Searching the Net

General Sites detailing how to Search

Searching the Internet Effectively explains how to use 8 different search engines. (LII)
Search Engine Guide "Currently lists over 2000 search engines in a Yahooesque searchable subject index. This site also includes links to search engine software, newsletters, USENET newsgroups appropriate to searching, and more."
Search Engine Tutorial a comprehensive guide to using search engines.
Bare Bones 101: A Very Basic Web Search Tutorial created by the Head Librarian at the University of South Carolina-Beaufort campus
Web Search Engines FAQS: Questions, Answers, and Issues ""reviews the latest goings on in the search world and tries to provide some suggestions and tools to make you more knowledgeable and save you some time"" (SR)

Search Engines

• Alta Vista (a search engine).
• All Academic: The Guide to Free Academic Resources Online "This professionally designed academic search engine and index offers a searchable database of scholarly articles and a browseable list of alphabetized links to online journals all available at no charge on the Web."
• All The Web
• Dan's No Overhead Search Thingy A good search site for users with slow or expensive Internet connections.
• FAST Search Quick, easy, with lots of sites indexed, this search engine hopes to index the entire web.
• Google! uses simple keyword searching
• HotBot
  
• Information Please An online almanac and search engine.
• Internet.Com Search Engine for Internet Professionals
• Free ISBN search search for books by their isbn.
• Lycos (a search engine).
• Monkey Sweat quick search engine.
• Official Find "Official Find is a Search Engine that makes it easy to find the Official Web Sites of top brands and companies. We have the largest database of Official Sites on the net!" (LIB)
• Political Information.com A targeted search engine for political and policy sites.
• Scirus " a new scientific information search engine developed by Elsevier Science and powered by FAST Search and Transfer"
Search Both this search site lets you search two search engines at the same time and puts the results in boxes next to each other so you can compare them. (DS)
• Search4Science
• Search EDU This search engine limits searches to .edu sites.
• Search MIL This search engine searches military sites.
• Search GOV Limits searches to .gov sites
• Search Engine Z for serious searchers.
• Slider this site also includes an encyclopedia.
• SurfWax This search engine lets you refine your search with focus words.
• Teoma gives results "three ways: Web pages, Web sites grouped by topic, and "topic experts."" (RB)
• Time Search "designed to allow you to search for information based on time with location or theme." (RB)
• Top Click This search engine promises no ads on your search result page.

Subject Directories

• Google Web Directory Search for sites by category and get a ranked listing of sites.
• Librarian's Index to the Internet Annotated links chosen by librarians.
• Pinakes: A subject launchpad
• Yahoo. (a subject directory).

Meta-search Engines

• Dogpile
• Gnosh "Gnosh is a meta-search tool. Gnosh pulls morsels from all over the web and organizes them on one plate for you." (IRN)
• Ixquick Metasearch "indexes fourteen search engines and directories"
• Mamma
• MetaEureka This site has no graphics, no weather, nothing but search results. It searches 5 different search engines and return 20 hits per.
• Pandia Search Central A new portal which includes search tools and guides.
• Savvy Search
• SearchBug.com 'This handy site brings together some of the most common searches and places them at your fingertips.'
• Search-22: Reference Searches "A directory of Internet searches and more....With one user-friendly form you can start your searches directly from one spot." (LII)
• Vivisimo sorts results into folders, lets you search a number of different engines.

Country Specific and Regional Search Sites

• Search Engine Colossus "this metasite offers links to a large number of country- or region-specific search engines. The search engines are organized by country, with a link to the service, the language(s) it uses, its point of origin, and a short description when available."
• Search Engines Worldwide "an extensive list of search engines and directories, 850 from 130 nations, listed alphabetically by country."
• For Arabs Searchable subject index of Arabic and Arab-interest web sites.
• Al Bawaba "Available in both Arabic and English, this gateway links users to a wide variety of sites and resources from and about the Middle East."
• Asia SourceNews and information about Asia
• France from Alta Vista- A search index covering French sites
• France from Google
• Germany from Google
• Google Ireland (RB)
• Italy from Alta Vista- A search index covering Italian sites.
• Korea from Alta Vista-A search engine index covering Korean sites.
• Netherlands from Alta Vista-A search index covering The Netherlands.
• New Zealand from Alta Vista
• Spain from Alta-vista A Search index covering Spain.
• United Kingdom from Google
• WoYaa"a resource for both the African continent and individual countries that make up the continent."

Other Search Sites

• Best Free Reference Web Sites ""This is an index of the web sites included in the 1999-2006 annual lists issued by the Mars Best of Free Reference Web Sites Committee of the Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of ALA to recognize outstanding reference sites on the World Wide Web." Browsable by title. Includes links to annotations and to selection criteria. LII is listed. From the American Library Association (ALA)" (LII).
• Cheats for Games (RB)
• Deja.com
• Find Articles "The site offers free access to the full-text of articles published in over 350 magazines and journals dating from 1998."
• FirstSearch
• GuideStar Your guide to finding Nonprofit organizations.
• Google search of Government Sites
• Langenberg Search Another gateway site to search engines, this one puts the different search engines into categories
• Magazine Portal Search for magazine articles.
• Public Records Maintained by Pacific Information Resources, this site links to many free public record sites.
• InfoTrac
• Social Science Search Engine One of the best search engines for the Social Sciences.
• Meta Search Engine for Human Rights

To see the review sources used see our Review Source Page

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