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General Search Engines
Subject Directories
MetaSearch Engines
What is a Search Engine?
Questions about Search Engines?
General Search Engines
- AltaVista
- The "world's fastest, most comprehensive search service"
available in 25 languages with 8 distinct search dimensions.
- Ask.com
- Pose questions in plain English and get results to relevant sites.
- BUBL Link
- "A catalogue of selected Internet resources covering all academic
subject areas and catalogued according to DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification)."
Extremely effective searching.
- FAST Search
- Quickly searches over 300 million documents.
- Google
- Fast, quality searching.
- HotBot
- "Uses over 40 tools to allow users to better articulate their
searches and get relevant results quickly."
- Lycos
- "It combines leading Web search and navigation resources, deep
content in vertical areas, communications and personalization tools,
and a complete shopping center."
- Oingo
- Does "meaning-based searches" by accessing over 1 million
words and meanings. Allows fairly natural-language searches. Fairly
academic.
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Subject Directories
- About.com
- A subject index organized into "over 700 Guide sites neatly organized
into 36 channels. The sites cover more than 50,000 subjects with over 1 million
links to the best resources on the Net and the fastest-growing archive of high
quality original content."
- The Digital Librarian
- A subject index maintained by a librarian. Billed as "a librarian´s
choice of the best of the web".
- Galaxy
- Subject directory, "the original searchable Internet directory. Our Internet
Librarians are Masters of Library Sciences graduates with experience in specific
topic areas."
- Librarians' Index to the Internet
- "The Librarians' Index to the Internet is a searchable, annotated subject
directory of more than 7,500 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians
for their usefulness to users of public libraries."
- Open Directory Project
- Goal is to produce the most comprehensive directory of the web, by relying
on a vast army of volunteer editors for various subject categories.
- The Scout Report
Archive
- "A searchable and browseable database to nearly seven years' worth of
the Scout Report and subject-specific Scout Reports. It contains 11,263 critical
annotations of carefully selected Internet sites and mailing lists."
- TeRespondo
- Spanish Language Search Engine. Also available in Portugese
- Vivisimo
- Searching that places your results into categories so like results are grouped
together for ease of use.
- Voila
- French Language Search Engine
- Yahoo!
- A very comprehensive subject directory. A simplified search form is available
here.
- Yahoo! en español
- Spanish language version of Yahoo's subject directory search.
Metasearch Engines
This is a list of some of the available metasearch engines for your use. It is
by no means a complete list of all the available metasearch engines.
- Beaucoup
- Searches over 2,500 free information sites and search engines.
- DogPile
- Searches 14 search engines. Powered by Infoseek.
- IxQuick
- Bills itself as the "world's most powerful search engine."
- MetaCrawler
- Powered by InfoSpace, Metacrawler searches 13 search engines, including AltaVista,
Google, Excite, Lycos and About.
- Search
- C|Net metasearch engine. Searches AltaVista, Direct Hit, FindWhat, GoTo, Keen
mySimon, Sprinks and Yahoo!
What is a Search Engine?
Search engines allow you to search for information on the web by using keywords.
They then search their database of sites for those words.
Many search engines also divide the Web sites in their database into categories
called subject directories. These categories allow you to navigate through a subject
from general to specific.
Metasearch engines send the keywords you enter to a number of search engines.
For more information about search engines, metasearch engines, and subject
directories, click here.
Questions about Search Engines?
About.com's web site searchengineguide.com
has information and comparisons for 3,681 search engines.
Search Engine Showdown and Search
Engine Watch also compare information about different search engines as well
as giving searching strategies and statistics for each search engine.
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