Internet and Web Searching Guide
Overview
Provides quick access to selected Web search engines, subject directories, metasearch and invisible search engines, and a guide to search engines. Provides brief description of each resource.
Web Search Engines
Currently the largest and most popular search engine for the web. Return set is ranked by relevancy. Advanced ways of searching available.
This was the original "natural language" search engine, known as Ask Jeeves, and is still one of the best. There are several choices such as Web search, images, news, and more.
One of the first major search engines with entries dating back to 1980. Both a simple and advanced Web Search with options for Images, MP3/Audio, Video and News plus a translation tool called Babel Fish and a useful internal toolbar.
Powered by Yahoo, this engine has a Google-like search box as well as advanced search options, pictures, and media searching.
Powerful search engine, first available in 2000, with ability to cluster Web search results. Will provide document clustering through an internal algorithm called Clusty linked from the Vivisimo home page.
"With over 350 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information. "
Web Directories
Also known as dmoz, "the Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web." Constructed and maintained by over 75,000 volunteers.
The oldest Web directory is still one of the best and uses its own search engine. The advanced search goes to the Web search screen. Yahoo provides a standard Web search engine at AlltheWeb.
Has general portal page with selected categories on the left and a detailed Browse by Topic search link that provides major categories along with often requested search topics.
ipl2: Information You Can Trust
In 2010 the collections of the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII) were merged. Ask an ipl2 Librarian servic will answer reference questions.
The Internet Public Library is a searchable directory by categories plus a "Grok" the IPL (clustering) and traditional search. The directory has subject collections, ready reference, a "reading room," KidSpace, TeenSpace, special collections, searching tools--each of which has multple links to Web resources.
MetaSearch and Invisible Web Engines
"A free metasearch engine and virtual reference desk accessing tens of thousands of academic reference and research sites recommended by teachers and librarians."
Web Site Analysis
"Pandia is a gateway to Web searching, and can offer you several sections devoted to Web search tools and resources, search engine news and reviews."