Internet Search |
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Use this InfoToday article to learn the ins & outs and stay abreast of top search tools. Searchengineshowdown, SearchIQ rate all search sites, metasearchers, directories, has search tips. Search Engine Watch has tutorials, facts, utilities, specialty search. Berkeley offers a comprehensive tutorial; USC, Pandia have more basic tutorials. The Universiteit Leiden (Netherlands) has compiled this exhaustive list of specialty search and other tools. About.Com's search page has articles, hints - updated regularly; see invisible web resources. Highbeam (formerly Elibrary) and Libraryspot search periodicals, books, maps, almanacs, all kinds of references ... See InvisibleWeb, CompletePlanet for links into the 'invisible web' or latest Gary Price presentation on Web Search. |
| All Purpose Search | Also see my huge compendium of search tools | |
| Refdesk - Highbeam Search Bug - Surfwax - Answers.Com |
Search resources; news/weather, desk references, publications, tech material, travel, maps, financials, entertainment ... Surfwax does search engines, invisible web ... Answers.Com answers questions ... Highbeam ($) searches published sources. | |
| Searching the Web | Findspot discusses advanced features of key web search engines. | |
| Metor, Metacrawler, Profusion - search multiple engines. Vivisimo clusters results. | ||
| Wisenut,
Teoma, Quintera, Google, MSN,Gigablast |
Exalead, Wisenut, Teoma suggest categories; Google has all sorts of tools; also try MSN (with NEAR ME), Quintera organizes the search space and Gigablast is an interesting new choice. | |
| Yahoo,
MEL,
BUBL,
Galaxy, The WWW Virtual Library, Intrnatl SEs |
Yahoo is the original directory; DMOZ is an open directory project, The WWW VL is by subject experts; the IPL, MEL, BUBL, Galaxy have listings by subject. Search Engine Guide has categories and specialty sites. | |
Searching for Software, other Files and through FTPspace
CNet Download.Com -- Tucows; software libraries, shareware & freeware.
Searching for People, Businesses
(can use Win98+ - Start/Find/People) Shopping Related
Searching Usenet Newsgroups, Mailing Lists, Blogs - News2Web accesses
Usenet w/browser. |
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Miscellaneous Others - or find an appropriate forum or usenet newsgroup to ask for advice. Picsearch, Google, Yahoo, Ditto - image search; Mediabuilder - image warehouse; About.Com - many image resources. Brightqube for stock photos. Yahoo. Lycos, Alta Vista, Findsounds for sounds; MP3meta and Lycos for music. Webseek- image/video search/catalog; LawCrawler, Findlaw- legal stuff; Medical Search; Pinstripe- industry info Webopedia for technical terms; SearchEdu and SearchMil for specific domains. BriansBuzz for windows help. Archive - old websites - search it. Brainboost answers questions; Google Search by Numbers - tracking, VINs, etc Mapquest- custom maps/travel directions in the U.S.; International Stats- US Census; Useful databases- Melissa; Infomine for scholarly collections; the Social Science Gateway; Company Info- TradingDay, 10KWizard; US Govt: Google, FirstGov, IIT Library; News- NewsNow, Google has news alerts +adv search, Topix is terrific. |
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