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 Search Engines & More

Research is formalized curiosity; it is poking and prying with a purpose.  Zora Hurston  


* Meta Search Engines
* Smaller Search Engines 

    *Directories  (subject directories are compiled by humans, not robots or spiders)
    *Education Links
    *Encyclopedias
    *Foreign Language Search Engines 

    *How to use search engines from Bare Bones
    *Library Gateways (Gateways are assembled & recommended by specialists)
    *Libraries
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Magazine Links
    *Miscellaneous
    *Newspapers
    *News Stations
    *Using the Web Tutorial


Meta Search Engines

Search Engine Watch - Get the latest scoop on search engines & subscribe to monthly newsletters. Read reviews, ratings and tests.  See top 50 searches for the week.  http://www.searchenginewatch.com/


All-In-One:  
Over 500 of the Internet's best search engines, databases, indexes, and directories in a single site.   http://www.allonesearch.com/

All-Purpose search -http://ixquick.com/  Search for pictures, MP#s, News of the Web

Bighub.com     a specialty-subject  engine   http://www.thebighub.com/

Dogpile - meta search engine  http://www.dogpile.com

iLor - a "Research Engine" that lets you create a list of links to visit without ever leaving the page results http://ilor.com/

Inference Find - the fast parallel Web search http://www.infind.com/

Invisible Web search by subject http://www.invisibleweb.com/

Ixquick - search in any language for pictures, text, or MP3 http://www.ixquick.com/

Metacrawler meta search engine  http://www.metacrawler.com

MSN Web Search   http://home.microsoft.com/access/allinone.asp

800  Meta Search Engine   http://www.800go.com

Profusion  Excellent engine - quick too   http://www.profusion.com/

Savvy SearcCNET Editors' Choice    http://savvysearch.com/

SurfWax


Smaller Search Engines

My personal two personal favorites are   iwon.com  & http://about.com/

AOL search   http://www.aol.com                                                       

About.Com -Over 650 specific topic areas contain original articles, selected websites,  and community features  like chat rooms. Each area is overseen by an "expert guide" trained by About.com.     http://about.com/

Alta Vista   http://www.altavista.digital.com

Ask Jeeves :  fun, interesting & helpful   http://www.AskJeeves.com.

Britannica.Com   - From the editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Includes encyclopedia articles,  selected news and magazine articles, and over 125,000 selected websites on all topics.   http://www.britannica.com/

Delphi Search   http://www.delphi.com/

Direct Hit.com - search for anything, recipes, movies, stock, clip art,  general information   http://directhit.com/

Excite   http://www.excite.com

Google - a recently launched search engine that retrieves only pages that match all of your keywords, so you get less junk & more useable stuff
http://google.com/

Go To:  A quick & easy engine    http://www.goto.com/

ICQ     http://www.icq.com

Infoseek  http://www.infoseek.com

Iwon.com  Each time you search, you have the opportunity to win $10,000
http://www.iwon.com/home_page/

Look Smart.Com  (I love this search engine)
It has a databases of over 250,000  selected and reviewed quality sites
http://www.looksmart.com/

Lycos:  indexes over 90% of websites.  It allows you to search FTP and Gopher sites, but not Usenet Newsgroups    http://www.lycos.com

Magellan   http://magellan.excite.com/

The Mining Company    http://www.miningco.com/

NBCi.com - a fun place - includes links to Classic Movies, Game Center, AutosCareers, Family  Health Local  Money  Sports  Tech  TravelMore...
http://home.nbci.com/

NetGuide    http://www.netguide.com

Newscape Net Search    http://home.netscape.com/escapes/search/netsearch_0.html/

Northern Light - PC Magazine's Editor's Choice - Claims to search the largest database of  Web pages on the planet!  http://www.northernlight.com/

Raging Search  - the world's largest wireless Web http://ragingsearch.altavista.com/


Signpost:  From the editors of the Scout Report at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Librarians and educators have selected more than 8,000 websites for their value to the education community  
http://www.signpost.org/signpost/

Snap  http://www.snap.com

Starting Point  http://www.stpt.com

Teoma.com Teoma delivers three types of search results. Try it!

Web Pages:  
Authoritative sites relevant to search term.
Web Pages by Topic:  
Top result pages are grouped based on their topics.
Experts' Links:  
Pages contain directories of links for related general subjects.
http://teoma.com/

Webcrawler:    Subject tree and key word searching   http://www.webcrawler.com

Yahoo   
http://www.yahoo.com

Yanoff's Internet Services List:  Selective collection of guides to academic subjects
http://sirius.we.lc.ehu.es/internet/inet.services.html

Yep  The First Search Engine to Rank Sites by Usability and Popularity.   http://www.yep.com


Directories

Subject directories are created by humans & not electronic robots.  Editors review sites according to criteria they have set up.  Many resources are annotated.

