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Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial
Search Engine Features Chart
- Google
- Google Scholar
search specifically for scholarly literature, incl peer-reviewed papers,
articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, academic publishers,
professional societies, preprint repositories, universities, web
- Search Engines - Google Directory
- Search Tools Portal - Librarians' Index to the Internet
- Online Reference Services
- Answers.com
- Ask.com
- Atomica
- HighBeam Research
books, articles, maps, images
- InfoPlease
freeware, point-and-click searches in any application while online
reference-based search engine
- Meta-Search Engines
- AllInfo
"searchable directory of topics focused on web site credibility"
- Beaucoup - Subject-Specific Search Engines
- Cnet's Search.com Search Engines
- Collection of Specialized Search Engines
- EzineSeek - Ezine Directory and Email Publishers' Resources
academic & recreational by subject
- FinderSeeker
finds subject-specific search engines by country
- Grokker
visual web search engine
- The InvisibleWeb
search & directory site for databases not searched by general web search engines
- Metacrawler
- Search Engine Colossus - International Directory of Search Engines by Country
- "Search Thingy" - Top Ten Search Engines - One search
- Vivisimo
'clustering engine'
- Search Engines
- All the Web
- AltaVista
includes image, audio and video searching
- The Big Eye
subject index | search engine | country links
- The Complete Guide to Googlemania
- DirectHit.com
returns results based on site usage
- DogPile
- Forum One - Online Forum Searching, Building, Managing
- Go.com
- Google
ranks results by number of hits and time spent at site
- Google Groups
search engine for internet newsgroups
- Google Suggest
lists suggestions as you type, navigable with arrow keys, helpful with spelling & if only the first word
or two of a name or expression are remembered
- HotBot
incl images search option
- LookSmart
- Lycos
incl. images search option
- MetaCrawler Searching
combines 6 major search engines
- MSN Search
- Netscape
- Northern Light
- Oingo
meaning-based searching
- Search Adobe PDF Online
searches PDF files and provides summary
- SearchHound
search engine and web site traffic counter
- Search Terms Glossary
browsable list of terms associated with searching & search engines
- Wikiseek: Search Wikipedia and its external links
restricted search to retrieve more authoritative info & limit effect of spam & search engine optimization
schemes
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