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Contents
About Search Engines ||
Search Engines ||
Meta-Search Engines
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About Search Engines and Directories
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Boolean
Searching on the Internet
http://library.albany.edu/internet/boolean.html
A primer on Boolean logic includes how search engines use it and how Internet
searchers should use it to improve retrieval.
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Internet
Search Engines
http://library.albany.edu/internet/engines.html
From the University of Albany Libraries, this gives brief descriptions
of major single search engines, meta-search engines, and speciality search
engines that search for only for sites about one subject or search sites
for images. Another part of the site contains a table showing How
to Choose a Search Engine or Directory depending upon what type of
file you want to find (audio, video), what kind of search logic you want
to use (full Boolean, applied Boolean), or what features you want to use
(exact phrase searching, case sensitivity, automatic truncation, etc.).
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Search
Engine Showdown
http://searchengineshowdown.com
Bills itself as The User's Guide to Web Searching and provides search
features, analyses, and tips.
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Search
Engine Watch
http://searchenginewatch.com/
Find Web Searching Tips; Search Engine Listings; Reviews, Ratings, and
Tests; a Search Engine Newsletter (registration required); and how to
submit Web sites to search engines.
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Search
Engines Quick Guide
http://infopeople.org/search/guide.html
By Carole Leita of the InfoPeople project in California, this page provides
brief overviews of major search engines such as Google, AllTheWeb, Alta
Vista, Northern Light, HotBot, and Excite. Another guide, the Search
Tools Chart provides additional detailed information about Internet
Subject Directories, Search Engines and Meta-Search Engines.
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Watching Google Like a Hawk
http://www.watchinggooglelikeahawk.com/
Provides news and commentary on Google and its search policies, rankings, etc.
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Search Engines and Directories
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These are in alphabetical order. Appearance in
this list does not indicate endorsement by Pius XII Memorial Library or Saint Louis
University.
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AllTheWeb
http://www.alltheweb.com
Searches one of the largest collection of Web sites. Option is available
to repeat search for MP3 files, FTP files, and images. Just beginning
to place advertising on the pages.
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AltaVista
http://www.altavista.com
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Excite
http://www.excite.com/
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Google
http://www.google.com/
A comprehensive, accurate, fast, and uncluttered search engine that currently
searches the largest number of pages. Results are displayed
in order of relevance and importance. Also searches for words
in PDF documents. Try one of Google's special search features,
Google Uncle Sam [http://www.google.com/unclesam]
that searches only U. S. Government Web sites or
Google's University Search
[http://www.google.com/options/universities.html]
that searches only college and university Web sites.
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Google Web Directory
http://directory.google.com/
The directory that accompanies the Google Search Engine.
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HotBot
http://www.hotbot.com/
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INFOMINE
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
From the Libraries of the University of California, this Web directory
and search engine is devoted to searching "academically valuable
resources."
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Lycos
http://www.lycos.com
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overture
http://www.overture.com/d/home/
Former GoTo search engine.
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Three Special Domain Search Engines: Each searches only the indicated domain.
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SearchEdu.com
http://www.searchedu.com
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SearchGov.com
http://www.searchgov.com
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SearchMil.com
http://www.searchmil.com
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Search Adobe PDF Online
http://searchpdf.adobe.com/
Adobe provides the ability to search over a million summaries
of PDF files on the Web. Currently, service is for demonstration
only. (6/10/00)
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WebCrawler
http://www.webcrawler.com/info.wbcrwl/
Returns the best results from the following search engines: Google .
Yahoo . AltaVista . Ask Jeeves . About . LookSmart Overture . Teoma . FindWhat
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Yahoo
http://www.yahoo.com
The oldest major Web site directory and the most popular. Employs human
editors who compile, select, and index Web sites by hand.
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Meta-Search Engines
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Ixquick Metasearch
http://www.ixquick.com/
Bills itself as "the World's Most Powerful Metasearch Engine".
It searches across 11 search engines: AOL, Altavista, EuroSeek,
Excite, Fast Search, GoTo, Hotbot, LookSmart, MSN, Webcrawler, and Yahoo.
It displays results based on a star system where each star represents
a top-ten listing in one of the eleven search engines. User may
choose which search engines to include in your search and select what
to search: the Web, News, MP3, or Pictures.
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MetaCrawler
http://www.metacrawler.com/index.html
Simultaneously queries such engines such as AltaVista, DirectHit Excite,
FindWhat, GoTo, and LookSmart, ranks by relevance, and displays by category.
You many re-execute the search for types of files by clicking on the
appropriate tab such as "Images". This is one of the first
"meta" search engines.
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METAEUREKA
http://www.metaeureka.com/
Seaches and provides results from many web search engines such as AltaVista,
AlltheWeb, HotBot, and Yahoo. Site contains no advertising, news,
weather, etc.
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Last updated February 7, 2007.
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