WARNING! Basically, anything that you post to the newsgroups can be found by others using the newsgroups search engines, e.g., Deja News. All a person needs to know about you is your e-mail address, or your name, or what newsgroups you frequent, etc. This means that your employer or potential employer can find out about you without you knowing about it. I think that I know what some of you are thinking ... now, she tells us! (~ Smile ~)

Table of Contents FREE Search Tools Stand Alone Search Engines or Web Portals All-in-One Search Pages Newsgroups Search Engines FTP Search Engines Image Search Engines Looking for someone? Try these ... Genealogy Search Engines - comparison, etc. Software and Software Search Engines

1. FREE Search Tools ZDNET Download's or "Hot Files" File Ferret 32 v3.0.26 NewsFerret v3.01 WebFerret v3.5001 SelfSeek This program searches a web site that you specify. Back to Table of Contents Back to Home Page

2. Stand Alone Search Engines or Web Portals About.com Alta Vista - very fast! - add URL: Click on "Add Page" on the bottom navigation bar of this page. Tip: To search for the web pages that have linked to your web pages (or main web site), type in link:yourURL (that is, link:http:/www.patmcclendon.com for this web site) AOL NetFind - add URL CNN - CNN Webspace Search Engine Direct Hit - add URL Excite Net Search - add URL Search Tips Options  Galaxy - Search for WWW, Gopher, and Telnet sites. Submit here. add URL Go2.com Submit here (formerly called the WWW Worm and now charging for their service). HOTBOT - add URL Search the Web for   Type a specific question, phrase or Name. the Web News wires National news Industry news E-mail addresses Company capsules InfoSeek (part go the GO Network) Submit here. InfoSpace Submit here. Looksmart - add URL (They also have some free service: My Search - free search for your site Beseen - free site tools) LYCOS - add URL Search The Web Sounds Pictures TOP 5% for: Magellan - has categories - add URL MegaGo.com   Search Tips any   all   phrase The Web Directory Audio/MP3 Newsgroups Auctions MSN (uses AltaVista search engines) Netscape Netcenter - add URL Northern Lights - add URL dmoz.org Open Directory, a.k.a. Dmoz.org add URL Once your site has been accepted into the Open Directory, it may take anywhere from 2 weeks to several months for your site to be listed on partner sites which use the Open Directory data, such as AOL Search, AltaVista, HotBot, Google, Lycos, Netscape Search, etc. We make updates of the data available weekly, but each partner has their own update schedule.  Planet Search - add URL Scrub The Web Search Engine - add URL Snap.com - add URL 37.com - 37 SEARCH ENGINES! TradeWave Galaxy - categories Thunderstone's Web Site Catalog Also see: THUNDERSTONE Free Search Engine Service: Webinator Web Index System ... submit your site here to be indexed. Then, add the appropriate HTML coding to your web site so that your visitors can search it. WEBCRAWLER  - add URL Webinator Web Index System by THUNDERSTONE : Index Your Site (We maintain it for you) FREE  The WEBINATOR is a sophisticated Web index and retrieval package. It allows the Website administrator to create and provide a high quality retrieval interface to collections of web documents no matter where they reside.  Webinator serves as an example of the type of applications that can be built around Thunderstone's Texis RDBMS. The Webinator is the only product that understands HTML 3.0, tables, and framed documents. It's available for most popular web platforms and has a reasonable starting price; Free You e-mail address must have the same domain name as your web site, for example:  What's your email address? [email protected] What's your email address? www.patmcclendon.com A word of caution: If you mess up in this process you are band from the service. Each time you submit your web site, you will get a number via e-mail that you that you need to type into to dialog box before it hitting the submit button. If there is a problem (your server timed out, etc.), you will told to try again. DON'T USE THE SAME NUMBER, instead wait to get a new number via e-mail. I used the old number and I can't get my http://www.PatMcCendon.com/ indexed by them. I'm trying to get in touch with them, now. What-U-Seek - add URL YAHOO - How to Suggest a Site - change your listing's information options Search Yahoo! Usenet Yahoo! : Searching the Web Yahoo! : Regional : Countries : United States Back to Table of Contents Back to Home Page

3. All-in-One Search Pages All-in-One Search Page - excellent! The BigHub.com (formerly The Internet Sleuth) C/Net Search.com Dogpile, the Friendly Multi-Engine Search Tool Find-It! - excellent MetaCrawler Searching Metasearch: World Wide Web, Software, Dictionaries and Thesauruses SavvySearch: Sources and Types of Information: 18 languages, so far T H E -- U L T I M A T E -- S E A R C H -- P A G E Web Matrix All-in-One Tools Web Matrix Searchable Indices Back to Table of Contents Back to Home Page

