Search Engines
an project

NOTE: Searching for people's addresses can be a disappointing activity. Databases are incomplete, especially for email addresses. This is partly due to people's desire for privacy which leads them to have unlisted phone numbers and to keep their email addresses off search engine and other lists.

1. http://www.people-search-global.com
2. http://www.infospace.com/ ... this people-database is updated four times a year.
3. http://www.switchboard.com/ ...
4. http://www.peoplesearch.net/ ...
5. http://www.anywho.com/ ...
6. http://people.yahoo.com/ ...
7. http://www.whowhere.com/ ...

1. UC Berkeley Recommended Search Engines
2. A Search Query (aka the words to use for a search) cheat sheet!

Our current favorites

1. http://www.google.com/
   
2. http://www.bing.com/
   
3. http://www.kartoo.com/
   
4. http://www.wolframalpha.com/

And some more to explore:

• http://www.gigablast.com helpful features: inclusion of date indexed and date last modified; Cached pages and links to the Wayback Machine; Includes PDF and other file types and cached HTML versions of these other file types; No advertising
• http://www.kartoo.com/ - A different engine
• http://www.raging.com/
• http://www.altavista.com/ - Alta Vista, the traditional model
• http://www.alexa.com/ - Alexa
• http://www.askalix.co.uk - A business/product search engine.
• http://www.askjeeves.com/
• http://www.crawler.de/ - German
• http://www.dejanews.com/ DejaNews - searches USENET only
• http://www.dogpile.com/
• http://www.webtop.com
• http://www.evreka.com/ - Swedish
• http://www.excite.com/
• http://www.fireball.de/ - German
• http://www.google.com/
• http://homeworkheaven.com/
• http://www.hotbot.com/
• http://www.infoseek.com/
• http://www.isleuth.com/
• http://www.lawcrawler.com/
• http://www.looksmart.com/
• http://www.lycos.com/
• http://megago.com/
• http://www.metacrawler.com/
• http://www.netguide.com/
• http://www.onekey.com/
• http://www.savvysearch.com/search/
• http://www.search.ch/index.html.en - Swiss
• http://search.msn.com/
• http://search.thunderstone.com/texis/websearch/
• http://www.searchuk.com/
• http://www.search-it-all.com/
• http://www.snap.com/
• http://www.spyhop.com/
• http://www.ukplus.com/
• http://www.viola.com/ - music/violas
• http://www.webcrawler.com/ -
• http://www.whatuseek.com/
• http://www.yahoo.com/