Searching the Web

New Spiders Roam the Web, by John December, offers a nice (if dated) overview of the subject.

Here are some ways of searching the Web:

World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue from the W3 Consortium.
Yahoo, originally from Stanford University. Now a commercial source.
Lycos, originally from Carnegie-Mellon University. Now a commercial source.
EINet Galaxy from EINet, a commercial concern.
Harvest from University of Colorado.
WWW Worm from University of Colorado.
WebCrawler, originally from University of Washington. Now a commercial source.

An interesting, largely self-contained, searchable reference is Encyclopedia Britannica Online

Current as of 19 July 1995. Please send comments to aisi@ics.uci.edu