Starting points for searching

• Search Engines: What they Are, How They Work, and Practical Suggestions for Getting the Most Out of Them (webreference.com)

• (was) Deja News (now run by Google) (Searches usenet news, not Web)
• HotBot
• Lycos, Inc. Home Page
  • Advanced Interface
• Rutgers Search Engine (Search Rutgers only)
• WebCrawler
• Yahoo! ("Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle")

• The Web Robots Pages
  • A Standard for Robot Exclusion (How to keep the above search engines from bothering and/or listing your WWW hierarchy)
• Robots Beware (Effective 1 Jan '96: "We attack back.")