Murphy's Search Desk


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INDEX
Q_Srch| General Search Engines| Description
(?)Alta Vista Popular, general - Robot - 31 million pages
(?)DejaNews Newgroups, Usenet
(?)Excite Searches 11.5 million Web
Four 11 White Pages For e-mail addresses
(?)HotBot Robot - maybe 50 million Web documents
(?)InfoSeek Excellent searches
Infoseek (ultra) Alternative to above
Infospace World Wide Yellow Pages
Liszt Directory of e-Mail Discussion Groups
(?)Lycos Large robot linked to summaries
(?)Magellan Excellent for reviews / web summaries
(?) Medline Medical papers and news
(?) UK Index UK specific
UK Yellow Pages Yellow page directory (UK)
(?) WebCrawler One of the quickest
Whois at Internic Second level domain names
World Wide Web Worm Search URL references
(?) Web Wombat Australian site for Australian searches
Whats New from Internet Magazine
(?) What's New Too! What's New, with summaries of new Web sites (mainly Europe)
World Health Org. World Heath Organisation's search page
(?) Yahoo Popular - The best tree-structure search
Yahoo - UK and Ireland UK and Irish topics
Yahoo Business and Economy Companies
YahooBusiness and Economy - Business Directory

Q_Srch| Multiple Search Engines| Description
EZ-Find at the River Choose your engine and search
(?) Internet Sleuth Searches 10 other search engines at once
(?) MetaCrawler Meta search of 9 other engines
Search.com Multi-engine search from AltaVista

Q_Srch| Books, Words, Facts
(?) Books On-Line by Author
(?) Books On-Line by Title
(?) Webster's Dictionary
(?) Bartlett's Dictionary of Quotations
(?) Library of Congress
(?) Australian Libraries
(?) National Library of Australia
(?) CIA World Factbook
(?) Bible - 6 versions
(?) The Koran
Shakespeare (MIT)
Shakespeare (USYD)


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Alta Vista | Simple Help | Advanced Help | (X)
   
DejaNews | Newusers | Help | (X)
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Excite | Newsgroup help | Query help | (X)
   
HotBot | (X)

   
Infoseek | Search Tips | (X)

in locations:   
Lycos | Help | (X)

 
Magellan | Help | (X)

 
MEDLINE | Advanced search page | (X)


Limit references to
    Published in English
    Abstract available
    Last 2 years
No of hits
UK Search | (X)

 
WebCrawler | Help | (X)

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Web Wombat | (X)

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Results format:  Short Complete   
What's New Too! | (X)

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Yahoo | (X)

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Multiple Engine Searches
Internet Sleuth | (X)

 

10 Options selected  Maximum Search Time 

MetaCrawler | (X)

 

Reference/Book Searches
Books On-Line by Author | (X)

 
Books On-Line by Title | (X)

 
Webster's Dictionary | (X)

 
Bartlett's Dictionary of Quotations | (X)

 
Library of Congress | (X)
 
Case does not matter Case does matter  
Australian Libraries | (X)

 
National Library of Australia | (X)
 
CIA World Factbook | (X)
General:    Country: 
Organization:    hits:   
Bible - 6 versions | (X)

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Restrict to Book:     Max number verses:
The Koran | (X)


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