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About Search Engines
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Boolean Searching on the Internet
http://library.albany.edu/internet/boolean.html
A primer on Boolean logic includes how search engines use it and how Internet searchers should use it to improve retrieval.
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Internet Search Engines
http://library.albany.edu/internet/engines.html
From the University of Albany Libraries, this gives brief descriptions of major single search engines, meta-search engines, and speciality search engines that search for only for sites about one subject or search sites for images. Another part of the site contains a table showing How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory depending upon what type of file you want to find (audio, video), what kind of search logic you want to use (full Boolean, applied Boolean), or what features you want to use (exact phrase searching, case sensitivity, automatic truncation, etc.).
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Search Engine Showdown
http://searchengineshowdown.com
Bills itself as The User's Guide to Web Searching and provides search features, analyses, and tips.
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Search Engines Quick Guide
http://infopeople.org/search/guide.html
By Carole Leita of the InfoPeople project in California, this page provides brief overviews of major search engines such as Google, AllTheWeb, Alta Vista, Northern Light, HotBot, and Excite. Another guide, the Search Tools Chart provides additional detailed information about Internet Subject Directories, Search Engines and Meta-Search Engines.
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Watching Google Like a Hawk
http://www.watchinggooglelikeahawk.com/
Provides news and commentary on Google and its search policies, rankings, etc.
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Search Engines & Directories
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AllTheWeb
http://www.alltheweb.com
Searches one of the largest collection of Web sites. Option is available to repeat search for MP3 files, FTP files, and images. Just beginning to place advertising on the pages.
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AltaVista
http://www.altavista.com
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Excite
http://www.excite.com/
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Google
http://www.google.com/
A comprehensive, accurate, fast, and uncluttered search engine that currently searches the largest number of pages. Results are displayed in order of relevance and importance. Also searches for words in PDF documents. Try one of Google's special search features, Google Uncle Sam [http://www.google.com/unclesam] that searches only U. S. Government Web sites or Google's University Search [http://www.google.com/options/universities.html] that searches only college and university Web sites.
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Google Web Directory
http://directory.google.com/
The directory that accompanies the Google Search Engine.
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INFOMINE
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
From the Libraries of the University of California, this Web directory and search engine is devoted to searching "academically valuable resources."
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Lycos
http://www.lycos.com
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WebCrawler
http://www.webcrawler.com/info.wbcrwl/
Returns the best results from the following search engines: Google . Yahoo . AltaVista . Ask Jeeves . About . LookSmart Overture . Teoma . FindWhat
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Yahoo
http://www.yahoo.com
The oldest major Web site directory and the most popular. Employs human editors who compile, select, and index Web sites by hand.
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Meta-Search Engines
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Ixquick Metasearch
http://www.ixquick.com/
Bills itself as "the World's Most Powerful Metasearch Engine". It searches across 11 search engines: AOL, Altavista, EuroSeek, Excite, Fast Search, GoTo, Hotbot, LookSmart, MSN, Webcrawler, and Yahoo. It displays results based on a star system where each star represents a top-ten listing in one of the eleven search engines. User may choose which search engines to include in your search and select what to search: the Web, News, MP3, or Pictures.
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MetaCrawler
http://www.metacrawler.com/index.html
Simultaneously queries such engines such as AltaVista, DirectHit Excite, FindWhat, GoTo, and LookSmart, ranks by relevance, and displays by category. You many re-execute the search for types of files by clicking on the appropriate tab such as "Images". This is one of the first "meta" search engines.
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METAEUREKA
http://www.metaeureka.com/
Seaches and provides results from many web search engines such as AltaVista, AlltheWeb, HotBot, and Yahoo. Site contains no advertising, news, weather, etc.
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Last updated December 20, 2007. |
