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| Search Engines |
Google
The yardstick against which other search engines are measured. Google is the favorite of many
searchers & with good reason; the ranking system based upon site linkages works! The Google
Directory & News pages are also excellent resources.
Answers.com
"The world's greatest encyclodictionalmanacapedia" -- Answers.com is your one-step guide to
the initial research process, & often comprehensive enough for the research itself. It contains
only up-to-date, accurate definitions & explanations from authoritative sources. Best of all, with a
"cite" button next the copyrights at the bottom of each page, you'll be able to prepare a
bibliography in a snap.
Exalead.com
The Exalead search engine currently offers two types of search: 1) Web search: search the entire
Web for information in different formats (web sites, Word documents, .pdf files, etc.) & 2) Image
search: search for photographs, illustrations and icons from all over the Web.This search engine
is unique in providing a thumbnail view of each found site. It also provides suggestions to refine
your search. For Web searches, choose among three different result displays: text only,
thumb-nail preview images with short descriptions, or thumbnails with extended descriptions.
The choice is yours! Simply click on the desired View icon to change the display.
Clusty.com
Queries several top search engines, combines the results, & generates an ordered list based on
comparative ranking. This "metasearch" approach helps raise the best results to the top & push
search engine spam to the bottom. What makes Clusty unique is instead of delivering millions of
search results in one long list, it groups similar results together into clusters. Clusters help you
see your search results by topic so you can zero in on exactly what you're looking for.
Ujiko Visual Search
Shows your search results within an oval menu with an open center section where the user can
flag specific results as relevant. The open section center is used to add information to the
results. Colored blocks help the user identify clusters. The more you use Ujiko, the more
functions it is able to offer.
Bing.com (Microsoft Live Search)
Microsoft's search engine offers some innovative features, such as the ability to view additional
search results on the same web page & the ability to adjust the amount of information displayed
for each search result (i.e. just the title, a short summary, or a longer summary.) It also allows the
user to save searches & see them updated automatically on Live.com.
Quintura
A visual search engine which displays a cloud of tags as well as search results. When you hover
over a tag, you see a pre-visualization of the search. Click on the words in the cloud to discover
popular search topics or search the Web.
Ask.com
Provides "Smart Answers" right at the top of the search results. Offers one-click links to narrow
your search, expand your search, & provides links to results for related terms. Search for images,
news, maps & directions, local, weather, encyclopedias, dictionaries, blogs, & RSS feeds.
Contains fewer ads than Google.
All the Web
This big, fast search engine has a new look with enhanced live search capabilities. Search for
PDF files, MS Word files & text within Flash files. There is also a searchable news database
which covers more than 3,000 web news sources.
iSeek Education
A targeted search engine compiling hundreds of thousands of authoritative resources from
university, government, & established noncommercial providers. It provides time-saving
intelligent search & a personal Web-based library to help you locate the most relevant results
immediately & find them quickly later. iSeek Education resources are selected for quality & are
subject to review by leading educators & it also searches deeper than traditional engines to
produce the most specific & relevant results.
Ixquick.com
"The world's most powerful metasearch engine" -- Search results are more comprehensive &
more accurate. Ixquick's unique capabilities include a "Universal Power Search," a global search
and "power refinement."
InfoMine
InfoMine is the home of scholarly Internet resource collections built by librarians at the University
of California. It contains useful resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic
books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directors of
researchers, & many other types of information.
Intute
Discover the best & most relevant Web resources in this database for education & research. All
material is evaluated & selected by a network of subject specialists from 7 universities.
Google Scholar
Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search
across many disciplines & sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts & articles,
from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities & other
scholarly organizations.
DogPile.com
One of the best metasearch engines, DogPile presents your results in a very organized fashion.
Also includes audio, video, images, yellow & white pages.
Ixquick.com
"The world's most powerful metasearch engine" -- Search results are more comprehensive &
more accurate. Ixquick's unique capabilities include a "Universal Power Search," a global search
and "power refinement."
Yahoo.com
Yahoo is a directory rather than a typical search engine. This means that a human being has
assembled the links, not just a computer.
