Switchboard.com (Interactive Phone Directory)
Switchboard provides a fast and easy way for people and businesses to find each other on the Web with it's "white pages," and easy-to-use national "yellow pages" directory.
Mapquest.com (Interactive Map Maker)
MapQuest provides very detailed maps and driving directions for the United States, Canada and most of Western Europe -- including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Simply enter an address on MapQuest and easily access millions of locations around the world, obtain detailed maps and accurate driving directions, locate places of interest, customize road trip plans, and create, save, download or email personalized maps.
[Top of Page][Find People/Places/Things][Consumer Info][History][Libraries][Media][Web Library Services][Monessen][Health]AltaVista, which means "a view from above", was inspired by the creation of big ideas and a fascination with keeping track of information. During the spring of 1995, scientists at Digital Equipment Corporation's Research lab in Palo Alto, CA, devised a way to store every word of every page on the entire Internet in a fast, searchable index. This lead to the development of the first searchable, full-text database on the World Wide Web.
Google is a play on the word "googol", which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, to refer to the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. A googol is a very large number. Co-founders Larry Page, president of Products, and Sergey Brin, president of Technology, brought Google to life in September 1998.
Dogpile, founded in 1996, is an Internet meta-search engine. The site joined the InfoSpace Network in 2000 and is owned and operated by InfoSpace, Inc .
The HotBot Homepage provides you with a streamlined yet powerful starting point for searching the Internet.
Lycos offers a Web search engine, subject directories, and several other services. In April 1999, it made its main directory a version of the Open Directory. Lycos has several databases from which it delivers search results. The "Sponsored Listings" include ads from Overture followed by "From the Lycos Network" which displays links from the Lycos Guide and other customized links. Then, the Web pages from FAST are under the "Web Results" section. Separate links go to the the Lycos version of the Open Directory. Lycos also has news and shopping databases.
Created in 1996 as a master's thesis, Mamma.com helped to introduce meta-search to the Internet as one of the first of its kind. Due to its ease of use, and the benefits of meta-search, Mamma grew rapidly through word of mouth, and quickly became an established presence on the Internet.