New
How to Search the Web
- A Guide To Search Tools by Terry A. Gray
Summary of the above search
engines
Alta Vista- Main Page -
still the best overall search engine and image
finder
Altavista CA - the best
overall search engine and image finder for Canadian sites
Ask.com
now better than the original Ask Jeeves
eXcite Netsearch
Hot Bot - received high
ranking from PC magazine
Inference Find - the intelligent
and fast parallel web search engine, has no summaries
but categorizes web sites for easy theme identification. A speed demon on the
screen!
Infoseek GO Network - an
ABC company
IX Quick
- a new search engine for many
languageswith ten reasons to
use it and some comparisons
with other metasearch engines. Good image search ability. Recommend for you
investigation ASAP.
Kids Click
- Web Searching for Kids made by Librarians NEW
Lycos - from Carnegie
Mellon University
Sun Site - see the
bottom for "Fast Access" NEW
Web Crawler - very
flexible in presenting results
Worlds of Searching
Great web page for beginners! NEW
Yahoo - USA
Yahoo! Canada
- One of the best for finding Canadian information
Yahooligans - a kids favorite and a treat to use!
These references are for
technical testing and development purposes.
Try them and
experience the new wave of searching.
Altavista
CA
Altavista
Inside Canada Altavista
Search Canada
10 Top
Resumé Tips Search
Help Altavista CA
Ask Jeeves!
Help - 'How do I ask
Jeeves?' What are
people asking Jeeves this minute?
Answer Point to ask and answer
a question
DogPile
Open Directory DogPile Custom
Meta Search
Meta
Search Notes
Goggle
Learn Search Basics
Learn Advanced
Search Tips How to interpret
Goggle results
Why use Goggle?
Advanced Features
Goggle Web Dictionary
Yahoo USA
How to @Yahoo
Other Web
Guides Searching
the Web with Yahoo!
Browsing Yahoo!
Yahoo! Features -
Quick Reference
Drivers Guide
(for tech use)
About the Drivers
Guide
Web
Garage to improve a web page
Web Ring Main Page
New
website list for testing, development
and evaluation -
click on their searching tips and guide to
maximizes results.
ABOUT.COM EDUCATION - http://home.about.com/education/index.htm
Part of the new About.com serach engine, it includes over 700
highly targeted environments, each overseen by a professional
guide. Each site is devoted to a single topic, allowing the Guide
to focus on his or her expertise.
ALTA VISTA - http://www.altavista.com/
The premier one! AV includes a language translator, photo and
image finder, a family filter to block out objectionable
material, as well as one of the best advanced searches anywhere,
plus the Alta Vista Discovery that makes searching for
information more coordinated than ever.
ASK JEEVES - http://www.askjeeves.com
All directories are conceptual, AJ handles semantics and syntax
by accepting queries as complete questions taking conceptual
searches to a whole new level. If you are more verbal than
logical, go for AJ.
BEAUCOUP - http://www.beaucoup.com/
Lists by categories - very helpful if you're looking for
something new and different.
BIGFOOT - http://www.bigfoot.com/
This site is most noted for its people searches - you have an
email address, they can help you find them. Searches for Yellow
Pages listings. Check out their Neoplanet service as a way to
integrate all your web needs into one location
BRITANNICA - http://www.britannica.com/
The editors of the renowned encyclopedia harness the riches of
the Internet, categorize, rates and reviews them, and offer them
through a searchable database. Britannica can include Alta Vista
searches .
NUEVA SCHOOL Library Help
http://nuevaschool.org/~debbie/library/research/adviceengine.html
Awesome table of descriptors and the engines: some descriptor
examples: "I need a few good hits fast", "I have
an general broad academic subject and need to explore or focus
it" and "I have general key word(s) and need help
refining my search strategy".
CANTREK - http://www.cantrek.com
This site gives several 'All Canadian' links for
searching in Canada.
COLOSSUS - http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/
The monster index of search engines of the world! Colossus
is designed for studying culturally-based or language-based
information; also includes unique categories such as webmaster, christian, academic, city and
XML.
DOGPILE - http://www.dogpile.com/
The meta-search engine with the offbeat image, Dogpile
takes your query and processes it through Yahoo!, Thunderstone,
Lycos' A2Z, GoTo.com, Mining Co., Excite Guide, PlanetSearch,
What U Seek, Magellan, Lycos, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, Excite and
AltaVista all at once, and it adjusts to the peculiarities of
each. You can also look for newsgroups, stock quotes, yellow
pages, FTP sites, weather and maps.
