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Offering compact or detailed searches through what the company claims is the largest Web index, Alta Vista can help you find your way through 8 billion words filling 30 million Web pages. It also provides a full-text index of more than 14,000 newsgroups.
DejaNews searches Usenet newsgroups, finding the topic you're interested in by a weighted search criteria that sorts the information based on the number of occurrences of the word you're looking for.
It covers the full text of 11.5 million pages and is updated weekly. And Excite's team of expert journalists offer reviews of 55,000 sites. Plus Usenet newsgroups, hourly news, commentary, and the Web's first interactive cartoon.
IBM infoMarket allows the serious user to simultaneously search Web and commercial resources including 66 newswires, 300 newspapers, 770 newsletters, 6300 journals and 11 million companies. Information can be purchased on a per document basis using IBM's Cryptolope technology, enabling users to buy and sell content secruely over the Internet.
Some 21 billion words and phrases in all. The company claims it's one of the largest indexes available. Pose queries of virtually any length, or focus in by searching only titles or links.
Search an extensive database of rated and reviewed Web sites and check out Point's cream of the cybercrop - sites their editors place in the top 5%. Plus, Point offers a weekly Top 10 list and international news headlines.
A list of the best new sites on the Web, updated daily.
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