Argus Clearinghouse: The Internet's "Premier" Research Library.  A directory of subject guides, each containing links compiled by experts in their fields!  a great starting place-   links have been evaluated and screened for academic usefulness   http://www.clearinghouse.net/

Ask ERIC Virtual Library: Includes database.
http://ericir.syr.edu/

Backwash.com - A Web directory organized by personality types http://backwash.com/

DMOZ - a subject-based directory http://www.dmoz.org/

Excite (Protal)

Galaxy:  A database of subject-classified links     http://www.einet.net/

Infomine:  Scholarly Internet Resource Collections : 10,000 subject-classified links - searches multiple databases.    http://infomine.ucr.edu/

Internet Public Library: An award-winning site - includes lit criticism, writing helps...   http://www.ipl.org/

Library Cat: A guide to hundreds of online libraries
http://www.metronet.lib.mn.us/lc/lc1.cfm

LookSmart

Magellan

NBCi.com (Portal)

Open Directory Project

Purdue's Virtual Library - Links to  many online journals by academic subject    http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/vlibrary/index.html

Scholarly Journals Distributed on the WWW an alphabetical listing of links   http://info.lib.uh.edu/wj

University of California - reference site   http://www.lib.uci.edu/rraz/genref.html

World Wide Web Virtual Library - with search tool
http://conbio.rice.edu/vl/database/

Yahoo!


Education Links

Adjunct Instructor Resources A treasury of information intended for adjuncts, from court cases, to texts to searches

American Association of Community Colleges - up-to-date articles , professional development database,  convention info...

Chronicle of Higher Education: it is the Bible of higher ed and its Web site contains daily news stories on relevant topics.  Useful features include sections on distance education and academic grant competitions.

College info from Education  Department www.ed.gov:   Info on Financial  aid & tells who is available, how to ap0ply & how to pay back loans. Includes education headlines

Connecticut Department of Education - interesting articles, info on grants, teaching, request for proposals, nutrition...   http://www.state.ct.us/sde/

Disciplinehelp.com -  Tips on handling over 100 misbehavior problems

Discovery School: Fresh ideas for teachers & students to enhance learning http://school.discovery.com/

Educational Theory - Excellent links to over 50 educational learning theories http://home.sprynet.com/~gkearsley/tip/theories.html

Education Search  Over 20 million university and education pages indexed and ranked in order of popularity   http://www.searchedu.com/

Education Virtual Library    http://vlib.org/Education.html

Education Virtual Library Maintained by Charles Strutt University  see 2 of their many links  below: 
[Visit the Top 50 Educational Sites]

Search the Education Virtual Library

http://www.csu.edu.au/education/library.html

 

Electronic School - up-to-date reading

ERIC - Educational Science Resource Center - an excellent database http://www.accesseric.org/home.html

Hot Topics in Education from Michigan Electronic Library
http://mel.lib.mi.us/education/edu-hot.html

NASA's online educational resources http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/oer

National Association for Developmental Education.
http://www.umkc.edu/cad/nade/index.htm

National Teaching & Learning Forum -. Includes the Interactive Faculty Salary Database, which allows you to compare your recompense with that of peers in your state, your region, or the nation. There's also a link to Houghton Mifflin's very own Faculty Development Programs site.

Noel &Levitz - national conference on retention - excellent information

Northeast MLA link

On Coursework.com.  Excellent tips to improve student success & college retention

Online Education WWW server  http://www.online.edu/

Publishers -

Harcourt Publishers/Mcgraw  Hill  1800 237 2665
- Houghton MifflinFaculty Services toll-free at 800-733-1717.
Prentice Hall 1 800 922 0579 http://www.prenhall.com

Service Learning on the World Wide Web.

Social Science Gateway to Education  -below is a sampling of some of their links:
Adult Education +
Conferences
Educational Policy
Educational Theory
Resource Guides
http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/education/


Teaching Resources maintained by the University of Toronto

United States Department of Education - search topics from A-Z

United States Department of Education -  Home page -Excellent articles, information & links

University of Toronto - Classroom management Helps

University of Toronto - Journals on education & education research

 


Foreign Language Search Engines

 

Alta Vista - Search in any language  from their home page  http://www.altavista.com/

Awesome Library    Search for information in a few languages  http://www.awesomelibrary.org/

Direct Hit World - search in any language - excellent http://www.directhit.com/categories/catbrowse.asp?alias=catdrill&pgsz=20&csort=alpha&catkey=Top/World

