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Websites- Search Engines & Web Portals


Website_Title Website_URL Description Website_Author_Sponsor
Web Crawler http://www.webcrawler.com/info.wbcrwl/ Best at identifying major WWW resources or the most relevant sites for mainstream resources. InfoSpace, Inc.
Best Information on the Net http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/ An index of web sites that have been chosen both for the quality of the information provided and their appropriateness to the curriculum and mission of college students. Marylaine Block, Associate Director for Public Services of St. Ambrose University
Easy Searcher http://www.easysearcher.com/home.html A compilation of the best search engines available on the internet. These engines include the WWW engines that internet users are familiar with as well as highly specialized search engines that will only search for information on specific topics.
 
Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections http://infomine.ucr.edu/ INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.
 
Excite http://www.excite.com/ Search engine with customizable user interface. Excite.com
Google Web Directory http://directory.google.com/ Google indexed web pages organized by topic into a portal format. Google
CompletePlanet http://www.completeplanet.com/ A directory listing 89,000 searchable databases for information that is not searchable by traditional search engines. These resources are sometimes called part of the "deep" or "invisible" web. BrightPlanet, corp.
HotBot http://www.hotbot.com/ No frills search engine interface. HotBot
Internet Detective http://www.sosig.ac.uk/desire/internet-detective. An interactive tutorial on evaluating the quality of Internet resources Emma Place, Debra Hiom, Marianne Peereboom
Google http://www.google.com Google search engine has many special services and tools to help you to find exactly what you're looking for.
 
Academic Info: Educational Subject Directory http://academicinfo.net/ Subject gateway of educational resources from the University of Phoenix.
 
RefDesk.com http://www.refdesk.com/ Web portal that indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current information-based sites and assists readers in navigating these sites.
 
Lycos http://www.lycos.com/ One of the older search services on the net. Lycos
Librarians' Index to the Internet http://lii.org/ A searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 10,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. "Information you can trust."
 
LibrarySpot http://www.libraryspot.com/ Encyclopedias, maps, online libraries, quotations, dictionaries & more. StartSpot Mediaworks, Inc.
DogPile http://www.dogpile.com/ Dogpile makes searching more of the Web easier by returning the best results from these leading engines: Google · Yahoo · AltaVista Ask Jeeves · About · LookSmart Overture · Teoma · FindWhat Dog Pile
Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com/ Popular search engine and web portal.
 
Super Searchers Web page http://www.infotoday.com/supersearchers/ This page features a growing collection of links to subject-specific Web resources recommended by the world’s leading online searchers. Information Today, Inc.
Social Science Information Gateway
 
The Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) is a freely available Internet service which aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for students, academics, researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law. It is part of the UK Resource Discovery Network. SOSIG Institute for Learning and Research Technology
Yahoo en Espanol http://espanol.yahoo.com/
 
Yahoo
AltaVista http://www.altavista.com/
 

 
Ask Jeeves http://www.ask.com/ Type a question, word, or phrase, then search.
 
InvisibleWeb.com http://www.invisibleweb.com/ Use this search engine to search the "invisible web."
 

 

 

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