i have appreciated all the suggestions re: search engines and, have found many excellent leads ... certainly many more than i have been used to using as my own personal arsenal. here is a brief summary of what i have found ... and i know of course that this is incomplete ... and does NOT include many highly specialized search tools (say in the health area for example) ... i hope some of you find this summary helpful ... two very general and excellent sites that discuss search engines ... and list many are: http://searchenginewatch.com/ ... excellent site ... reviews, lists, etc. http://www2.hawaii.edu/~daniel/search.html some main focus searchers ... some are metasearchers ... ie, utilize a variety of search engines http://www.alltheweb.com/ http://www.directhit.com/ http://www.ditto.com/ ... need a pic for something? this is great! http://www.dogpile.com/ ... meta searcher http://www.google.com/ ... oogle at google ... couldn't resist! ... meta searcher http://www.internetoracle.com/ ... meta searcher ... http://www.askjeeves.com/ ... ask a question? (like who was buried in grants tomb!) http://web.realnames.com/ .... leads to realname products and more http://www.metacrawler.com/index.html ... big meta searcher http://www.northernlight.com/search.html http://www.yahoo.com/ ... yaHOOOO http://hotbot.lycos.com/ http://www.webcrawler.com/ http://www.altavista.com/ http://infoseek.go.com/ and two downloadable meta search engine tools that seem really interesting are bullseye of http://www.intelliseek.com and copernic at ... http://www.copernic.com comments about these and any followup, would be appreciated ... now all we need is the TIME to do the searches, right? ---------------------------------------------- 208 Cedar Bldg., University Park, PA 16802 AC 814-863-2401 Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/drober~1.htm FAX: AC 814-863-1002
