Major Search Engines
Alltheweb
Fast Search
http://www.alltheweb.com
AltaVista
http://www.altavista.com/
DirectHit
from AskJeeves
http://www.directhit.com/
Excite
http://www.excite.com/
Google
http://www.google.com
HOTBOT
from Lycos
http://hotbot.lycos.com/
InfoSeek
[GO.com]
http://infoseek.go.com/
Northern
Light
http://www.northernlight.com
WebCrawler
http://www.webcrawler.com/
Referenced Web Indexes
About.com
http://about.com
Argus
Clearinghouse
http://www.clearinghouse.net
Britannica
Internet Guide
http://www.britannica.com
Candian Education on the Web
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~mpress/eduweb.html
Librarian's Index to the Internet
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/internetindex/
Michigan
Electronic Library
http://mel.lib.mi.us/
Academic+ Specialty Services
AEO
Environmental WebDirectory
http://www.webdirectory.com/
DEJA.com's DejaNews Usenet Search
http://www.deja.com/usenet_home.epl
DeMello University Sites Lookup
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html
Kovacs
Directory of Scholarly & Professional E-Conferences
http://n2h2.com/KOVACS/
Library
of Congress (united States)
http://www.loc.gov/
Museum Guide
http://www.lam.mus.ca.us/webmuseums/
Second Language Education on the Web
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~aweinrib/sle/
Other search engines
AliWeb
Natural Language
http://aliweb.emnet.co.uk/
Archie FTP Archive Search
telnet://archie@archie.rutgers.edu
ArchiPlex FTP Archive Search
http://cuiwww.unige.ch/./archieplexform.html
Euroseek
http://www.euroseek.com/
Galaxy
@ EINet
http://galaxy.einet.net/
Infonautics Electric Library
http://www.elibrary.com/id/2525/
InfoHiway
http://www.infohiway.com/
Starting
Point
http://www.stpt.com/others.asp
Voila
http://www.voila.com/
WDirect
http://www.wdirect.com/cgi-win/wdirect.exe
Wolverhampton UK Web Library
http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/wwlib/
Search Portals
AccuFind
http://www.nln.com/
CUI W3 Search Engines
http://cuiwww.unige.ch/meta-index.html
CUSI
@ EMNet
http://cusi.emnet.co.uk/
The River EZ-Find
http://info.theriver.com/TheRiver/ezfind.htm
University of Twente Search Page
http://www_is.cs.utwente.nl:8080/cgi-bin/local/nph-susi1.pl
Netscape Search Portal
http://home.netscape.com/escapes/search/ntsrchdft-0.html
American Journalism Review
http://ajr.newslink.org/searchn.html
How
to Use this Search Page
The Web is an amazing repository
of information on almost any subject under the sun. The search
services listed above classify and search for information in
a variety of different ways. By using more than one, you increase
the likelihood of finding more relevant information. Nonetheless,
these search services access only the 'public' spaces of the
Net, and not the 'private' spaces, such as university libraries,
where you might find more scholarly material. When accessing
information on the Web, expect to find a wide range in the quality.
Every website and its information must be carefully evaluated
before being used. To make the most of each of the different
search services, be sure to consult each of their Help Screens,
where available.
Example
Suppose you wanted to do a traditional
search on the subeject "Attention Decifit Disorder."
You might consult a medical index, a psychology database, and
an education index in order to get a good variety of articles.
Naturally, there might be some overlap between the sources, but
you'd also expect each index or database to have a different
focus. The most complete search would consist of results from
all services. Likewise, there are dozens of different searching
services for the Internet. Each has a different way of working
and each might give you different results, even with the same
search term. The more you use, the more complete your set of
results.
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Major Subject Directories
AOL
Search
http://search.aol.com/
Ask
Jeeves
http://www.askjeeves.com/
4anything
http://www.4anything.com/
GoTo
http://www.goto.com/
LookSmart
http://www.looksmart.com
Lycos
http://www.lycos.com/
Magellan
Internet Guide from Excite
http://magellan.excite.com/
Snap!
http://www.snap.com
Yahoo
http://www.yahoo.com
Meta Searches
Dogpile
http://www.dogpile.com
InferenceFind
http://www.infind.com/infind/
Mamma.com
http://www.mamma.com
Metacrawler
http://www.metacrawler.com
OneSearch
http://www.onesearch.com/
Savvysearch
http://www.savvysearch.com
Other Subject Directories
GOD:
Global Online Directory (European)
http://www.god.co.uk/
IBC
Net
http://www.ibcnet.com/
iWon
http://www.iwon.com/
FindWhat
http://www.findwhat.com/
Nerd
World
http://www.nerdworld.com/
100 Hot Sites
http://www.100hot.com/index.html
Open
Directory Project
http://www.dmoz.org/
Rocketlinks
http://www.rocketlinks.com/
SurfPoint
Link Exchange [MSN]
http://www.surfpoint.com/
UOIL Gateway
http://gateway.lib.uiowa.edu/index.htm
Websurfer
http://www.gowebsurfer.com/
People Finders
WhoWhere
from Lycos
http://www.whowhere.lycos.com/
Four11
from Yahoo
http://people.yahoo.com/
Corporate Searching
CNET
Shareware Search
http://shareware.cnet.com/
MapleSquare
Canadian Directory
http://www.maplesquare.com/
Gamelan
Java Directory
http://www.gamelan.com/
WebSense Company Loacator
http://www.websense.com/locator.cfm
Wired Mag's Hotwired from Lycos
http://hotwired.lycos.com/surf/
The Yellow Pages
http://theyellowpages.com/index3.html
Searching Guides
Search Engine Watch
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/
Life on the Internet
http://www.cochran.com/start/guide/searchengines.html
What each Type of Service Represents
We have divided the different
search services into ten categories. Subject directories are good places to start looking for a new subject.
They are manually built, so are smaller than many search tools,
but the human intervention usually means that the sites are indexed
appropriately. Search
engines are databases created
by software programs, known as robots or spiders, which search
the web indexing words found in web documents. The whole process
is automated, so in your search you need to think of the words
and their spelling that are likely to appear on any of these
web pages that you are looking for. Metasearch
sites allow the simultaneous search of multiple search engines
and directories. Always bear in mind that it is not possible
to use the most sophisticated search capabilities of each search
tool from a metasearch engine. Metasearching is therefore most
useful for relatively simple searches. To find exemplary and
reviewed sites on a particular topic, you might want to visit
some of the Internet indexing
sites that are slowly being
developed. These sites are being developed by librarians and
others in an attempt to bring some kind of organization to the
chaos of the web. Finally, search portals
are resources which lead you to a number of different search
services. This page, for example, is a search portal. Unlike
Metasearch sites, however, search portals do not perform a query
for you.
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