The yardstick against which other search engines are measured. Google is the favorite of many
searchers & with good reason; the ranking system based upon site linkages works! The Google
Directory & News pages are also excellent resources.
Answers.com
"The world's greatest encyclodictionalmanacapedia" -- Answers.com is your one-step guide to
the initial research process, & often comprehensive enough for the research itself. It contains
only up-to-date, accurate definitions & explanations from authoritative sources. Best of all, with a
"cite" button next the copyrights at the bottom of each page, you'll be able to prepare a
bibliography in a snap.
Exalead.com
The Exalead search engine currently offers two types of search: 1) Web search: search the entire
Web for information in different formats (web sites, Word documents, .pdf files, etc.) & 2) Image
search: search for photographs, illustrations and icons from all over the Web.This search engine
is unique in providing a thumbnail view of each found site. It also provides suggestions to refine
your search. For Web searches, choose among three different result displays: text only,
thumb-nail preview images with short descriptions, or thumbnails with extended descriptions.
The choice is yours! Simply click on the desired View icon to change the display.
Clusty.com
Queries several top search engines, combines the results, & generates an ordered list based on
comparative ranking. This "metasearch" approach helps raise the best results to the top & push
search engine spam to the bottom. What makes Clusty unique is instead of delivering millions of
search results in one long list, it groups similar results together into clusters. Clusters help you
see your search results by topic so you can zero in on exactly what you're looking for.
Ujiko Visual Search
Shows your search results within an oval menu with an open center section where the user can
flag specific results as relevant. The open section center is used to add information to the
results. Colored blocks help the user identify clusters. The more you use Ujiko, the more
functions it is able to offer.
Bing.com (Microsoft Live Search)
Microsoft's search engine offers some innovative features, such as the ability to view additional
search results on the same web page & the ability to adjust the amount of information displayed
for each search result (i.e. just the title, a short summary, or a longer summary.) It also allows the
user to save searches & see them updated automatically on Live.com.
Quintura
A visual search engine which displays a cloud of tags as well as search results. When you hover
over a tag, you see a pre-visualization of the search. Click on the words in the cloud to discover
popular search topics or search the Web.
Ask.com
Provides "Smart Answers" right at the top of the search results. Offers one-click links to narrow
your search, expand your search, & provides links to results for related terms. Search for images,
news, maps & directions, local, weather, encyclopedias, dictionaries, blogs, & RSS feeds.
Contains fewer ads than Google.
All the Web
This big, fast search engine has a new look with enhanced live search capabilities. Search for
PDF files, MS Word files & text within Flash files. There is also a searchable news database
which covers more than 3,000 web news sources.
iSeek Education
A targeted search engine compiling hundreds of thousands of authoritative resources from
university, government, & established noncommercial providers. It provides time-saving
intelligent search & a personal Web-based library to help you locate the most relevant results
immediately & find them quickly later. iSeek Education resources are selected for quality & are
subject to review by leading educators & it also searches deeper than traditional engines to
produce the most specific & relevant results.
Ixquick.com
"The world's most powerful metasearch engine" -- Search results are more comprehensive &
more accurate. Ixquick's unique capabilities include a "Universal Power Search," a global search
and "power refinement."
InfoMine
InfoMine is the home of scholarly Internet resource collections built by librarians at the University
of California. It contains useful resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic
books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directors of
researchers, & many other types of information.
Intute
Discover the best & most relevant Web resources in this database for education & research. All
material is evaluated & selected by a network of subject specialists from 7 universities.
Google Scholar
Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search
across many disciplines & sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts & articles,
from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities & other
scholarly organizations.
DogPile.com
One of the best metasearch engines, DogPile presents your results in a very organized fashion.
Also includes audio, video, images, yellow & white pages.
Ixquick.com
"The world's most powerful metasearch engine" -- Search results are more comprehensive &
more accurate. Ixquick's unique capabilities include a "Universal Power Search," a global search
and "power refinement."
Yahoo.com
Yahoo is a directory rather than a typical search engine. This means that a human being has
assembled the links, not just a computer.
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