Web Directories

• Great Altavista search site by DEC
• MetaCrawler, excellent service that searches multiple directories and and collates the results
• Lycos database of web documents
• The venerable Yahoo index, best for finding company home pages
• WebCrawler, very quick response time
• Excite, a new search site by Architext
• Magellan
• JumpCity

E-mail Address Directories

• Switchboard Great new service with US personal and business phone directories. You can update your own listing.
• Bigfoot email directory
• LookUP! email address service
• 411 email directory and PGP key service

More Directories

• InterNIC central Internet organization including searchable registration databases
• Big Book yellow pages directory, USA businesses
• CERN List registered HTTP servers by country
• W3 Catalogue searchable catalog of web resources from CUI
• Commercial Sites Index run by Openmarket
• CERN Virtual Library subject index
• Jumpstation index generated by Jumpstation Web-wandering robot
• ALIWEB
• Whole Internet Catalog by O'Reilly
• Archie Gateway for finding files available by FTP

More info on active Web robots, many of which provide searchable databases of their results, is available here.

Last update: May 12, 1996
Reed Sturtevant <reed@sturtevant.com>