University of Zambia Medical Library

• Internet Search Tools: Metasites
  
• Internet Search Tools: World Wide Web
  
• Internet Search Tools: Listervs

• Beaucoup
  "billed as the 'ultimate source of free information', this site has subject based, annotated lists of links to search engines including health and sciences; includes a keyword search engine"
• DogPile
  "a meta-search engine that enables user to customize queries to up to 18 search engines and specialty search sites; includes links to numerous subject categories developed by Dogpile"
• Metacrawler
  "a tool to 'search the search engines'; this site queries many of the Web's top search engines and retrieves the best search results across the Internet and organizes them in a uniform format, ranking them by relevance."
• Perfusion
  "site features 'Intelliseek' web search engine that queries over 800 search engines and databases; results note search engine source; users can specify which search engines to include
• Pinakes: A Subject Launchpad
  "contains links or gateways to fifty plus subject or multi-subject www search engine sites; includes medicine, biology, psychology and veterinary science"
• WebPlaces.com
  "a comprehensive category listing of links to general and subject related search engines; topics range from computing and software to international and multi-searches"

• AltaVista
  "searchable World Wide Web index that ranks the sites in each keyword search"
• Excite
  "keyword and subject information retrieval tool that ranks over 100,000 reviewed Web sites"
• Go.com
  "keyword and subject directory of the World Wide Web"
• 
  "a search engine that uses a complicated mathematical analysis, calculated on more than a billion hyperlinks on the web, 'to return high-quality search results' that allows Google to estimate the quality, or importance, of every web page it returns"
• Hotbot: Search the Net
  "keyword and subject directory of the WWW; highly rated search engine"
• INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resources Collection
  "sophisticated keyword search index to 20,000+ "academically valuable resources" including databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, listservs, online library card catalogs, articles and directories of researchers; has "browse" features to author, title, keyword and subject indexes" "keyword and subject directory of the World Wide Web"
• Lycos
  "catalog of the Internet with subject and keyword access"
• WebCrawler Searching
  "World Wide Web search tool that indexes by content, titles and www address of sites"
• Yahoo!
  "searchable, browsable, hierarchical index of the Internet with keyword and/or subject access"

• CataList: The Catalog of Listserv Lists
  "catalog of public LISTSERV lists on the Internet"
• TileNet: Guide to List Servers
  "reference to Internet discussion groups (lists) and newsgroups; access via keyword search"

Last updated March 15, 2002