49 French Search Engines/ 4 Links

Compiled by Juanita Villena-Alvarez

University of South Carolina Beaufort

 

I. Four major International search engines completely in French

      1. Lycos at www.lycos.fr
      2. Microsoft at www.fr.msn.com
      3. Netscape at www.netcenter.com/fr
      4. Yahoo at www.yahoo.fr
    1. Other search engines completely in French (22)
      1. Carrefour at http://recherche.carrefour.net
      2. C’est Trouvé at http://hot.ctrouve.com/com
      3. CNRS UREC at www.urec.cnrs.fr/
      4. Cocorico at www.cocorico.com/francophone/moteur.html
      5. Ecila at www.ecila.fr
      6. France Pratique at www.pratique.fr/
      7. Francité at www.francite.com
      8. Groupe Acticiel at www.acticiel.com
      9. IPL at http://www.ipl.com./web/fr/search/ based in Geneva, in French, German or English
      10. Lokace at www.lokace.com
      11. Linux Start at http://fr.linuxstart.com
      12. Micronet at www.micronet.fr/heb.html
      13. Netscan at www.netscan.fr
      14. Nomade at http://rechercher.nomade.fr
      15. Phantom at www.rechercher.net/phantom
      16. Présence Web at www.presenceweb.net/
      17. Quiquoiou/wanadoo at http://quiquoiou.wanadoo.fr
      18. Le Seuil at http://altern.org/seuil
      19. Sitexplorer at http://sitexp.hypermart.net/francais.html
      20. Vascodagama Channel at www.vascodagama.org/02/
      21. Voilà at www.voila.fr
      22. Who You at www.whoyou.com
      23. XRecherche at www.x-recherche.com
    1. Regional search engines (14)
      1. Administration Suisse at www.admin.ch/ch/index.fr.html
      2. Africaonline at www.africaonline.co.ci/
      3. AltaVista Canada at www.altavistacanada.com
      4. Euroferret at www.euroferret.com
      5. Euroseek at www.euroseek.net
      6. Excite France at http://fr.excite.com
      7. Gouvernment Québec at www.gouv.qc.ca/XmlDev/Site/Dhtml/Francais/Index.html
      8. Infoseek France at www.infoseek.com/Home?pg=Home.html&sv=FR
      9. Le Village at www.le-village.com
      10. Pagefrance at www.pagefrance.com
      11. Pagequébec at www.pagequebec.com
      12. The Swiss Search Engine at www.search.ch/index.html.fr
      13. Toile du Québec at http://recherche.toile.qc.ca
      14. Woyaa for African Internet at www.woyaa.com/indexFR.html
    1. Specialized Search engines in French (6)
      1. Estat at www.estat.com for statistics searches – subscribers only.
      2. Nautilia at www.nautilia.net/fr for maritime searches.
      3. Perso-Search at www.perso-search.com for searching for persons.
      4. 3D and multimedia at http://3dup.com/search_french.html for 3D, 2D, audio visual and multimedia searches.
      5. Surfrance at www.surfrance.com for cities and activities.
      6. SuperWin at www.superwin.net/F-games for game shows.
    1. Search engines in English that can recognize French words and provide response to searches in French (2)
      1. Google! at www.google.com
      2. Hotbot at www.hotbot.com
      3. VI. Websites that link to multiple French search engines/websites

      4. www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html - Tennessee Bob, second
      5. edition, has more than 8,500 links valuable to French studies

        categorized into the following:

        • Finding New Francophone Sites

        • Books and Literature

        • Art, Music, Film and General Culture

        • History of France and the French-Speaking World

        • Virtual Francophone Tourism

        • The French Language

        • Press, radio/TV, Telephone

        • Education in French-Speaking schools

        • French Across the Curriculum and in Every-day Life

      6. www.mundolatino.org/prensa - Up to date articles and stories from news
      7. media all around the world in original language are also available here.

        This site links 856 Hispanic news media websites and 342 websites in

        other languages, including 4 Francophone countries – Belgium (15),

        Canada (26), France (15), and Switzerland (8) with the number of

        linkable sites in parenthesis. France, for example, gives direct link to

        six newspapers (AFP, Ouest-France, Le Figaro, Le Monde, Le Voix du

        Nord, Libération), two magazines (Elle, Le Monde diplomatique), five

        sites for television (Canal +, France 2, France 3, La Cinquième, TF1)

        and two sites for radio (Europe 2, Radio France Internationale).

      8. www.twics.com/~takakuwa/search - Search Engines Worldwide lists 124
      9. countries and 786 search engines. The list includes the following 15

        Francophone countries and regions (with the number of search engines

        available in parenthesis):

        Africa (8)

        Algeria (1)

        Belgium (7)

        Cameroon (1)

        Canada (30)

        Caribbean (3)

        Egypt (2)

        Europe (8)

        France (16)

        Haiti (1)

        Luxembourg (2)

        Monaco (1)

        Morocco (1)

        Switzerland (4)

        Vietnam (3)

         

      10. http://sam.acrous.fr/referenceur/liste_franco.htm lists some 100 directories,

indexes, lists and search engines.

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