EN - EDUCATOR'S NET - http://www.educationsearch.com/
Billing itself as "The World's #1 Education Search
Engine", EN offers 10,000+ education resources, actually
reviewing each of them - a must see!
EUROSEEK - http://www.euroseek.net/page?ifl=uk
A search tool designed specifically for finding information and
resources throughout Europe. This English URL will search in any
major European language!
EXCITE - http://www.excite.com/
A personalized directory engine that uses Intelligent Concept
Extraction to increase conceptually appropriate hits for
searches; also offers news, chat, bulletin boards, domains and a
variety of services from airline tickets to movies and personals
- the kind of site which tries to be a home base as much as a pit
stop. (Searching is no longer the pits).
EXPRESS INFOSEEK - http://express.infoseek.com/
Infoseek's dazzling new search tool which is fabulous for finding
graphics - download the free software and have its capabilities
at your fingertips whenever you need it; easy to individualize to
make it useful for your specific needs. Note, this can not be
done on Winnipeg School Division computers at this time.
FAST SEARCH USSC - http://www.ussc.alltheweb.com/
With about 200 million pages, it is currently the biggest general
Web search engine. Its rivals claim around 140 to 160 million and
is also one of the fastest. It's simple search steps are winning
many over.
FINDING INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET -(UC Berkeley)
http://lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
A tutorial from UC Berkeley which provides strategies and
information to help you focus your searches on the WWW, in
newsgroups and listservs.
FINDSPOT - http://www.findspot.com/
Tips on using the most popular indexes and directories so that
you can have the most success with the time you put into it -
great summaries.
4EDUCATION.COM - http://4education.4anything.com/
4ANYTHING.COM - http://www.4anything.com/4/0,1001,,00.html
2 unique directories that offer intuitive categories or allows
you to search more than 5,000 listings - visually stimulating
too.
GOOGLE - http://google.com/
A new contender in the search engine sweepstakes claiming to use
a sophisticated mathematical formula to find the highest quality,
most accurate searches possible from "more than a billion
hyperlinks". It also allows viewing of the cached versions
of web pages if the actual site is down when you need it.
HOTBOT - http://www.hotbot.com/
If this were a popularity contest, this index may well win hands
down. Wired Digital offers a fast, efficient tool to let teens
know 'sup'. It is certainly exhaustive in bringing back all the
stuff you're going for in searching.
INFIND - http://www.infind.com/
This is the first and only search tool that calls out in parallel
all the best search engines on the internet, merges the results,
removes redundancies, and clusters the results into neat
understandable groupings. InFind queries the best 6 search
engines on the web, but can be configured to call any search
engine and it allows you to determine how fast to return hits
too. Warning - no summaries are given, URL's only in each
classification list.
INFOSEEK - http://infoseek.go.com/
This older directory gives continued success; it may not be as
big as some of its competitors in the volume of sites it covers,
but it connects to useful resources. It is highly recommended
over the years.
KIDS CLICK - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/
If you are comfortable with the thought of a librarian directing
you towards the best resources (and who isn't?), this is a great
site for locating kid's resources; this directory is built by
librarians and narrows down the content to that which is truly
kid-appropriate - created and maintained by the Ramapo Catskill
Library System.
LYCOS - http://www.lycos.com/
In a lot of ways Lycos is just as conceptually accurate as Infoseek, but it offers some intriguing free software such as
Stock Alert and Planet Oasis, as well as a customized version of
IE Explorer and other navigation tools.
MAMMA - http://www.mamma.com/
Access with an attitude - "the mother of all search
engines"; aside from fluff like personals and horoscopes,
Mamma can give you powerful search results without having to surf
from engine to engine - especially interesting is "Mamma
Remote", a small second window you can take with you as you
surf around the web to search at any time, any place without
having to return to the main Mamma page.....now that's helpful!
NETGUIDE - http://www.netguide.com/
Emphasizes its staying current with the ever changing Web
landscape; editors of various categories serve as experts in
their disciplines to help you find satisfaction in your Net
pursuits.
