Search Engines
by Jan Jungk
August 18, 2008
Try several search engines to see the differences between them. You'll soon find some favorite search engines that you will use most often. However, don't forget that each search engine will come up with different results, so be sure to know a little about several search engines and directories. A collection of search engines organized by category at Search Engine Watch lists choices in various categories (major search engines, metacrawlers, specialty search engines, kids search engines, etc.
- IMSA Search Engine- excellent tool for student researchers to locate information
- Yahoo
- HotBot
- Excite
- Jump City best of the Web keyword-searchable and listable in a variety of ways.
- Lycos Easy to use, especially when refining searches, allows selecting pictures, sounds, etc.
- Reference.com- Advanced search capabilities of archive of publicly-accessible mailing lists, news-groups, etc.
- Snap
Other Scholarly Sites-
- Databases available for the school district. See the librarian for authorization and password before using these resources located at Online Books using Online Card Catalog.
Metasearch Engines
- All4one -allows simultaneous searching of 4 search engines
- Dogpile
- Metacrawler
- WebCrawler - huge, well-organized and easy to use but lacks site details
Subject Directories
- About.com
- Profusion
- Open Directory
- Qango
- Yahoo or Yahooligans Huge, easy to use web directory without a detailed description of the sites.
Arts and Art History
- Mark Harden's Artchive
- Artcyclopedia
- Art History Network
- Art History Resources on the Web
- Getty Research Library
- Library of Congress Performing Arts Collection: Music, Theatre and Dance
- Mother of All Art History Links Pages
- National Archives (NARA)
- SIRIS (Smithonian Institution Research Info System)
- Women Artist's of the American West
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For K-1 kids who don't read. |
For schools and libraries- an excellent site. |
Homework Help |
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- Search Engine Watch Tutorials - good site to learn all about search search engines.
- Boolean Search
strategies
Overview of Searching the Web with Search Engines, Subject Indexes, directories, meta-search tools. - How to Critically Evaluate Web Information
- Quoting,
Paraphrasing, and Summarizing- Online Writing Lab
Plagiarism Self Test and Plagiarism Review
Copyright self test and Copyright Review - Citation Wizard or Citation Maker or Citation Machine
