Web Search Engines
- Search Engines & Directories | Meta Engines | Special Sites
- Search Engines & Directories
- AltaVista
http://www.altavista.com
- Created by DEC, AltaVista is also the home of an on-line translator, Babelfish.
- Exalead
http://www.exalead.com/search
- This new search engine was still in beta testing as of June 2006, when it was still 1/8 the size of Google or Yahoo. However, clicking the "advanced search" button produces unprecedented web search options, like field delimiting, boolean searching, and country limits. It is also possible to restrict the search to only those documents that were modified after a certain date.
- Excite
http://www.excite.com
- Customizable portal site.
- Google
http://www.google.com
- Current frontrunner in total size, Google now claims to search over 2 billion Web pages.
- HotBot
http://www.hotbot.com
- Founded by the staff at Wired magazine and now partnered with Lycos, HotBot has a powerful, customizable search template that allows searching for unusual site aspects like the presence of graphics and JavaScript.
- INFOMINE
http://infomine.ucr.edu
- Internet resources of relevance to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. Contains links to databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, listservs, online library card catalogs, articles and directories of researchers.
- Lycos
http://www.lycos.com
- Customizable portal site.
- Yahoo!
http://www.yahoo.com
- From its California origins, Yahoo! made a name for itself by using human indexers to compile its directories.
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- Meta Engines
- Ask Jeeves
http://www.askjeeves.com
- While sometimes confused by it, Jeeves can accept queries in natural language format.
- Dogpile
http://www.dogpile.com
- Metacrawler
http://www.metacrawler.com
- WebCrawler
http://www.webcrawler.com
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- Special Sites
- Search.com
http://search.com
- CNET is a computers and networking site whose staff has compiled a directory of over 800 engines and also includes meta searching.
- Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com/
- Enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
- Copernic
http://www.copernic.com
- This meta engine searches a variety of engines, but is first downloaded onto your own computer (free; more sophisticated versions can be purchased).
- FirstGov
http://firstgov.gov
- The federal government's gateway to all pages created and maintained by United States departments, offices, bureaus, and agencies.
- The Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org
- The Internet Archive, working with Alexa Internet, has created the Wayback Machine, which uncovers older or now-obsolete versions of Web pages. Simply enter an URL to travel back in time and view the Web as it once was. This site also archives moving images and audio. In some cases, it is the only source in the U.S. for a rare or censored scholarly video.
- Librarians' Index to the Internet
http://www.lii.org
- A searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 8,600 Internet
resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. LII is used by both librarians and the general public as a reliable and efficient guide to Internet resources.
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