BrainWeb's Web Toolbox

"Seek and you shall find"

HotBot

The extremely sophisticated and comprehensive search engine run by the people at Hotwired

As a starting point for factual research on the Web, try Wired Source by the same team...

Try Digital's Altavista Search Engine:

InfoSeek Net Search
InfoSeek Net Search is one of the most powerful and popular ways to search the Web. Just type your question in plain English or enter words and phrases. Helpful Tips

Yahoo, one of the oldest and still one of the best:

MetaSearch

LinkStar

Galaxy

Galaxy provides around 5000 topics and accesses a database of more than a half million URLs

Other Search Engines

• Excite
• Spry Internet Wizard

• Lycos
• World Wide Web Worm
• Open Text Web Index
• NetSearch
• SavvySearch
• Internet Sleuth
• All-in-One Search Page
• Jump - Selected points of entry to the Web
• Interactive Yellow Pages

• DejaNews... the immensely useful search engine to enable you to keep track of the vast USENET newsgroups

• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue

Directories

• .net Directory (URLs aplenty!)

• Yell
• Events Online... UK Cinema, TV, Culture etc.
• UK Directory
• The INTERNET Compendium

Web Authoring

Netmechanic is an automated service which will check the HTML and links in your Web site.

• The Web Masters' Page

• The Webmaster Reference Library
• The Netscape Home Page... where you can obtain the most widely used browser, as well as tips on Web authoring, searching and other Web stuff
• The Netsurfer Digest... news and views for the "Internet Community"
• The VRML Library... for the latest resources to bring virtual reality to the Web
• Minneapolis College of Art and Design students' homepage: with many examples of ambitious and interesting web pages
• JavaWorld... for the latest news on the latest applets etc.

Resource Sites

• Portico... the Web access project of the British Library

• iGuide... a sorta mix between a directory of sites and a lifestyle e-zine

• NetMind Free Services including: URL-Minder, E-Minder, anagram generator, Unusual Word Research Page etc.

• SunSite Europe including large software library

• LEO a German project to Link Everything Online (!)

• NetSumm... a British Telecom advanced language project which can produce an abridgement of any Web page, or your own copy/pasted text. This is still an experimental process, but when perfected it may become a valuable asset in "drinking from the fire hydrant" of the information explosion

• Business Monitor Online