- INTERNET SEARCHING TOOLS AND TUTORIALS
My Favorite
General Search Engines
- AltaVista
- Good for finding material based on the text in pages
- Excite
- Good search and generalized Web portal
- FAST Search
- Very extensive base, good prioritization
- Google
- Exceptionally good relevance based on linkage analysis
- Lycos
- One of the first and still a major
- MetaCrawler
- Searches using many search engines simultaneously, only takes the first 10-25 hits from each
- Northern Light
- Searches both general sites and proprietary databases and provides results in categories
- Teoma
- High relevance
Category-Based Search Engines
- About.com
- Links in topic areas moderated by experts
- Webring Directory by Topic
- Categories of special topics based on sites registering themselves
- Yahoo
- Most extensive category based listing done by humans
Meta-Directory Search Engines
- Search Engines and Tools Directory
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- Search Tools Compendium (Yahoo)
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- xrefer
- Search engine for 50 encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and the like
People Finder and Telephone Number Search Engines
- Address Tracker: Sam Spade
- Multiple tools for finding addresses and people
- Area Code and Decode
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- InfoSpace
- Guides to businesses, places and addresses by category
- Internet Address Finder: Email Directory
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- Investigative Resources Available on the Web from Virtual Gumshoe
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- Net Spy Intelligence Resources
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- Switchboard
- One of the most extensive databases
- Toll-Free ("800" Number) Directory
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- Toll-free ("800"Number) Directory
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- QwestdexTelephone directories
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- Worldwide Telephone Directories on the Web
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Specialized Search Engines
- Academically Oriented Searching
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- All Search Engine Finder
- Links to Ôall' search engines. Very complete
- Graphics on the Web
- Web graphics search engine
- Internet Archive of Previous Web Content
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- Life Science: PubMed
- Comprehensive search of Life Science literature from medline, National Library of Medicine
- Medical Schools in the U.S. and Canada
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- Police Officer's Internet Directory
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- Reverse Lookup
- Links to sites with all types of reverse lookups
- Scientific Information Search Engine - Scirus
- Specialized search engine from Elsevier. Covers online articles (pay and free) as well as Web sites.
- Tutorials Search Engine from FindTutorials - All Topics
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- University Homepages: American
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- University Homepages: International
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- US Government Info Index via Fedworld
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- ZIP Code Lookup
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Tools Related to Searching
- Alexa
- Browser add-on that shows related links based on usage
- Anonymous Surfing
- A tool and site for anonymous surfing thru a virtual proxy
- Automated Categorization of Web Resources
- Research oriented site from Project Aristotle dealing with various research tools and strategies
- Atomz: Free Search Engine for Any Site
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- Domain Name Tracing Tool from Internic
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- Medical Student Internet Resource Links
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- My Search Engines
- Build free personalized or local web site searching tools
- Netmechanic
- Link checking, site checking, search engine ranking, web site promotion tools
Tutorials about Searching
- Bare Bones 101
- Very basic Web search tutorial
- Effective Searching on the Internet
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- Evaluating and Comparing Web Information Sources
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- Evaluating Web Sites for Quality
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- Evaluation of Web Sources
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- Media Literacy Online Project
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- Research Strategies - Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog
- Online textbook with coverage of Web search strategies
- Teaching About the Internet (materials)
- A compendium by ARL
- Web Searching, Sleuthing and Sifting
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- Web Searching Explained
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