Searching the World Wide Web

Today it is increasingly difficult to find what you are looking for on the Internet. Here are a collection of sites that offer a nice summary of information.

Comprehensive Search Facility

All-In-One Search Page. A comprehesive and efficient directory to most search facilities on the Web.

Resources Built from Manually Maintained Lists

These resources add new links when users send new addresses to the owner of the index. Thus, the quality of the index is influenced by the clientele, and more frequently used indices tend to grow faster.

Most of these sites contain both hypertext indexes (hierarchical lists) and the abilility to search the database by specifying a query.

Iowa Lodging Association.
Amsterdam hotels - Hotel reservations service in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Connected International Meeting Professional Association
Tour Iowa. Tour Iowa Online.
Towns Across America. A travel guide.
CopNet. Police related resources.
www.salventura.com This site provides public access to the most comprehensive resources available on the artist Salvatore Ventura and his architectural paintings.
Christmas Information
VRML Site
Incognito Cafe
Alexandria a great informative web site
Online Now. Free listings. Nice resource.
Yahoo!. A user-friendly, extensive index. Netscape now features Yahoo as its Internet Directory.
The Internet Guide to Bed & Breakfast Inns
ABC-XYZ Mall. Extensive Index of Advertising Broken Down By Sensible Categories.
InfoSeek. Provides free search of the Web plus for fee searches of several other databases.
CUI W3 Catalog
Starting Point
United States Network. A site for travel, dining, and shopping in the US
Iowa Counties. Iowa Counties
land.net - the one source for buying, selling and financing land.
IRED Real Estate Directory, Iowa: A nice list of real estate links
Floral Exchange.com A Good Listing of Florists
123link-Get a FREE listing in the largest categorized business directory on the internet.
The ALIWEB Database. This database requires more effort on the part of the site being listed than some of the other indexes, but keeps careful track of its links. This means that it will be tend to have few sites in its database, but more accurate information on the sites that it does include.
CCN. Index of Non-profit Websites
Iowa Division of Tourism
New Orleans
The Wide Range. Sites and searches that expand the mind and soothe the soul.
State of Iowa Web Page
Fredericksburg Lodging

Restaurants

Cornucopia: A Basket Full of Gardening & Culinary Tips

Robot Generated Databases

These databases are generated by various robot web searchers (many of the robots were developed as Computer Science thesis projects). Some of the databases also allow users to provide input.

The quality of these databases depends crucially on the specific robot software. They tend to be comprehensive, but also overwhelming in their detail since no human is organizing the data into manageable packets.

Most databases are searched by specifying a query. A few contain browseable indexes (hierarchical lists).

AltaVista Developed by Digital.
The WebCrawler Database
The WWW Worm. Voted Best Navigational Aid in the Best of the Web '94 contest. Take that with a grain of salt, though, since we don't know how representative the voting sample was.
EINET Galaxy. Contains both index and query abilities. Developed by a commercial vendor, so it tends to be complete.
Jumpstation
NIKOS. A joint project between Rockwell Network Systems and Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, to create a fast and friendly Internet Resource Locator.
RBSE's URL Database
Lycos. Comprehensive, but frequently hard to access due to large amount of traffic at the site.
Harvest. Not quite as comprehensive as Lycos, but much easier to access.