Search Tools

Subject Directories

About.comhttp://www.about.com/

Over 2 million Generally good annotations done by "Guides" with various levels of expertise.

 

Google Directoryhttp://directory.google.com/

Google provides categorization as well as straight searching.

 

Infomine      http://infomine.ucr.edu/Main.html

For faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. Contains highly useful Internet/Web resources including databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, listservs, online library card catalogs, articles and directories of researchers, among many other types of information.

 

Invisible Webhttp://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html

There are still some hurdles search engine spiders cannot leap, and these still create a HUGE set of web pages not found in general search engines.  This page has tips on how to search for those things that don't come up in normal searching.

 

Librarian's Internet Indexhttp://www.lii.org

Searchable, evaluated, and annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected for their usefulness to the public library user's information needs.

 

Yahoohttp://www.yahoo.com

Yahoo is the web's most popular search service and has a well-deserved reputation for helping people find information easily. The secret to Yahoo's success is human beings. It is the largest human-compiled guide to the web.

Complete Planet      http://aip.completeplanet.com

A collection of 70,000 searchable databases and speciality search engine, this commercial product (free on the web) claims to search much of the invisible web.  Arranged by subject, their speciality is white papers and technical reports. 

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Search Engines 

All The Web     http://www.alltheweb.com/

All The Web aims to index the entire web. It was the first search engine to break the 200 million web page index milestone and consistently has one of the largest indexes of the web. Has a LiveSearch chat component.

 

AltaVistahttp://www.altavista.com/

AltaVista is consistently one of the largest search engines on the web, in terms of pages indexed. Its comprehensive coverage and wide range of power searching commands makes it a particular favorite among researchers. 

 

Clustyhttp://clusty.com/

Developed as a consumer search engine by Vivisimo, it clusters search results by related subject terms.

 

Excite       http://www.excite.com/

Excite is one of the more popular search services on the web. It offers a fairly large index and integrates non-web material such as company information and sports scores into its results, when appropriate. 

 

Googlehttp://www.google.com/

Google is a search engine that makes heavy use of link popularity as a primary way to rank web sites. This can be especially helpful in finding good sites in response to general searches such as "cars" and "travel," because users across the web have in essence voted for good sites by linking to them.

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Meta-Search Engines 

Dogpilehttp://www.dogpile.com/index.gsp

Popular metasearch site that sends a search to a customizable list of search engines, directories and specialty search sites, then displays results from each search engine individually. Owned by Go2Net, which also owns MetaCrawler. 

 

Ixquick      http://www.ixquick.com/

Meta search engine that ranks results based on the number of "top 10" rankings a site receives from the various search engines. 

 

MetaCrawler        http://www.metacrawler.com/

Combines results from several engines to create a comprehensive hotlist of Web resources for any question. Searches against major engines or provides those who open free accounts the ability to chose from a list of hundreds. Using the "SiteSnaps" feature, you can preview any page in the results and see where your terms appear in the document. Allows results or documents to be saved for future use.

 

SurfWax      http://www.surfwax.com/

Searches against major engines or provides those who open free accounts the ability to chose from a list of hundreds. Using the "SiteSnaps" feature, you can preview any page in the results and see where your terms appear in the document. Allows results or documents to be saved for future use.

 

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