NILESONLINE - http://nilesonline.com/data/
Robert Niles' site "FINDING DATA ON THE INTERNET"
offering ideas on how to successfully find what you're looking
for on the largest single information source known to mankind -
the Web.
NORTHERN LIGHT - http://www.northernlight.com/
Web resources from over 120 million sites, plus articles and
reviews from more than 5,400 periodicals dating back to 1995;
while purchasing actual materials from special content areas is
not free, it is nominal.
ONE SEEK - http://www.oneseek.com/
A meta-search tool which specializes in not only web sites
but web rings and a variety of specialized subjects; the frames
get really annoying when you want to see the actual page, but you
can get around that easy enough.
OPEN DIRECTORY - http://dmoz.org/
Formerly "New Hoo", this 'self-regulating republic'
asks netizens to volunteer as editors to recommend the corners of
the Web they know best, making for a non-commercial, populist
directory where democracy runs amuck! If you want to see the
input of the common man rather than polished experts, this site
will definitely give you a new perspective.
PINAKES - http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html
Hosted by the Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, it is
named after the catalogue of the library in ancient Alexandria,
Egypt, this site links major subjects to help make searching more
productive and successful; the newsletter for educators may also
be of interest for Higher Ed people.
PLANET CLICK! - http://www.planetclick.com/
Another attempt at populism, this directory offers sites based on
the ratings of people who visit.....participatory democracy with
a twist - the hits can be fresh and off the beaten path.
PROTEACHER - http://www.proteacher.com/
An index specifically for the cataloging of educational websites
and materials; ProTeacher is an up and coming player looking to
index the best of what's available, and you can submit worthy
URLs while you are visiting!
PROTEUS - http://www.thrall.org/proteus.html
Incredibly sophisticated site that makes use of dozens of search
engines and tailor them to an interface you are most comfortable
with; it's a little overwhelming to see all the choices it offers
you, but if you have the time and the patience the rewards are
there.
SEARCH ENGINE WATCH - http://searchenginewatch.com/
Search engine guides, status reports, facts, resources and a
mailing list to keep you up to date on what's new, what works and
why.
Searchengines.com / home page - http://www.searchengines.com/
Searchengines.com / listing - http://www.searchengines.com/searchengine_listings.html
SEARCH SPANIEL - http://www.searchspaniel.com/
Billing itself as the biggest metasearch engine on the web,
Search Spaniel offers searches through all the major search sites
with one click of a button. If you've tried Dogpile or other metasearches you should compare them to this.
SEARCHING THE WEB TUTORIAL - http://numa.niti.org/enc/
The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse's nicely organized tutorial
on making the most of Web searches, from beginner to advanced.
SPIDER'S APPRENTICE - http://www.monash.com/spidap.html
A helpful guide to web search engines that helps make searching a
more efficient, rewarding process, with up-to-date news on search
engine improvements and a ticker to show what are the most
popular search queries at any given time.
STUDENT GUIDE TO THE WWW - http://www.gis.net/~peacewp/
Made by William Peace from Cape Cod, select search engines by
subject area to facilitate successful information gathering
online
TKMs EDUCATION WEB SEARCH - http://www.tkm.mb.ca/education/
Made in Manitoba, Total Knowledge Management's
search covers all levels of education and seeks sites of interest
to educators exclusively; it's not flashy but it does offer a
unique service.
YAHOO CA http://ca.yahoo.com/
To search Canadian sites only, use this link http://ca.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Canada/
The Canadian site of the day is at http://www.maplesquare.com/canuck/
YAHOO - http://www.yahoo.com/
The original fun directory with enough common sense to keep it
useful and enough extras to keep you checking back - users come
here when they get frustrated with other searches ... it just
makes sense to many users.
YAHOOLIGANS - http://www.yahooligans.com/
Of all the kid-centered search tools, this one consistently gives
sites kids can use, usually with a few surprises. It is
recommended highly to you.
WEB CRAWLER - http://www.webcrawler.com
WEB CRAWLER -EXCITE CANADA News - http://webcrawler-news.excite.com/news/canada/
Zapper (new) - http://www.zapper.com
Take the Zapper Tour
before you download it. It is a new approach to customizing work to your
personal needs.
ZAPME! - http://www.zapme.com/net/
A grade 6-12 directory bringing you some 10,000 educational sites
on such areas as the classroom, library research , the teacher's
toolbox, news and current events and the future for students -
worth a look.
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