French - Read daily news in French & use their French search engine  
http://personal.lycos.de/personal/fr/

Ixquick - search in any language for pictures, text, or MP3 http://www.ixquick.com/

Google.com - search in any language -Google index: 1,060,000,000 web pages
http://www.google.com/

Spanish Search Engine  - Find information and articles  written in Spanish 
http://www.radar.com.mx/

Spanish Search Engine - from Yahoo   http://espanol.yahoo.com/

Spanish Search Engines - a listing of numerous Spanish Search Engines
http://clnet.ucr.edu/library/bplg/search.htm#Espanol


Libraries

Ask ERIC Virtual Library: Includes database.  http://ericir.syr.edu/

Awesome Library  http://www.awesomelibrary.org/

Bibliotheque de France (French counterpart of Library of Congress)
http://www.bnf.fr/site_bnf_eng/index.html

Internet Public Library :  Contains magazines, serials, newspapers, online texts, Web searching     http://www.ipl.org

Fossick.Com - guide to many libraries http://fossick.com/eText.htm

Library Cat: A guide to hundreds of online libraries
http://www.metronet.lib.mn.us/lc/lc1.cfm

Librarians'  Index to the Internet - an incredible listing!
http://www.lii.org/

Library of Congress
http://catalog.loc.gov/

Library Spot - Excellent - encyclopedias, genealogy tools, newspapers, literary criticism, speeches, poetry, museums, music, quotations, yellow pages, homework help, age-appropriate resources... mapshttp://www.libraryspot.com/

Purdue's Virtual Library - Links to  many online journals by academic subject    http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/vlibrary/index.html

WWW Virtual Library: This is the "largest subject catalog."   Each main subject page is maintained by a specialist in the subject area.  It is aimed at both the general and research-oriented audience
http://www.vlib.org/

World Wide Web Virtual Library - with search tool
http://conbio.rice.edu/vl/database/


Library Gateways

Library gateways are assembled, reviewed and recommended by specialists - usually librarians.  Sites are  high quality. Includes items from Invisible Web Catalog,

Academic Information
AlphaSearch
Argus Clearinghouse
Digital Librarian
Gary Price's Direct Search
Infomine
Internet Public Library
Librarians' Index to the Internet
WWW Virtual Library

Miscellaneous     

Academic Information:  A wealth of information  & links on numerous topics   http://www.academicinfo.net/index.html

Ancient Thespians - An excellent guide    http://ancientthespians.com/

This Argus Clearinghouse: an excellent starting point for research guides. Its audience  is a research and university audience. They call themselves, "The Internet's Premier Research Library."    http://www.clearinghouse.net/

Hyperlinked Internet Resources compiled by Margaret, a librarian
http://www.clever.net/cam/error.html

Media: Browse for information by media category – newspaper, magazine, radio, syndicate, television. http://www.mediainfo.com/emedia

Popular Categories.com - Links to various subject areas
http://www.popularcategories.com/index.html

Query server      select the search engines you want  http://www.queryserver.com/web.htm

Reference Desk:  Contains everything from Bartlett's Quotations, Roget's Thesaurus, Webster's Dictionary, World Fact Book to encyclopedias, virtual newspapers and news organizations from throughout the world, first facts...   <http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html>

Research Counts - Breaking information from Harvard

 

 SUBJECT-SPECIALTY SEARCH TOOLS

Sparknotes.com - "Cliffnotes" from Harvard  students & graduates- check it out - good supplemental reading   http://www.sparknotes.com/

Stetson  University site: Includes a tutorial on the Internet, search engines, library catalogs, reference books online, journals online, subject indexes for business, the humanities, social science and science  http://www.stetson.edu/departments/library/ref.html

University of South Carolina Beaufort Library
http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/bones.html - A basic tutorial on searching the web.

Web's top 100 sites

World Lecture Hall- Links to many subjects maintained by the University of Texas
http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/


News Stations

Search for information on news  stations  


ABC News up-do-date news and more   <http://www.abc.com>

CNN Interactive site   http://www.cnn.com         

Foreign news TV - includes links to
ForeignTVNews
ForeignTVIsrael
ForeignTVSingapore
ForeignTVSpain
ForeignTVMexico
ForeignTVGermany
ForeignTVChina
    & more
http://foreigntv.com/worldnews/

Fox up-to-date news    <http://www.foxnews.com>

MSNBC up-to-date news<http://www.msnbc.com/news/default.asp>

Weekendtoday.com from MSNBC

Text Archives

http://www.etext.lib.virginia.edu  Electronic Text Center - University of Virginia Library

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby  Project Bartleby Archive

http://www.promo.net/pg  Project Gutenbertg

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