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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Blackle Blackle is a green-friendly, energy-saving search engine. White and light screens require more energy for monitors to display than do black and dark screens. Blackle is powered by Google Custom Search.
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AllTheWeb Utilizing Yahoo search technology and indexes, AllTheWeb fast searching includes billions of web pages, and millions of PDF and MS Word® files with freshly scanned web content that ensures fresh information and valid links. AlltheWeb offers a variety of specialized search tools and advanced search features supporting 36 different languages. The News search offers up to the minute news from thousands of news sources across the globe, with hundreds of stories indexed every minute. Image, audio, and video searches include hundreds of millions of multimedia files.
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Alta Vista provides search features and capabilities that include multimedia, translation & language recognition, and specialty searches. Alta Vista provided the first Web index in 1995, as well as multilingual, image, audio, and video search capabilities. Alta Vista has been awarded 61 search-related patents.
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Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves) is a question-answering system allowing simply written queries that retrieve results using the ExpertRank algorithm, which identifies the most authoritative websites by determining subject-specific popularity. ExpertRank identifies topics, topic-experts, and the popularity of millions of pages amongst those experts to retrieve highly relevant results.
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eHow The eHow™ database contains over 250,000 help articles and more than 180,000 professionally written articles providing clear and concise directions. If you become a member, you can comment on articles and interact with other members through social networking tools.
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Exalead searches the web, your pc, images, video, Wikipedia, and more.
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Excite a web portal offering comprehensive search tools.
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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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Hakia Semantic web search, bringing search results from credible sites recommended by librarians.
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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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Scitopia free federated search portal to the digital libraries of leading science and technology societies
Metasearch Engines
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Clusty queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking. This "metasearch" approach helps raise the best results to the top and push search engine spam to the bottom. Rather than delivering millions of search results in one long list, Clusty groups similar results together into clusters that help you see your search results by topic so you can zero in on exactly what you’re looking for or discover unexpected relationships between items. Rather than scrolling through page after page, the clusters help you find results you may have missed or that were buried deep in the ranked list.
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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 top results from popular search engines. WebCrawler® was the first fully indexed search engine on the Web created by Brian Pinkerton at the University of Washington. In 2001, WebCrawler joined InfoSpace, which also owns and operates metasearch engines Dogpile and MetaCrawler, and provides the search results for Excite.
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Zuula is a customizable meta search service providing results from your favorite search engine unaltered, so you can check those first and then those from other search engines simply by clicking on their tabs. Zuula offers Web, Image, Video, News, Blog, and Job searches. Easily set your preferences for each search type and search engine, and in what order.
Other Services
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Searching for people: Wink
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Searching a directory of e-mail discussion groups: Tile.net
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Searching Usenet Newsgroups: Google groups
