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Searchers & Databases
Business Directions International

http://www.business.com.au/

An Internet search directory using numerous search engines to find business sites on the Internet.

Business Researcher's Interests

http://www.brint.com/interest.html

Provides more than 2,800 sites relevant to contemporary organizational issues concerning information processes, information systems, and information technology. Categories include electronic markets, organizational learning, emerging organizations, WWW design, and journals and magazines.

College and University Home Pages

http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html

Provides links to the Web pages of more than 750 colleges and universities around the world. Allows you to search alphabetically or just browse.

COMMA Hotlist Database

http://arachnid.cm.cf.ac.uk/htbin/AndrewW/Hotlist/hot_list_search.csh

Provides a graphical, searchable Web database. Choose your search criteria from their list, and then it searches and gives you an output list. Also enables you to add your own hot list to the database.

Database Demos

http://bristol.onramp.net/

Shows you how to set up your Oracle-based database management system (DBMS) for access via the Web. Good for creating your own search engine or providing Web access to large bodies of information.

Explorer

http://www.rtis.com/explorer/

Serves as a search site for finding resources on the Internet. Arranges areas by subject.

Four11 White Page Directory

http://www.Four11.com/

Enables you to search for people and their e-mail addresses and Web pages. Contains more than 5.5 million listings. Allows you to register and put your name on the directory.

High Performance Cartridges

http://www.netpoint.net/hpcart/hpcart.html

A re-manufacturer of laser toner cartridges for large institutional settings. Also provides a search engine, a database of shareware on the Internet, and other cool links with software to download.

Vanderbilt Library Index

http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/pubr.html

If you're looking for a publisher or vender on the Internet, this is the database to search. Search by name, subject, e-mail address, or geographic location.

Index of Australian Indexes

http://www.moreinfo.com.au/ausindex/

A meta-index of Australian Web site indexes. Over a dozen are described, with links to each.

InfoCafé

http://www.infocafe.com/

A complete bookstore on the Web. Members may order any book currently in print, or even books out of print, and InfoCafe will do the search. Books are indexed by department: for example, computers, business, fiction.

International Business Resources on the WWW

http://ciber.bus.msu.edu/busres.htm

Serves as an index of business, economics, trade, marketing, and government sites with an international focus.

Internet Pearls Index

http://www.execpc.com/~wmhogg

Features collections of the best of the Internet. Includes sections for beginners as well as comprehensive coverage of topics such as business, medicine, jobs, cinema, shareware, astronomy, futuristic technologies, fun, cartoons, comics, virtual reality, and more.

Internet Sleuth

http://www.isleuth.com/

Offers a collection of more than 500 searchable databases on a wide variety of subjects. includes links to a search form or a page that lists a number of related searchable databases. Also allows you search by keyword or browse alphabetically or by category.

InterNIC Directory of Directories

http://ds.internic.net/ds/dsdirofdirs.html

Contains an index of links to various resources, products, and services on the Net, including agriculture, the arts, business, dictionaries, education, health and medicine, religion, sports and hobbies, and weather. Allows you to add your site.

Lycos Home Page: Hunting WWW Information

http://lycos.cs.cmu.edu/

Provides a Web search engine. Contains more than 5.5 million Web pages in its database. Provides context for evaluating whether a document or page is relevant to your search.

Media Logic's Index of Economic and Financial Resources

http://www.mlinet.com/mle/

This index of resources is provided by Media Logic as a service for the Internet community. It provides a searchable index of data, news, and services that are of interest to investors, researchers, and other members of the financial community. Unlike many other Internet indexes, all entries here are subject to editorial review to ensure that they are useful, relevant, and current.

MediaTel's Newsline

http://www.mediatel.co.uk/

Based in the United Kingdom, an online information database used most often by ad agencies and media owners. Includes databases for subscribers and nonsubscribers, as well as links to "free daily media news."

Micro Service & Training

http://www.ici.net/cust_pages/jsouza/jsouza.html

This is a resource database for computer hardware, software, and training. If you are searching for hardware or software, or if you need training or consulting for your business or organization, you can search for it here.

Montana Communications Network (MCN)

http://www.mcn.net/index.html

A resource page for Montana events, businesses, and information. Includes access to businesses, real estate, and other Montana links, local newspapers on line, news and weather, classified ads, and more.

Mother-of-all BBS

http://wwwmbb.cs.colorado.edu/~mcbryan/bb/summary.html

Seeks to collect all Web addresses of all companies, universities, research centers, government agencies, research projects, and hardware and software announcements into one searchable database.

New Rider's Official World Wide Web Yellow Pages

http://www.mcp.com/nrp/wwwyp/

The online version of this book (with thousands of additional sites). Searchable by keyword. Obviously the most complete and useful search site available. (Talk about your shameless plug!)

New User's Directory

http://hcs.harvard.edu/~calvarez/newuser.html

Presents a large collection of links to information. Offers tips for specific kinds of computers (MAC, IBM, UNIX, and so forth), links to search engines, and more. Also provides information on how to create Web pages and download software.

NlightN: Finding What You Want To Know Now

http://www.nlightn.com

Claims to be "the Web's largest library of meaningful information." With a single query, the NlightN Universal Index searches the Web, World News, Online Databases, and traditional reference sources.

Planet Earth Home Page

http://www.nosc.mil/planet_earth/info.html

A search site on the Internet, organized like a library. Offers a library floorplan that you can use to browse the sites in its database. Also lets you search the database by keyword.

Publicize Your Home Page

http://www.ntg-campus.com/ntg/public.htm

Provides a collection of links to various search engines. Focuses on connecting you to the part of these search engines that allows you to register and add your own home page.

Searching the Web

http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HyperNews/get/www/searching.html

Provides information, strategies, and links to searching for information on the Web. Offers links to searching services, searching software, and searching references.

Starting Point

http://www.stpt.com/

Offers "everything you need to work the Web every day." Provides a starting site for finding information on the Web. Offers many links.

Starting Points for Internet

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/StartingPoints/NetworkStartingPoints.html

NCSA's comprehensive links to Internet resources. Includes Gopher, Veronica, Finger, Usenet, WAIS, and many others. Also presents representative Web home pages. Highly recommended (nay, essential).

URL-Minder: Your Own Personal Web Robot

http://www.netmind.com/URL-minder/URL-minder.html

Presents the URL-minder, your own personal Web robot, which retrieves your registered URLs regularly and reports back to you by e-mail when they change. The URL-minder also runs searches on Web databases regularly and lets you know when anything new that matches your search shows up. It also keeps track of the places you've been, so you can spend your time (and money) doing new things on the Web.

Virtual Libraries

http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Virtual_libraries/Overview.html

Offers links to collections of information, based on the subject matter of those sites.

VSL Front Desk at the OAK Repository

http://www.acs.oakland.edu/cgi-bin/vsl-front

Enter a keyword, and the engine searches the major Internet shareware archives for the program you want.

WAIS Access Through the Web

http://www.ai.mit.edu/the-net/wais.html

Provides information about WAIS, a system that enables you to retrieve documents from databases via full-text searches. Allows you to search by name or by topic.

Yahoo

http://www.yahoo.com

Possibly the most popular search site on the Web. Considered to be the place to go for anything, as long as it isn't too technically oriented. Offers links only to sources, which is different from something such as Lycos, which also searches directories and files themselves.