Searching the Internet
Subject Directories and Indexes
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Academic Info a site developed and maintained by Mike Madin.
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Table of Contents arranged by subject.
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Reference Guide divided into Gateways and Pathfinders.
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Student Center is a collection of annotated links to resources for college students from admissions to travel.
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The Argus Clearinghouse was established by librarians in 1993 as The Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides. The Clearinghouse is a virtual library of over a thousand topical guides for researchers and others with high-end information needs. It is maintained as a free service by staff at Argus Associates, an information architecture consulting firm with roots in librarianship and information science. Guides are created, submitted, and maintained by specialists from around the Internet. Argus staff selects approximately 10% of all submissions, and rates them according to five criteria before including them in the Argus Clearinghouse. All are encouraged to submit their guides for inclusion.
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Cyberstacks organizes Web resources using an established classification system -- Library of Congress Classification.
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Galaxy uses both technology and human expertise to organize web sites into relevant categories.
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ibiblio the public's library and digital archive.
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Internet Public Library has as one of its missions to provide services and information which enhance the value of the Internet to its ever-expanding and varied community of users.
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Librarians' Index to the Internet is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 4,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to the public library user's information needs. It's meant to be used by both librarians and non-librarians as a reliable and efficient guide to described and evaluated Internet resources.
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World Wide Web Virtual Library is a distributed model for creating and maintaining a massive subject directory. Responsibility for maintaining various sections is carried out by volunteers will to build and maintain them for the good of the Virtual Library.
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Yahoo is one approach at bringing a sense of order into this enormous repository of information, data and knowledge.
Searching the Web
Search Engines
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Alta Vista searches both Web pages and Usenet News groups.
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Ask Jeeves is a question-answering system allowing anyone to ask a question in plain, simple English without having to use keywords or Boolean search strings. Ask Jeeves is a trademark of Ask Jeeves, Inc., Copyright 1998 Ask Jeeves, Inc.
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Excite an Internet index and subject search service.
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FAST Search provides "All the Web, All the Time".
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Google analyzes all the content on each web page and factors in fonts, subdivisions, and the precise positions of all terms on the page. It also factors in the content of neighboring web pages which enables Google to return results that are more relevant to user queries.
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HotBot HotWired adds this Inktomi-based Internet search tool to its collection of hip tools for netizens. Advanced searches don't require any fancy search syntax.
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InfoSeek (free version)
Metasearch Engines
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MetaCrawler This highly rated metasearch tool uses one search box to wade through nine other services (Open Text, Lycos, Web Crawler, Infoseek, Yahoo, TradeWave Galaxy, Excite, Inktomi, and Alta Vista) and returns a single configured screen of results.
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Proteus is a search service with links to major search engines and to metasearch services.
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Search.com is a clearinghouse of 250 search engines
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Webcrawler America Online's resident World Wide Web site catalog is fast but not always as thorough as some other crawler sites.
Other Services
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Searching for people: Bigfoot
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Searching a directory of e-mail discussion groups: Tile.net
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Searching Usenet Newsgroups: Google groups
