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Other Internet Search Tools

Last updated Jul. 12, 2023.
by Greg R.

In addition to the main Web search engines and directories, there are plenty of specialized search tools for email lists, discussion forums, reference tools, periodical articles, and more. A few selected tools are listed here.

Periodical Articles: Full text from Magazines & Journals; FindArticles; MagPortal; eLibrary (fee-based); Internet Library of Early Journals (six British 18th and 19th century journals)

Blogs (Weblogs) and RSS Feeds: Daypop
Feedster (formerly Roogle)
Trusted Blog Search Tool; Waypath; Bloogz
At Google, add filetype:rss (or rdf or rss.xml) to search term

Archives (cached copies): Sources for dead URLs and past versions (separate page)

Gopher: Veronica 2 (anyone remember gophers?)

Telnet Resources: Hytelnet used to list many telnet accessible resources
(no longer maintained)

Web-based Discussion Forums: Forum One (primarily a directory of forums); Board Reader (not refreshed recently); MessageKing (now defunct); Sometimes in regular search engines

Email List Directories: None are comprehensive and none search lists messages; CataList (Just LISTSERV lists); Tile.Net Lists; PAML (Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists)

Usenet & Opinion Searching: Includes Google Groups, Epinions, more (separate page)

Reference Tools: Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, etc. (separate page)

More Search Engines: Search Engine Colossus (many other countries); Search.com (subject collection of search engines); CompletePlanet (hidden Web databases)

For more information on many of these tools, see my articles:

The Blog Realm: News Sources, Searching with Daypop, and Content Management. ONLINE 26(5): 70-72, Sept.-Oct.. 2002.
Free Full Text: FindArticles and MagPortal. ONLINE 26(4): 54-56, July-Aug. 2002

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