Directories
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Help | Specialty Search Engines
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If the Internet were a book, search
engines would be the index.
Which search engine you use and how well you use it
determines the success of your search. There are
three types of search engines: directories or catalogs,
general search engines or web indexes, and meta-search
engines.
Typically, a search engine works by sending out a
program called a spider to fetch as many documents as
possible. Another program, called an indexer, then reads
these documents and creates an index based on the words
contained in each document. All search engines have
help screens, which have information about searching
techniques. |
| search engine
top picks |
Listed below are Auraria Librarian and
staff top search engines: |
| About.com
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about.com is a portal site that contains
approximately 700 subject areas. Each subject has a
subject expert; free downloads, news and other information. |
| all
the web |
A joint project of Transfer (FAST) and
the Dell Computer Corporation; do a Web search that
includes all media types, MP3 and FTP searching too.
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| Alta
Vista |
One of the largest and most comprehensive
search engines available, Alta Vista searches the entire
HTML file. Use Babel Fish to translate languages; Also
search for images, MP3/audio, videos, products and entertainment.
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Dogpile |
Searches the Web using Yahoo!, Lycos,
excite, GoTo.com, PlanetSearch, Thunderstone, Lycos,
WebCrawler, InfoSeek, Excite, AltaVista; FTP sites
and Usenet news groups may also be searched. |
Google |
Find maps, phone numbers, U.S. Government,
Linux, Apple, Universities, & BSD. Winner of the
2000 SearchEngineWatch Award. |
| HotBot
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HotBot enables users to sort results
by date or media type such as JavaScript or Shockwave.
You can also choose filters. |
| Metacrawler
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People find, yellow pages, investor
resources and a powerful meta-search engine that goes
to other search engines to find a match. |
| Scirus |
Launched by Elsevier Science, the leading
international publisher of scientific information, Scirus
because Focuses only on web sites containing scientific
content and searches both free and journal sources. |
| Yahoo!
|
Yahoo! directory is an online guide
to the World Wide Web. It is created by a staff of editors
who visit and evaluate Web sites, and then organize
them into subject-based categories and sub-categories. |
Directories | General
Search Engines | Images | MetaSearch
Engines | Search Help | Specialty
Search Engines
Directories
| AnyWho
Directories Search for 1-800 numbers.
Argus Clearinghouse
A selective collection of topical guides designed by
librarians.
INFOMINE Scholarly
Internet Resource Collections based on Library of Congress
Subject Headings (LCSH).
Lycos Internet guide,
by subject.
Open Directory
Project Sites are selected, categorized, and annotated
by "volunteer editors."
Yupimsn.com Yupi.com
es un Portal que ofrece su motor de búsqueda que enlaza
con mas de 150 millones de páginas web, 12 canales de
navegación organizados por tema (por ejemplo, noticias,
deportes, entretenimiento, salud, etc.), anuncios clasificados,
foros de discusión y tarjetas virtuales.
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General Search Engines
excite Concept searching
is a strong feature for narrowing down the search.
Invisible Web
Calls itself "the search engine of search engines,"
this site indexes over 10,000 databases, archives, and search
engines.
LookSmart
Teoma Teoma analyzes
the Web "as it is organically organized"-in naturally-occurring
communities that are about or related to the same subject-to
determine which sites are most relevant".
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MetaSearch Engines
Ixquick Ixquick searches
many prominent engines simultaneously (in parallel). Search
for web page searches, news, MP3 and pictures.
Researchville
Enter your query just once, and search over 130 databases,
including today's news.
Search.Com Search over
250 search engines.
Webcrawler Search
multiple engines at once: Google, FAST, Ask Jeeves and Inktomi.
Webtaxi Enhances the
existing capabilities of current versions of Netscape Navigator,
and was developed to offer efficient point and click
access to search engines, newsgroups and thousands of hard-to-reach
databases.
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Search Help
| A Few Search Tips
Spelling. Spelling counts. If you
spell a word incorrectly, you will only bring up other
incorrectly spelled words. Also, if there are multiple
spellings of a term, use all of them to bring up appropriate
sites, for example: Qadhafi, Gadhafi, Qaddafi.
Help Screens. Learn to read and use
help screens-they are the keys to being able to search
the web effectively.
Capitalization. Use lower case to
match words in either upper or lower case. For exact
matches (usually in the case of proper names, like New
York) use the upper case.
Evaluate. Know your sources for information.
Who is the author or the organization represented? Be
critical and double check information.
Be Specific. Use the most specific
term, for example use the term Poodle instead of dog.
Looking for Articles? Start with
the Databases
page at Auraria Library. Search engines are NOT very
useful for finding articles in published sources.
The following sites also contain valuable help on
how to effectively search the WWW!
Guides to Specialized
Search Engines
False
Oracles: Consumer Reaction to Learning the Truth About
How Search Engines Work
Internet
Navigation
Search Engine
Watch The latest news on your favorite search engines.
Searching the Internet
@ Scout
Search
Tools Tips on smart searching.
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Specialty Search Engines
| Domain Searching
Amnesi Search
for a domain name when you don't remember the exact
name.
Anonymizer
Anonymously search the Net.
AskReggie
A search engine that searches the InterNIC Whois database.
SearchEdu.com
Over 20 million university and education pages indexed
and ranked in order of popularity.
SearchMil.com
Search for military Web pages.
Government
Federal Web Locator
Search for federal agencies on the Web.
FedWorld Search
federal agency Web sites.
GILS
Government Information Locator Service.
Google Uncle
Sam Retrieves state and local government publications.
SearchGov.com
Images
Alta Vista
Also search for images, MP3/audio, videos, products
and entertainment.
Colorado
Digitization Project Access to digital images made
available by Colorado's libraries, museums, archives
and historical societies.
Fagan Finder
Footage.net A
powerful gateway to over 1.6 million indexed shots,
which include stock, archival, and news footage.
Gograph.com
A graphics database to several thousand animated GIF's,
icons, photos, and clip art.
Google image search
Historical
Photography Collection At Denver Public Library;
contains more than 50,000 historic photographs
online.
Images from the
History of Medicine From the National Library of
Medicine.
Lycos RichMedia
Search for TV, music, radio, video and FTP files.
Perseus Image
Browser Located at Tufts University; the image
browser allows access to more than 30,000 images in
several ways.
The
Picture Collection From Time, Inc., is a commercial
site with pictures and images for sale.
Smithsonian
Online Collections Access to the digitized image
collections from the Smithsonian's museums, archives,
and libraries.
Smithsonian:
Science Service Historical Image Collection, 1926-1976;
Collection of images with their original captions from
Science Service.
UNESCO
Publications - Photobank
WebSeek
A video tool for the Web.
News & People
CataList
Browse any of the 27,000 public LISTSERV lists on the
Internet, search for mailing lists of interest, and
get information about LISTSERV host sites.
Deja.com Search
newsgroups @ google.
SpeechBot
An experimental index of popular US radio shows.
SwitchBoard
Find businesses, people and email addresses.
WebCrawler People
find, stock quotes and Daily Toolbox.
WebExhibits
Software Related Engines
Adobe PDF Online
From Adobe, a search engine that indexes over one million
.pdf documents.
FTP Search Search
for FTP files.
Lycos MultiMedia
Search for TV, music, radio, video and FTP files.
Women
FeMiNa Girls and
women online.
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