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Internet Search Engines

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Google

Currently the largest and most popular search engine for the web. Return set is ranked by relevancy. Advanced ways of searching available.

Google Scholar 

This service from Google searches scholarly literature, including articles, theses, books and technical reports from many areas of research. Some materials are free, some will be available to WMU users by clicking on Find it @WMU, while others will require a fee. Please remember to use library databases for a more complete search of scholarly literature.

Bing

New search engine from Microsoft, it makes an extra effort to help searchers with some targeted topics, such as shopping, travel and health research.

Yahoo Directory

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.

AlltheWeb

Powered by Yahoo, this engine has a Google-like search box as well as advanced search options, pictures, and media searching.

Ask

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.

GlobalSpec

An engineering search engine that enables one to search online product catalogs, companies, parts (by part number), material properties, websites and standards. Includes some free eBook content. Free registration is required.

Scirus 

"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. "

Scitopia

An engineering/science related search engine that indexes peer-reviewed scholarly articles, conference papers, technical reports, government documents and patents. Documents are included from 20 different scholarly engineering societies.

Vivisimo

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.

WolframAlpha

One of the newer search engines that bills itself as a computational knowledge engine. "Enter your question or calculation, and WolframAlpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer."

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