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Use any of these general and specialist search engines for searching the
Internet
(scroll down for full list):
| General |
Description |
| AltaVista |
AltaVista is consistently
one of the largest search engines on
the web, in terms of pages indexed.
Its comprehensive coverage and wide
range of power searching commands makes
it a particular favorite among researchers.
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| Ask
Jeeves |
Ask Jeeves is a
human-powered search service that aims
to direct you to the exact page that
answers your question. If it fails
to find a match within its own database,
then it will provide matching web pages
from various search engines.
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| Excite |
Excite is one of
the more popular search services on
the web. It offers a fairly large index
and integrates non-web material such
as company information and sports scores
into its results, when appropriate.
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| Infoseek/Go |
Go is a portal site
produced by Infoseek and Disney. It
offers portal features such as personalization
and free e-mail, plus the search capabilities
of the former Infoseek search service,
which has now been folded into Go.
Searchers will find that Go consistently
provides quality results in response
to many general and broad searches,
thanks to its ESP search algorithm.
It also has an impressive human-compiled
directory of web sites.
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| Lycos |
Lycos started out
as a search engine, depending on listings
that came from spidering the web. In
April 1999, it shifted to a directory
model similar to Yahoo. Its main listings
come from the Open Directory project,
and then secondary results come from
the FAST Search engine.
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| Yahoo! |
Yahoo is the web's
most popular search service and has
a well-deserved reputation for helping
people find information easily. The
secret to Yahoo's success is human
beings. It is the largest human-compiled
guide to the web, employing about 150
editors in an effort to categorize
the web. Yahoo has over 1 million sites
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| Science |
Description |
| Biolinks |
A search engine
for scientists, with links to journals,
organizations, companies and more.
It spiders the web and has human-categorized
results. |
| Specialist |
Description |
| Artcyclopedia |
An index of hundreds
of museum sites and image archives.
Visitors can search for where the works
of over 5,500 different artists can
be viewed online.
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| Book
Search Engine |
Search for websites
related to books
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| CI
Resource Index |
Lists sites for
finding competitive intelligence (CI)
resources on the Web
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| Searchgate |
Searchable educational
resource for study information, courses,
recreation, jobs and careers. Especially
aimed at the United Kingdom, but not
exclusively UK in content.
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| One
World |
Portal site with
search engine focused on human rights,
environment and sustainable development.
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| Museum
Stuff |
Guide to museum
web sites and museum related info around
the world. |
| Other
Searching |
Description |
| Webhelp |
Enter a question,
and within a few minutes, a human being
will respond with an answer via this
web site.
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| Information
Please |
Information Please
almanacs are favorites among researchers
who need trustworthy facts. This site
allows searching across Information
Please's various almanacs, its encyclopedia
and its dictionary.
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