoseek.com/
URL for Forms Search Pages:

Home Organization: InfoSeek Corporation

Inktomi

Inktomi Web Services
Attributes: Searchable Catalog of General Information
Timestamp: Current
Span: The fulltext of 2.8 Million Web documents
Access: Free and unlimited access
Evaluation: * * *

URL for Front Page: http://inktomi.berkeley.edu/
URL for Forms Search Page: http://inktomi.berkeley.edu/query.html
Home Organization: Network of Workstations (NOW) project, University of California, Berkeley

JumpStation

JumpStation and JumpStation II
This service has been discontinued

Attributes: Searchable Database of General Information
Timestamp: Apr. 94
Span: Over 275,000 Web documents
Access: Free and unlimited access
Evaluation: -

URL for Front Page: Discontinued
URL for Search Page: Discontinued
Home Organization: University of Stirling, United Kingdom

WebCrawler

WebCrawler
Attributes: Searchable Index of General Information
Timestamp: Current
Span: Over 420,000 Web documents
Access: Free and unlimited access
Evaluation: * * 1/2

URL for Front Page: http://webcrawler.com/
URL for Forms Search Page: http://webcrawler.com/
URL for Non-Forms Search Page: http://webcrawler.com/cgi-bin/WebQuery
Home Organization: Originally created at University of Washington in Seattle, WebCrawler is now owned and operated by America Online, Inc.

WWW Worm

World Wide Web Worm
Attributes: Searchable Index of General Information
Timestamp: Current
Span: Unknown
Access: Free and unlimited access
Evaluation: * *

URL for Front Page: http://wwww.cs.colorado.edu/wwww/
URL for Forms Search Page: http://wwww.cs.colorado.edu/wwww/
URL for Help Page: http://wwwmcb.cs.colorado.edu/home/mcbryan/WWWWintro.html
Home Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder

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