4. Newsgroups Search Engines DEJA NEWS Search Usenet For: Select documents matching all any keywords. Display hitlist in concise detailed format. Research Service - query form: search by newsgroup, date, or author (name or email address) - This is very scary search engine ... Back to Table of Contents Back to Home Page

5. FTP Search Engines Fast FTP Search - over 100 Million Files Back to Table of Contents Back to Home Page

6. Image Search Engines   LYCOS Search Pictures The Web Sounds TOP 5% for: Yahoo! - Image Surfer Category List Back to Table of Contents Back to Home Page

7. Looking for someone? Try these ... Alumni.NET - Bringing School Friends Together (FREE) American Information Network (AIN) - "Sherlock" database  - fee based America Online - Members: Use AOL's Search Engine (People) America Online - Members On-line profiles and web pages BellSouth -The Real Yellow Pages Online BigBook Directory Search (People)       ClassMates.com find old friends, about class reunions, etc. Full privileges are $25 per 2 years. CompuServe's Our World Experts.com - Directory of Experts Worldwide, Authors, Consultants, Spokespersons and Expert Witnesses Prodigy Personal Web Pages Internet Department of Motor Vehicles (part of AIN, see above) - All you need is someone's license plate number. Fees from $20 to $35. Internet Address Finder (IAF) The Internet Phone User Directory Netscape People Finder - includes "Reserve Lookup": Phone Number, Address, or Email Address  Notable Citizens of Planet Earth Switchboard The Internet Directory - YellowPages - WhitePages - PhoneBook Yahoo! People Search - by name and location to yields address & phone number OR by name and domain to yield e-mail addresses  Yahoo! : Society and Culture : People : Personal Home Pages TheYellowPages.com(tm) WhoWhere? 555-1212.com's Fast Area Code Look-Up Back to Table of Contents Back to Home Page

8. Genealogy - also see Genealogy Links Ancestry.com ­ (Fee: $59.95 per year) "Guests" have limited access. Everton's Guide to Genealogy on the World Wide Web - subscription required. Family History Centers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Family Tree Maker Web Site Genealogy.com - limited access unless you pay a fee. Gensearcher -  The All-in-One Genealogy Search LSD FamilySearch RAND Genealogy Club Yahoo! - Search Results - Genealogy Back to Table of Contents Back to Home Page

9. Search Engines - Comparison, etc. Yahoo! > Computers and Internet > Internet > World Wide Web > Searching the Web Search Engine Tutorial - META MEDIC! - Tips about using META tags (description, keywords, etc.) Back to Table of Contents Back to Home Page

10. Software and Software Search Engines CWSApps Stroud's Consummate Winsock Apps List. Internet Software The best web site to download freeware, shareware, and demo software and learn more about the software by reading their reviews. Click on "Full Review" to learn more about the software. Download.com at CNET.com shareware.com Most Popular and shareware.com Most Popular - MS-Windows95 - Power Search Tucows' The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software Windows Device Drivers and Support Printer driver, video driver, cdrom drivers, modem drivers, sound drivers, mouse drivers, monitor drive,etc. WinFiles.com (formerly Windows95.com) "The best 32-bit Shareware, Drivers, Tips, and Information on the Internet!" Shell and Desktop Tools ZDNET Download's or "Hot Files" Search for keywords like: password, desktop themes, games, mortgage, Y2K, etc. Hot File of the Day for example: DeskNotes A "sticky notes" program. Free File of the Day Free for All Downloads 50 FREE Downloads Here are some neat programs: ReGet "The best international FTP-HTTP Download Manager." This software can continue downloads that were abort or discontinued. You can also use it to "batch" download. Star Division Online makers of StarOffice 5.2 Office Suite Personal Edition is available for free to non-commercial individual users. Click on "StarOffice Personal Edition for free". It is currently available for Windows, OS2, Linux, and SUN Solaris operating systems. The Windows version is about 66 MB, so use a little program called ReGet (a download manager) which can pick up where it left off if the download gets interrupted for any reason.   Trouble remembering your user names and passwords? If you use Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4 or 5, you can automatically save you user name and password, Netscape doesn't have this feature (that I know of). Additionally, it is a good idea to save your user names and passwords on 3 x 5 cards in an index card file or on a spiral version of the cards in case your computer crashes, etc. Here are two neat programs, the first one keep passwords, while the second program has a few more features: PassKeeper for Windows by Brad Greenlee (Free) Password Keeper for Windows by Gregory Braun (Free to try, if you decide to buy, you'll pay $20 by U.S. Mail or $25 if you order over the telephone or at their Web site. They charge $5 to process the credit card orders.) Back to Top Back to Table of Contents Back to Home Page   If you have come here from someone else's web  site and are stuck inside their frames, click here.

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