Some Internet Important (and generally nifty) Things...

Meta META *M*E*T*A*!

• WWW Meta-Indexes and Search Tools (many of which are scattered below)

Search Engines

• SWOOPY ALERT: Selection of WWW Searching Tools (via CUI, Geneva, Switzerland)
• The WebCrawler Home Page (my personal favorite) (Brian Pinkerton, Univ. of Washington)
• EVERYONE! Well, almost... the 411 Directory
• Jumpstation and Jumpstation II (the revenge) - Two is streamlined, I believe
• The World Wide Web Worm (can only handle 25 simultaneous users)
• The EINet Galaxy search engine
• W3 Catalog
• GNA Meta-Library
• Annotated Selection of Internet Search Tools (via Netscape Communications, Inc.)
• World Wide Web Robots, Wanderers and Spiders (NEXOR, Nottingham, UK)
• ALIWEB: Archie-like Indexing for the Web (NEXOR, Nottingham, UK)
• CUI W3 Catalog (CUI, Geneva, Switzerland)
• CUSI: Configurable Unified Search Interface (Martjin Koster, Twente University)
• DA-CLOD: An Experiment in Documenting the Web (WUSTL)
• Globewide Network Academy Meta-Library (via MIT)
• Lycos: The Catalog of the Internet (via Carnegie Mellon University)
• Mother-of-All-BBSs (WAIS-Searchable WWW Servers) (Oliver McBryan, Univ. of Colorado)
• Open Text World Wide Web Search Engine (Open Text Corporation via UUNET)
• Verity TOPIC Index Search of Selected WWW Servers (via Verity, Inc.)
• WAISGATE: WAIS-to-WEB Gateway (WAIS, Inc.)
• WWW NIKOS (Rockwell Network Systems and Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo)
• WWW Power Index (CSS Information Services)

Gopher? But I just met...

• Link to LC MARVEL Information on World Wide Web

Huge Pointer Lists

• The Awesome List (John Makulowich)
• Global Network Navigator - O'Reilly's commercial thang and pointer page
• The Mother-of-all BBS - just a big page o'stuff
• Internet Resources Meta-Index
• DA-CLOD: An Experiment in Documenting the Web
• KID'S STUFF! Internet Sites for Kids (John Makulowich)
• Joel's Hierarchical Subject Index (Joel Jones, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
• Nova-Links Network Navigator (Nova Southeastern Univ., Ft. Lauderdale, FL)
• Planet Earth (Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center)
• USGS Network Resources List (U.S. Geological Survey)
• WWW Virtual Library (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
• WWW Virtual Library - Distributed Subject Catalog Arranged by Library of Congress Classification (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
• YAHOO Meta Index: Yet Another Hierarchical [?] Oracle
• Global List of WWW Servers (Geographically, summary list) (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
• Global List of WWW Servers (Geograpically, with descriptions) (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
• Global List of Servers (By protocol: WWW, Gopher, Telnet, etc.) (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
• Comprehensive List of WWW Servers (Sorted alphabetically by site)

Reference Pages

• The IETF Web Thang (that's the Internet Engineering Task Force)
• The Internet Society
• The List of USENET FAQs