General

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Explore [MS]
Global Online Directory [GO]
Hytelnet [HY]
Internet Movie Database [IM]
NEW Internet Sleuth [SL]
NEW MetroScope [ME]
NlightN [NL]
Pathfinder [PA]
Point Search [PS]
WWW Worm [WO]

Internet Movie Database [IM]

"The most comprehensive free source of movie information on the internet."

Explore (Microsoft's "Explore the Internet") [MS]
A part of the MSN site, the multi-search service groups access to Excite, InfoSeek, Magellan, Lycos, and Yahoo, with Four11 and LookUp! access at the H.I.S. section, as well as searching the Microsoft site.

Access to a large variety of data and information search services is at their Handy InterNet Services, summarized (and accessible) here (and via Best Search):

Phones & Addresses:Find 800 Numbers, Yellow Pages Online, Long Distance Area Decoder, U.S. Postal Service, Zip Code Information, Verify Addresses, as well as LookUp! and Four11 for e-mail addresses.

Financial Information: Stock Quotes, [IRS], IRS Tax Forms, Hoover's Online MasterList Plus data on over 8,500 U.S. public and private companies, Track a Federal Express package, Track a UPS package

Home Reference: Home Maintenance, Environmental Directory, Garden Reference, Health Information, Colleges

Movies & Music: Movie Show Times , Movie Reviews (Internet Movie Database), CD Search, CD Connection

Publications: CMP Technology Magazine Search, Ziff-Davis Magazine Search, Time Warner Publication Search [PA], Art and Architecture Publication Search, US Government Publication Search

Travel: Find a Vacation Spot, Flight Times, US View Maps, 1990 Census Lookup, Weather Forecast

Writer's Reference: Webster's Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, [Global Encyclopedia], Acronyms, Bartlett's Quotations (1901), Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Excite, Four11, InfoSeek, LookUp!, Lycos, Magellan, Pathfinder, Yahoo

MS Explore accesses four of the major search engines, as well as Magellan, Pathfinder, LookUp!, and Four11.

Global Online Directory (Cityscape) [GO]

search for specific types of company or organisation in specific locations.

Hytelnet [HY]
"HYTELNET Version 6.8. Is designed to assist users in reaching all of the INTERNET-accessible libraries, Free-nets, BBSs, & other information sites by Telnet, specifically those users who access Telnet via a modem or the ethernet from an IBM compatible personal computer. When loaded, HYTELNET is memory-resident. Once loaded hit Control + Backspace to activate the program. To leave the program temporarily hit ESC. To remove from memory hit ALT-T while in the program."

Internet Sleuth [SL]
Over 1500 search engines, organized into 22 main subject categories and many subcategories -- many specialized databases. Parallel search engine allows searching up to 10 databases simultaneously, from the Home Page or within most of the categories.

NlightN [NL]

"NlightN is the Web's largest library of meaningful information. It is the fast and easy way to find anything you want to know. For access to knowledge, please enter a word or phrase: Information Databases, current News Briefing, Archived News, web sites in the WWW Internet Index, Desktop References, Discount Bookstore."

Internet Public Library says: "Though slower than other search services, NlightN provides a single interface and search engine for a veritable plethora of content. Though it is possible to search Web pages (NlightN searches the entire contents of the Lycos database), it is also possible to search hundreds of other databases, including citation databases (e.g., Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature , MEDLINE); reference sources (e.g., Encyclopedia of Associations, Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language ); full-text news wires (e.g., Business Wire, Knight-Ridder Wire Services, US Newswire); and the Library of Congress catalogs. A Power Find page informs the user how to use keyword Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) and allows users to limit their searches. Searching the Internet and the book catalog costs nothing. All users can view the headlines of news stories and the title and source of bibliographic citations for free, but to see the full-text or entire citation, it costs a minimum of ten cents per record, making NlightN a low-cost alternative to expensive database vendors like DIALOG. Creator: NlightN, a division of The Library Corporation"

Point Search [PS]

Seems to be Lycos current events searcher

MetroScope [ME]

"Organized by metropolitan area, METROSCOPE links users to over 5000 of the BEST net sites. Each METROSCOPE page contains direct links to a specific area's top web designs, many of which are not found listed together in other popular directories."

WWW Worm [WO]
"Best of the Web '94 - Best Navigational Aid. Oliver McBryan Serving 3,000,000 URL's to 2,000,000 folks/month."

PathFinder (Time Warner's Pathfinder) [PA]
"Pathfinder is a new Web Site created by a group of us at Time Inc. We're doing this because, like many people on the Net, we want to explore. Our goal is to see what new ways we can find to inform and be informed, entertain and be entertained. Time Warner's Pathfinder is the future home to the largest collection of news and entertainment producers, among them TIME, Warner Brothers, Sports Illustrated, HBO, Fortune, People, Elektra Records, Southern Living, Entertainment Weekly, and dozens of others."

Searches Time-Warner Publications.

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