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Web Search Engines & Tools

 

Familiarity with the following vocabulary may facilitate your web search.

Glossary

  • directory: a subject index - an attempt to catalog and organize the web

  • meta search engine: uses a single interface to provide simultaneous searching of the most popular search engines
  • search engine: uses software programs known as robots, spiders or crawlers to search the web and build a database of sites
  • specialized search sites : these are search engines or portals that only search very specific kinds of information (e.g Computer Science or Law)
  • webliography: site with lots of links by subject - organized by humans

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    Internet Searching Techniques & Helpful Hints
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  • Advanced Searching Techniques Tips and Tricks (About.com)

  • Bare Bones 101: A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web (University of South Carolina)

  • Evaluating Web Resources (Widener University)

  • Evaluating Internet Resources (University at Albany)

  • Finding Information on the Internet: A TUTORIAL (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Guide to Effective Searching of the Internet (Visual Metrics Corp)

  • Internet Primer (Naval Postgraduate School)

  • A Student's Guide to Research with the WWW (St. Louis University)

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    The following represent some of the available search sites organized by category. Many others are available. Suggestions for additions are welcome. \

     

    Search Engines & Search Tools

     

  • Major Search Engines

    • Broken into various categories, this site provides descriptions and links to the major search engines

  • All The Web (FAST Search)

  • Alta Vista

    • Search basics

  • Excite

  • FAST Search (All The Web)

  • Go.com

  • Google

    • Help

  • HotBot

    • Search tips

  • Lycos

    • Help

  • Northern Light

    • Search help

  • Oingo

    • "A highly detailed database of over 1,000,000 words and meanings, linked by millions of relationships in a semantic network that is constantly changing to reflect the currency of everyday language."

  • Search Engine Colossus

    • International directory of search engines featuring links to over 1400 search engines from 136 countries around the world

  • TEOMA

  • Web Crawler

    • Help

     

    Meta Search Engine

     

  • Metacrawlers

    • Broken into various categories, this site provides descriptions and links to the major metacrawlers or engines

  • Ask Jeeves!

    • New user tour

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  • BigHub

    • Searches 8 search engines

  • C4

    • Searches 16 different search engines
    Help
    Custom search

  • Dogpile

    • Searches over 13 different search engines
    Help

  • FastBoot

    • 1000 Search Engine Resources

  • Inference Find

    • Searches 6 search engines
    Help

  • Internet Sleuth

    • Searches 6 search engines
    Search techniques

  • Ixquick

    • Searches 14 search engines
    Power searching

  • Mamma.com

    • Searches 10 search engines
    Power search

  • Metacrawler

    • Searches 6 search engines

  • Metafind

    • Searches 5 search engines

    Help

  • ProFusion

    • Searches 9 search engines
    Search tips

  • QuickBrowse

  • RedeSearch

    • Searches 10 search engines

  • Vivísimo

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    Specialized Search Site

     

     

     

    The Invisible Web

     

     

  • CompletePlanet

    • Locate search engines and databases on the web

       

  • Direct Search

    • Direct Search is a growing compilation of links to the search interfaces of resources that contain data not easily or entirely searchable/accessible from general search tools like Alta Vista, Google, and Hotbot.

       

  • Flipper.com
  • Provides true 'Deep Web' search capabilities and categorized results.

  • Hidden Webs, Specialty Webs and Invisible Databases

    • FastBoot Resources

  • IncyWincy: The Invisible Web Search Engine
  • InvisibleWeb.com

    • The InvisibleWeb.com is a directory of over 10,000 databases, archives, and search engines that contain information that traditional search engines have been unable to access.

       

  • The Invisible Web Directory

      Directory of resources not visible to general-purpose search engines

  • Invisible Web: What it is, Why it exists, How to find it, and Its inherent ambiguity (U.C. Berkeley)
  • Lycos Invisible Web Catalog

  • Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed (Rider University)

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    Subject Directories & Webliographies

     
  • Air War College Gateway to Internet Resources
  • Argus Clearinghouse
  • Digital Librarian

      A librarian's choice of the best of the Web.

       

  • e-BLAST

      Encyclopaedia Britannica's Internet Guide

  • Go

    How to search
    Advanced search

     

  • Infomine

      Scholarly Internet Resource Collections

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  • Internet Public Library
  • Librarian's Index to the Internet

  • Look Smart
  • Lycos' Top 5%
  • Maritime History on the Internet

      A guide to doing maritime history research online.

       

  • Netscape Compass Server

      Searches military related sites, including CALL (Center for Army Lessons Learned).

       

  • Scout Report Signpost

      The Internet Scout Project, funded through the National Science Foundation, is designed to guide U.S. higher education to quality electronic resources. A compendium of over 10,000 full-text searchable Scout Report summaries, with 3700 entries listed by 37 LC-indexed subjects.

  • Search.com

  • Searchpower.com

  • Snap

  • Virtual Information Center

      UCB & Internet Resources by Academic Discipline

       

  • WWW Virtual Library

  • Yahoo!

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    08/10/2009

     

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