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SEARCH
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Selected Internet
Subject Directories
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| Subject Directory
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Database
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Boolean
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Other Search
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Miscellaneous
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| Librarians' Index
to the Internet
lii.org
Advanced Search
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Resources useful to public library users, evaluated & annotated by
librarians.(9,000+).
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AND (default), OR, NOT, Nesting ( ).
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Stems (can turn off in Advanced)* to truncate.
Fields: subject; title; description; link. Also author;
publisher in Advanced.
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Ranked:
Best of...
Directories
Databases
Specific Resources
Browse list of all subjects used.
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Yahoo
www.yahoo.com
Search defaults to Inktomi if nothing found in Yahoo.
Advanced Search
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Submitted Web pages (2 million+)
Topic & region specific Yahoos - Kids (Yahooligans), Japan,
SF Bay, etc.
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+ to require.
- to remove.
AND (default), OR (options
only)
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Quotes for phrase.
* to truncate.
Fields:
t:title; u:URL
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News: hourly
Stocks: etc.
Sports: scores, etc.
Maps, Weather
Ratings
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INFOMINE
infomine.ucr.edu
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Scholarly Internet resources, selected and annotated by UC librarians.
(15,000+).
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AND (default), OR, Nesting ( ).
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Automatic truncation.
Fields:
subject; title; or keyword.
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Can search all Databases or by specific one.
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Britannica.com
britannica.com
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Full-text of Encyclopedia Britannica (72,000+ articles)
Rated and annotated Web sites (125,000+).
Full-text articles from 70+ magazines.
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+ to require.
- to remove.
OR (default), AND, ADJ w/in 15 wds),
Nesting ( ).
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Quotes for phrase.
* to truncate.
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Can sort Web's Best Sites results by topic.
Sites rated (1-5 stars).
Related Books to Barnes & Noble.
News from Washington Post.
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Selected Internet
Meta-Search Engines
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| Meta-Search Engine
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Database
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Boolean
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Other Search
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Miscellaneous
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MetaCrawler
www.metacrawler.com
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Searches AltaVista, Excite, Google, Infoseek, Lycos, Yahoo, LookSmart,
About.com, and more. Can customize.
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+ to require.
- to remove.
AND (all) - default, OR (any), PHRASE.
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Quotes for
phrase.
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Also searches Newsgroups.
MetaSpy shows most recent searches
by others.
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Ask Jeeves
www.ask.com
Also has Ask Jeeves for Kids.
www.ajkids.com
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Answers to millions of questions from evaluated sites.
Searches AltaVista, Goto.com, WebCrawler, Excite, and About.com.
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No Boolean - use natural language.
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Quotes for phrases is useful for metasearch results.
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Good for simple questions.
Use Remove Frames feature to see URL of search result.
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Selected Internet Search
Engines
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| Search Engine
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Database
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Boolean
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Other search options
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Miscellaneous
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Google
www.google.com
Subject Directory (enhanced
Open Directory).
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Full text of Web pages (200 million)
Caches indexed pages - great for finding 404s
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AND - default.
+ only to include
stop
words.
- to remove.
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Quotes for phrase.
Fields:
link:
Uncle Sam (.gov
& .mil)
Can search within subject directory categories.
10 languages.
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Ranks searches based on number of links to a page. Best for
relevancy of results.
Similar pages - finds related sites
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AltaVista
www.altavista.com
Advanced
Search (Best to use).
Raging Search (Google copy attempt).
Subject Directory (Open Directory & LookSmart).
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Full text of Web pages (200 million)
Ask Jeeves question answers (1-2 million)
Usenet group postings (14,000)
RealNames corporate, product finder.
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+ to require.
- to remove.
Phrase (if detected) then Fuzzy
OR - default.
Advanced Search only: AND, OR, AND
NOT, NEAR, Nesting ( ).
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Quotes for phrase.
* to truncate.
Case-sensitive.
Can use "natural" language.
Limit by date, language.
Fields:
domain: host: image: title: url: link: like: anchor:
applet:
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Automatic phrase detection
Spell checker
Services: Image,
Audio
& Video
Search, Translations (5
languages), International
Searches
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AllTheWeb
www.alltheweb.com
Advanced Search.
No Subject Directory.
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Full text of Web pages
(550 million+)
RealNames corporate, product finder.
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+ to require.
- to remove.
Advanced Search: OR (default), has template equal to AND,
OR, NOT
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Quotes for phrase.
No truncation.
Advanced Search: limit by language, text, title, link name, URL,
link to URL
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In Advanced Search: Can filter by Top-Level Domain or by
specific Web site (e.g. loc.gov, sony.com)
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Thanks to the InfoPeople
Project for allowing us to adapt their HTML code for use
on our search
pages.
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