Top Ten Search Engines and Directories


Altavista Currently the most complete search engine around on the Internet, allowing you to search for any word in 16 million documents or in a few weeks Usenet postings.
Yahoo The best hierarchical directory of the internet - perfect if you want to find sites on any subject under the sun.
Lycos The first really big search engine that let you search for a word or phrase, and still worth a visit - vies with Altavista for whom has the more web pages.
Four 11 White Page Directory Millions and millions of email addresses. Great if you want to find someone you've lost touch with, although sometimes doing a search on one of the engines will give you just as good results.
Telephone Directories on the Web Proving there is a real world out there - a list of the various public telephone directories on the web, among the best is the Belgian white pages.
City.Net If you plan on travelling somewhere, anywhere, in the world, and you want to find out general tourist information before you go, then you could a lot worse than try out City.Net
All-in-One Search Page Want to spend some time egosurfing, well you could do worse than starting here.
1995 GNN Best of the Net Winners What the people in GNN thought were the best web sites of last year - and a nice selection it is too.