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About.com
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www.about.com
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Human guides offer their picks
for best links as well as original content in more than 700 specialties.
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AlphaSmart
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www.calvin.edu/library/searreso/internet/as
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A gateway to the “finest
Internet gateways.”
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www.altavista.com
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Very large database of web
sites and Usenet newsgroups with advance Boolean and field search options.
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AOL.COM Search
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http://search.aol.com
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Engine that defaults AND logic
and offers a Search Options template for easy search construction; offers
a directory based on the Open Directory Project.
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Argus Clearinghouse
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www.clearinghouse.net
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An academic selective
collection of topical guides.
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Ask Jeeves
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www.askjeeves.com
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Submit questions in plain
English and view suggested relevant sites.
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BUBL LINK/ 5:15
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http://bubl.ac.uk/link
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Selected Internet resources
covering all academic subject areas.
Read the About section for an interesting explanation about the
site name.
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CompletePlanet
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www.completeplanet.com
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Searches the “deep Web” for
relevant search engines and databases.
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Deja.com
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www.deja.com
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Search postings to thousands of
Usenet newsgroups; free registration is available for special services
including discussion forums, spam-free e-mail accounts, and e-mail alerts
about postings on topics (threads) of your choice.
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Digital Librarian
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www.digital-librarian.com
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“A librarian’s choice of
the best of the Web” with emphasis on “A librarian.”
The site is maintained by one librarian: Margaret Vail Anderson in
Cortland, New York.
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Direct Hit
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www.directhit.com
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Retrieves documents in order of
popularity, i.e., sites that users select from search results for a
similar request.
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Dogpile
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www.dogpile.com
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Dogpile’s metasearch presents
results from each of the search engines it queries individually, rather
than mixing them all together into a single list
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Excite
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www.excite.com
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Large, current database with
concept searching available to focus results; includes its channel content
with results for searches on broad or popular terms.
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FAST Search: All the Web, All
the Time
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www.alltheweb.com
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Returns results quickly from a
database of 200+ million pages; responsible for the Lycos MP3 engine.
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FindArticles.com
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www.findarticles.com
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Free services that offer
full-text access to articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300
magazines and journals.
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Google
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www.google.com
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Ranks pages by the number of
links from pages ranked high by the service; offers the option to view
sites quickly if they are in the service’s cache.
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GoTo
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www.goto.com
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Free market search engine that
displays results according to competitive bidding, user evaluations, and
typical retrieval processing.
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Guidebeam
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http://guidebeam.com
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Suggests subcategories even
before you view your results.
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HotBot
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www.hotbot.com
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Very large database with easy
form-based Boolean, field, and media search options; includes its channel
content with the results for searches on broad or popular terms; clusters
results by presenting one hit per site.
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Infomine: Scholarly Internet
Research Collections
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http://infomine.ucr.edu
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Produced by the University of
California and intended for use at the university level.
Infomine is a “comprehensive showcase, virtual library, and
reference tool.”
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Infoseek
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www.infoseek.com
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Accurate search engine of web
sites, usenet newsgroups, Reuters news, and companies with field search
options; clusters results by presenting one hit per site; offers
recommended and/or reviewed web sites for certain topics.
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Invisible Web
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www.invisibleweb.com
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“The Search Engine of Search
Engines.”
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KidsClick!
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http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!
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Subject directory sites have
been selected, categorized, and annotated by librarians.
Sites are tagged by reading level and amount of graphics.
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Librarian’s Index to the
Internet
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http://lii.org
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Lycos
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www.lycos.com
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Small database offering the
bonus of proximity searching and the option to control factors in the
relevancy ranking of results.
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MSN Search
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http://search.msn.com
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Derives results from a variety
of sources, including LookSmart directory, Direct Hit and others; applies
concept matching to search statements; and offers an advanced search
option with form-based field searching similar to HotBot.
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Multnomah Homework Center
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www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework
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The librarians at Multnomah
County Library (Portland, Oregon) organize the materials students most
need into categories that ensure easy access.
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Northern Light
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http://northernlight.com
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Results are organized into
concept or location folders; Special Collection articles available for a
small fee; Alerts service tracks search topics for new documents.
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Oingo
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www.oingo.com
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“Meaning-based” engine that
constructs meanings and relationships from your search terms to return
results, from which you can choose your desired concept to refine your
search.
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Open Directory Project
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http://dmoz.org
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A comprehensive directory
maintained by “a vast army of volunteer editors.”
The “Project is a collaboration between Lycos, Mozilla.org, and
HotBot to build the Internet’s most comprehensive taxonomy of Web
content.”
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Searchedu.com
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www.searchedu.com
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Searches university and
education sites only and ranks them in order of popularity.
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SearchIQ
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www.zdnet.com/searchiq/subjects
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A subject directory of search
engines.
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NBCI
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www.nbci.com
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Primarily a directory; choose
“All Web Pages” to supplement search results from a large database of
web pages compiled by Inktomi search engine; if no directory results are
found, web pages are automatically searched.
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StartSpot
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http://startspot.com/network
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This network of helpful
gateways includes CinemaSpot, BookSpot, LibrarySpot, and HeadlineSpot.
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The Electric Monk
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www.electricmonk.com
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Ask questions in plain English
and retrieve up to 50 results in relevancy ranked order; uses the Lycos
search engine database.
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Vivisimo
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http://vivisimo.com
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New metasearch tool too good to
miss. Results are “concept
clustered” – sorted into logical subcategories.
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Web Crawler
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http://webcrawler.com
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Search two million pages from
Excite search engine index.
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WWW Virtual Library
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http://vlib.org/overview.html
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The oldest Web catalog of the
Web is “run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of
key links for particular areas in which they are expert.”
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Yahoo
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www.yahoo.com
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The most popular of all search
engines.
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