David Magier's
Robotic Indexes and Web Searching Bookmarks
1-7-09
Internet Training & Consulting
comments to:
magier@columbia.edu
Robotic Indexes and Search Engines
Searcher
: The Magazine for Database Professionals
InfoSearcher: newsletter for curriculum/technology integration
The Annotated Guide to WWW Search Engines
Search Engine Guide
: The guide to search engines, portals, and directories
Boolean Searching on the Internet
(Laura Cohen, Univ. of Albany)
"Gagged by Google"
(from AlterNet.org, May 30, 2002).
Internet Teaching Library Tutorials
(UC Berkeley)
Main Tutorial Table of Contents
Things to Know Before You Search
Searching the Web: Strategies, Analyzing topic, Choosing tools
How to Choose the Search Tools You Need
(tool tables and comparisons)
MetaSearch Engines: When and how to use them
Bare Bones 101: Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web
(Univ. of South Carolina Beaufort Library)
Search Engine Watch
: a Webmaster's Guide to Search Engines (Calafia)
Update to Search Engines Compared
(Diana Botluk. See also the
PDF version
.)
Search Engine Comparison Tables
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Feature Comparison Chart of the Favorite Search Engines
(UC Berkeley)
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Search Engine How To... (strategy comparison tables)
(U. of Oregon)
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Seach Engine Showdown
(Greg Notess)
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Search Engine Feature Comparison Charts
(Search Engine Watch)
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Summary of Search Engine Features
(fr. How to Search the Web, by Terry Gray)
See also:
Selected Search Tools, Indexes & Site Lists
Google
iLOR "Research Engine"
Dogpile Metasearching
KartOO
(metasearch engine with graphical interface)
AskJeeves
(structured metasearch engine, using natural language queries)
IxQuick MetaSearch
ProFusion Metasearch
WebFile
(metasearch engine)
SURFnet search tools
(metasearch engine)
Best Search Engines
(metesearching via Kresch)
Freeality Internet Search
Monster Crawler
(metasearch engine)
WebCrawler Home Page
Excite
Lycos
HotBot
(from Lycos)
Mamma: Mother of all Search Engines
Overture Search
Alta Vista
Eureka
Teoma
Starting Point
RiceInfo: Finding Resources by Keyword
(Rice University)
W3 Search Engines
Hytelnet Search
LibDex - The Library index
(index of OPACs)
Usenet Newsgroup Archive Searching
ARCHIE servers
(for looking up FTP files)
Archie Gateway
(Internet Initiative Japan)
List of Archie Servers
(outdated)
Looking up individuals (and companies)
Switchboard (name/org lookup)
WhitePages.com
(includes powerful reverse lookup phone directory)
Yahoo! People search
WhoWhere
Verizon SuperPages
ComFind
YellowPages
(Canadian)
Internet Address Finder
Bigfoot Home Page
Biography.com
(A&E Television Network.)
Database contains over 25,000 short biographies. No links to related external internet resources).
GPS Visualizer: geographic calculators & converters
SearchMil.com
(search engine covering over 1 million military web pages in the .mil domain)
SearchGov.com
(search engine covering US federal, state and local government web pages in the .gov domains)
SearchEdu.com
(search engine covering "over 20 million university and education pages indexed and ranked in order of popularity..."
General clip-art and sounds searcher for the web
Corbis
(Microsoft Photo Archive and image search)
Place Names: thesauri, gazetteers, etc.
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Directory of Cities and Towns of the World
(FallingRain)
Geograph Nameserver
USGS Geographic Name Search
AudioFind
(free digital music file finder. Uses Gnutella search system).
Gnute network search
(direct peer-to-peer file-sharing system, for freely sharing music, images, software, etc. utilizing the Gnutella protocols).
RxList
(searchable database of 4,500 prescription drugs)
Songtext.net: The International Lyrics Server
(searchable database of song lyrics - requires free signup)
Leo's Lyrics Database
Scholarly Societies - Global Search Engine
(lookup scholarly organizations worldwide)
The Internet Movie Database
Zip+4 Lookup Database
(US Postal Service)
Sam Spade
(domain name, IP and anti-spam search tools)
