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Searching the World Wide Web 

Selected Search Engines

Single Search Engines | Meta Search Engines | Specialized Search Engines | Invisible Web | Directories | More About Search Engines

Single Search Engines

Ask This is a link to another web site
http://www.ask.com
Offers different types of search results depending on the nature of the search query.

Goodsearch
 This is a link to another web sitehttp://www.goodsearch.com
Gives money to the charity of your choice with each search.

Google This is a link to another web site
http://www.google.com/
Returns results with high relevance and a short summary.

Vivisimo
 This is a link to another web sitehttp://www.vivisimo.com
Organizes search results by clustering similar Web pages; eliminates very long lists of results.

Yahoo This is a link to another web site
http://www.yahoo.com
Combines quick searching with directories and categories of Web sites.

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Meta Search Engines

Dogpile This is a link to another web site
http://www.dogpile.com/
Utilize various search services to look for web pages, newsgroup posting, software, and news.

Mamma - The Mother of All Search Engines This is a link to another web site
http://www.mamma.com/
Searches a variety of engines, directories, and deep content sites, formats the search request for each, puts the search results in a virtual database, removes duplicates, and displays results according to relevance.

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Specialized Search Engines

These are Web sites that look for very specific types of information.

Google Scholar This is a link to another web site
http://scholar.google.com
Searches for scholarly material, including journal articles. Is connecting from off-campus, connect through the proxy server. Then in your search results, you will see "OLINKS" links, which you can use to see if you can get the full text of any journal article.

USA.gov This is a link to another web site
http://www.usa.gov
This is the U.S. government's official portal to federal and state information online. It offers a subject directory as well as a search engine that will search federal, state, or a particular state's Web sites.

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Invisible Web

CompletePlanet This is a link to another web site
http://www.completeplanet.com/
Searches over 100,000 databases and specialty search engines.

IncyWincy - Invisible Web Search Engine This is a link to another web site
http://www.incywincy.com/ 
Rich directory of sites organized by topic, as well as a powerful search engine.

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Directories

INFOMINE This is a link to another web site
http://infomine.ucr.edu
University-level Internet resources, including databases, electronic journals, e-books, online discussion lists, bulletin boards, directories of researchers, and more.

Internet Public Library This is a link to another web site
http://www.ipl.org/
Provides access to high quality Internet sites, evaluated by librarians.

Librarian's Index to the Internet This is a link to another web site
http://lii.org/
Searchable, annotated directory of over 10,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians.

Scout Report Archives This is a link to another web site
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/archives/
Searchable and browsable archives of over 13,000 critically reviewed items from the last 7 years of the Scout Report.

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More About Search Engines

Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need This is a link to another web site
http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html
Nice table that matches a typical information need to a search strategy and search service. This is a link to another web site

How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory This is a link to another web site
http://www.internettutorials.net/choose.html
A detailed listing of numerous features and the search engines and directories that support them. One in a series of Internet tutorials from University at Albany, SUNY.

Search Engine Showdown This is a link to another web site
http://searchengineshowdown.com/
Compares and evaluates search engines from the end-user perspective.

Search Engine Watch This is a link to another web site
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/
Provides information, comparisons, reviews, tips and more for users as well as web masters and marketers.

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