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Major Search Engines and Directories |
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These search engines are well-maintained and frequently updated. They are all excellent places to start searching the Web. A. Google
–best known for its comprehensive coverage of the web. Search results are ranked by relevancy of the topic. Allows searching by various options –newsgroups, media, news, images, PDF files, etc. Offers unique features such as archived web pages and the Google Toolbar. As of 2006, claims 8 billion pages and about 880 million images covered.
B. AllTheWeb.com
"An excellent crawler-based search engine, AllTheWeb provides both comprehensive coverage of the web and outstanding relevancy. If you tried Google and didn't find it, AllTheWeb should probably be next on your list. Indeed, it's a first stop search engine, for some." Its news search engine is top notch. Provides several search options, returns search results quickly and claims over 3 billion web sites. |
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C. Yahoo! – Provides its own personal features such as enhancing the search results with its own commentary and categorization. Consider doing a search from the human-compiled Yahoo Directory. As of 2005, claims to search over 20 billion web pages. Very efficient searching system.
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D. MSN Search – MSN Search has unveiled its own major search engine application. Includes over 5 billion web sites. Has a lot of sponsors advertisements in the first pages of results.
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"Unlike search engines, metacrawlers don't crawl the web themselves to build listings. Instead, they allow searches to be sent to several search engines all at once. The results are then blended together onto one page." They tend to cluster the results into categories.
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A. Vivisimo – "Enter a search term, and Vivismo will not only pull back matching responses from major search engines but also automatically organize the pages into categories. Slick and easy to use."
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B. Fazzle – "Fazzle offers a highly flexible and customizable interface to a wide variety of information sources, ranging from general web results to specialized search resources in a number of subject specific categories [such as news]." Has high speed, quality and relevant results.
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C. Pandia – lets you search the Web using several search engines in one go, including Yahoo!, MSN, AlltheWeb, Ask.com, Wisenut and more. The metasearch engine collects and sorts the hits, takes out duplicates, and presents the end result in a simple format. Also offers the Pandia Plus Internet Directory.
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" If you are still looking for news using "normal" search engines, stop doing it! You'll find the services below to be a much better way to search for the latest news stories from hundreds of sources on the web. These services provide exceptionally good results for current event searching, because they crawl only news sites and revisit these sites several times per day. Thus, the results are usually focused and timely."
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A. Google News –"Provides the ability to keyword search across thousands of news sources found through crawling the web, while also providing the ability to browse categories of news where headlines are assembled automatically." As of 9/04, searches 4,500 news sources.
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B. Yahoo! News – Similar to Google News but allows you to search by categories of news, which have been hand-assembled by Yahoo editors.
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C. DayPop – Searches thousands of newsites, weblogs (like daily diary entries on the Internet), and RSS feeds for current events and breaking news every day; allows keyword searching.
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Specialty Search Engines
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Search through specific types of subjects like finance, information, and science.
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A. Business and Financial
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InfoMine – Directory of sites pertaining to business, finance and money. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.
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CNN Money – Based on Money Magazine and CNN, offers news from various online business sources; has search feature.
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B. Information
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Information Please – Information Please almanacs are favorites among researchers who need trustworthy facts. This site allows searching across Information Please's various almanacs, its encyclopedia and its dictionary. Has a Career Center for job searching. Editor's Choice from Pandia.
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Google Answers – A program from Google that allows users to get personal answers from a professional researcher, in exchange for a fee. Offers Browse feature and Conduct search within Answered Questions feature.
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Yahoo!Answers – Free. Anyone can post a question and receive an answer from just about anyone. A very popular tool. Keeps a log of over 40 million questions and answers that can be searched.
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Wikipedia – An online encyclopedia that boasts over a million entries. Most are freely editable by the public. Exists in more than 200 languages.
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C. Science
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Scirus – Best specialty science search engine on the web; journals, web, pdf, etc.
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Evaluative Search Engines
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Academic Info – Rich selection of about 25,000 pages, selected as "college and research level Internet resources" aimed "at the undergraduate level or above." Brief annotations. Lots of sponsors diminish the value of the website. Begin your search under the Table of Contents option in middle of page.
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Infomine – 110,000+ well-annotated and catalogued sites for academic research (as of 9/04); compiled by librarians. A virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.
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Librarian's Internet Index: Websites You Can Trust – is a publicly-funded website and weekly newsletter serving California, Washington state, the nation, and the world; dozens of high-quality websites carefully selected, described, and organized by a team of librarians. Includes 20,000 entries organized into 14 main topics and nearly 300 related topics. Also offers a weekly e-newletter.
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1 (some information is taken from http:// www.searchenginewatch.com)
smc 2/04, rev 11/04; 8/06 |
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