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There are two parts to this Search Portal. To the right you will find a resource for searching for local information at OISE/UT and the University of Toronto. Below you will find resources for searching the Internet beyond the virtual walls of this insitution.

 

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Explanation of Search Scope
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OISE/UT Website Index

Electronic Resources at the University of Toronto (including OISE/UT)
Educational Resources from OISE/UT
Person Directories for OISE/UT and UofT


75 Ways to Search the Internet:

How to Use this Search Portal

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.

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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Last update: 00.03.22