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Table of Contents
Glossary
Familiarity with the following vocabulary may facilitate your web search.
- directory: a subject index - an attempt to catalog and organize the web
- meta search engine: uses a single interface to provide simultaneous searching of the most popular search engines
- search engine: uses software programs known as robots, spiders or crawlers to search the web and build a database of sites
- specialized search sites: these are search engines or portals that only search very specific kinds of information (e.g Computer Science or Law)
- webliography: site with lots of links by subject - organized by humans
Internet Searching Techniques & Helpful Hints
Bare Bones 101: A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web
University of South Carolina
Evaluating Web Resources
Widener University
Finding Information on the Internet: A TUTORIAL
University of California, Berkeley
Guide to Effective Searching of the Internet
Visual Metrics Corp
Dudley Knox Library Internet Guides
Searching the Web More Efficiently
Searching the Deep Web
The following represent some of the available search sites organized by category. Many others are available. Suggestions for
additions are welcome.
Search Engines & Search Tools
All The Web
Alta Vista
Ask.com
Go.com
- Google
- Google Help
HotBot
- Lycos
- Lycos Help
Engine Colossus
Search Engine Colossus offers you links to search engines and directories from 198 countries and 60 territories around the
world
Soople
An interface to Google's search engine that makes using its advanced search features easier.
Meta Search Engines
AllinOne MetaSearch
BigHub
- Dogpile
- Dogpile Help
Excite
Internet Sleuth
- Ixquick
- Power searching
- Mamma.com
- Power search
Metacrawler
Search Enginez
Tools to find people, translations, books and more
Vivísimo
Searches multiple search engines and organizes the results into meaningful groups
- Web Crawler
- Web Crawler Help
ZapMeta
Specialized Search Sites
Government & Military
Google Patent Search
Search the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Google US Government Search
Searches only government sites
GovEngine.com
Directory of official federal, state, and local government information sites.
International relations and Security Network (Center for Security Studies)
This is a LASE (Limited Area Search Engine) that captures and indexes the pages from 3500 internet sites of interest in
the areas of international relations and security policy.
Military Domains Search Engine
SearchMil.com
Over 1 million military pages indexed
SearchGov.com
Special Forces Search Engine
USA.gov
One-stop access to all online U.S. Federal Government resources
- Multimedia
- Alltheweb
- Pictures
Video
Audio
- Alta Vista
- Audio Search
Image Search
Video Search
FindSounds
Finding Images on the Web
Boston University
Google Image Search
picsearch
Picsearch is a search engine for pictures and images.
News
Alltheweb News
Google News
Google News presents information culled from approximately 4,500 news sources worldwide and automatically arranged to present
the most relevant news first.
Pandia Newsfinder
Provides headlines, summaries and links to articles from some of the best news sites on the Internet, including BBC, CNN,
MSNBC, Yahoo, The Washington Post, NewsHub and Moreover.
RocketNews
Search for current news.
Yahoo News
Research
AERADE
Portal to aerospace and defense resources on the Internet
Business.com
Search engine and directory for business information.
CiteSeer Scientific Literature Digital Library
CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library that provides algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in
other digital libraries. CiteSeer indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web.
Engineering Web: the Engineering Search Engine
GLOBALSPEC
The Engineering Web makes it faster and easier for you to research topics, products, and services by limiting your search
to technical and engineering-related Web sites.
ETDE World Energy Base
ETDEWEB is a product of the Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDE), a programme of the International Energy Agency (IEA)
- FindLaw
Topical organization of links to internet legal resources
- FindLaw Help
Google Book Search
Search the full-text of books.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books,
preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide
variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles
available across the web.
Intute: Science, Engineering & Technology
Provides access to web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists. It
covers the physical sciences, engineering, computing, geography, mathematics and environmental science.
Political Information.com
Searches the political web -- think tanks, public policy, lobby groups and politician web sites
Regional Search Engines
Organized by world region, these are search engines and directories that are devoted to various countries and regions of the
world.
Science.gov
Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research
and development results.
Scirus
Internet search tool developed specifically for finding scientific information.
scitopia.org
Federated search portal to the digital libraries of leading science and technology societies.
STINET MultiSearch
A portal to the Deep-Web for Scientific & Technical Information.
The Virtual Chase : Legal Research on the Internet
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP
WorldWideScience.org
Federated searching of national and international scientific databases
Other
Google Blog Search
Search for blogs on topics of interest
Google Groups
Google Groups Help
Searches Usenet news groups
Google's University Search
Enables you to narrow your search to a specific school website.
International Search Engines
iTools
NeighborhoodScout
Please see library staff for password NeighborhoodScout is a neighborhood search engine for homebuyers and a full-service
real estate resource center. It provides customized relocation information - including exclusive school rankings, crime rates,
and lifestyle searches - to help consumers nationwide find their ideal neighborhoods, connect with Realtors to buy or sell
homes, view home listings, and save on financing and moving services.
SearchEdu.com
Over 20 million university and education pages indexed
SearcheBooks.com
The Invisible Web
CompletePlanet
Locate search engines and databases on the web
Direct Search
Direct Search is a growing compilation of links to the search interfaces of resources that contain data not easily or entirely
searchable/accessible from general search tools like Alta Vista, Google, and Hotbot.
FedStats
FedStats provides access to official statistical information available to the public from the Federal Government. Use FedStats
to track economic and population trends, education, health care costs, aviation safety, foreign trade, energy use, farm production,
and more. Access official statistics collected and published by more than 100 Federal agencies without having to know in advance
which agency produces them. All of the statistical information available through FedStats is maintained and updated solely
by Federal agencies on their own web servers.
IncyWincy: The Invisible Web Search Engine
Invisible Web: What it is, Why it exists, How to find it, and Its inherent ambiguity
U.C. Berkeley
OAIster
[Oyster] is a union catalog of digital resources
Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed
Robert Lackie
WorldWideScience.org
WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway connecting you to national and international scientific databases. It was
developed and is maintained by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). Users get the most current findings
in fields such as energy, medicine, agriculture, environment, and basic sciences, published by contributing nations.
Subject Directories & Webliographies
Air War College Gateway to Internet Resources
Digital Librarian
A librarian's choice of the best of the Web.
Infomine
Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
Internet Public Library
Librarians' Internet Index [LII]
Science.gov
Science.gov provides a gateway to information resources at the U.S. government science agencies. It contains selected authoritative
science Web sites and databases of technical reports, journal articles, conference proceedings, and other published materials.
Scout Report
The Internet Scout Project, funded through the National Science Foundation, is designed to guide U.S. higher education to
quality electronic resources. A compendium of over 10,000 full-text searchable Scout Report summaries, with 3700 entries listed
by 37 LC-indexed subjects.
- Search.com
- Search.com Help
WWW Virtual Library
- Yahoo!
- Yahoo! Help
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