| Search Engines & Search Tools Links |
A9.com
http://a9.com/
"Searches several sources of information simultaneously and displays results in columns. It currently searches the web (Google), Search Inside the Book® (Amazon.com), Images (Google), Movies (Internet Movie Database), and Reference (definitions, encyclopedic entries and other topics by GuruNet). It also offers a toolbar and some nifty personalizing features. You might want to train students to use it since it makes it so easy for them to search inside books as well as web sites." --Marylaine Block [Also offers site source information from Alexa.com] |
Acronym Finder
http://www.acronymfinder.com/
Acronym Finder This looks like fun for when you need to know what something means. What's particularly clever is that it returns a list of appropriate matches, but allows you to sort on Most common (default), information technology, military/government, science/medicine, organizations, business/finance, slang/chat or alternative searches. Simple, clever and quick. |
All in One MetaSearch
http://all4one.searchallinone.com/
Metasearch engine AllinOne looks promising. It has 8 engines including Yahoo and its two offspring, Altavista and Alltheweb, Hotbot and Netscape presumably with Google content, and MSN and Wisenut - not a pay-per-click on the list. It presents a summary of results by engine immediately. There is a panel of "grouped results" where the topics seem to be determined from frequently used words on the pages. Results show the source search engine and you can select the engines you want to use. In all. |
Answers.com
http://www.answers.com/
Answers.com is a free, ad-supported, reference search service, created to provide you with instant answers on over a million topics. As opposed to standard search engines that serve up a list of links for you to follow, Answers.com displays quick, snapshot answers with concise, reliable information. |
Become -- new search engine for buying guides and reviews
http://www.become.com/
Search engine Become.com ( http://www.become.com ) has launched its official shopping index. Because it seems to be focused on product reviews (as opposed to buying stuff), because it doesn't require registration, and because it's so huge (3+ billion pages) ... --ResearchBuzz |
Best Search Tools Chart from InfoPeople
http://www.infopeople.org/search/chart.html
Charting Search database descriptions and search options for -- Selected Internet Search Engines: Google, Yahoo!, Teoma, Ask Jeeves, Ask Jeeves for Kids Selected Internet Meta-Search Engines: Vivisimo, Dogpile Selected Internet Subject Directories: Librarians' Index to the Internet, Yahoo, INFOMINE, Academic Info © 2005 Infopeople Project, http://infopeople.org/search/chart.html. Last updated January 11, 2005 by Joe Barker (search at infopeople dot org) for the Infopeople Project, supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. |
Better Googling: Things You Didn't Know Google Does
http://www.sreetips.com/google.html
Power tips for getting the most from the Google search engine, from toolbars to using Google as a calculator or to look up phone book entries. Includes tips for journalists on using Google to research stories. From Sree Sreenivasan, "Tech Guru" for New York's WABC-TV. |
Brainboost Answer Engine
http://www.brainboost.com/
An Answers.com company, Brainboost is an answer engine whereas Google is a Search engine. What that means is that Brainboost actually finds answers to your questions posed in plain English as opposed to directing you to pages that simply mention the questions. Brainboost, Using the AnswerRank™ system, intelligently reads hundreds of web pages derived from search results and extracts just the short and concise answer to your question, saving you time.
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Building Research Tools with Google for Dummies, by Harold Davis
http://www.braintique.com/research/
This companion Web site features software from the book, links to online research resources explained in the book, content from each chapter in the book, source code for the applications in the book, and much more. |
Exalead
http://www.exalead.com/search
New search engine discussed on Web4Lib -- features Related Terms, Related Categories, Web site location, and Document types on left. |
Factbites
http://www.factbites.com/index.html
Factbites is the search engine to turn to when you are doing an encyclopedia-type search. For example, if you want information on a country, an animal, a general topic, this is the site for you. To better understand, take a look at their Factbites vs Google section.... |
Fagan Finder URLinfo
http://www.faganfinder.com/urlinfo/
URLinfo is a tool for handling web pages: finding information about it, translating it, finding related pages, etc. To use it, type a URL (web page address) into the box in the top frame. Then choose a tab (such as General or Cache), and click on the name of the specific tool you wish to use. The Translate and Search tabs require a bit more, but should be self-explanatory. Click on the [info] link at the end of any tab for details about it. URLinfo includes 107 tools. [Not updated since 2004? but tools still seem to work.] |
Finding information--search engines
http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm
Phil Bradley- Finding what you need with the best search engines--when to use
what (excellent list, UK-based, created, March 8, 2005; updated 2007) |
Gimpsy - Active Sites for Active People
http://www.gimpsy.com/
Search engine/directory based on verbs (active). |
Google Help Central Cheatsheet
http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html
A quick reference guide to the most popular special operators for Google, including Boolean and adjacency operators, definitions, mathematical calculators, date search, site "info," and more. |
(About) Google Book Search
http://books.google.com/googleprint/about.html
Another fascinating Google project -- Google's mission is to organize the world's information, but much of that information isn't yet online. Google Book Search aims to get it there by putting book content where you can find it most easily --right in your Google search results. |
Google Guide: Making Searching Even Easier
http://books.google.com/googleprint/about.html
Google Guide is an online interactive tutorial and reference for experienced users, novices, and everyone in between. I developed Google Guide because I wanted more information about Google's capabilties, features, and services than I found on Google's website. --Nancy Blachman (co-author of an "Everything you wanted to know ..." book about Google) |
Google Suggest
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en
"As you type, Google will offer suggestions. Use the arrow keys to navigate the results." Could be very helpful to the spelling impaired, or to those who only remember the first word or two of a name or expression. --Marylaine Block |
Google Zeitgeist
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html
Google Zeitgeist: Search patterns, trends, and surprises -- Track "search patterns, trends, and surprises according to Google." Features top popular searches in general, as well as in categories such as celebrities, musicians, seasonal topics, and more. Includes archived weekly and monthly search reports back to 2001 and query information for various countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Brazil, Australia, and Japan. |
Hot Daddy
http://www.hotdaddy.com/
What someone has decided is the Best of Google on one searchable page (by
icon) is a nifty little search page with links to everything that Google
offers (and Yahoo! and other sites as well). Simple but very useful. |
IceRocket Web Search
http://www.icerocket.com/
New search engine features special searches for Blogs, News, Phone Pics, Images, Multimedia, Find a friend. Click a box to search an exact phrase (on basic search screen) -- AND screen thumbnails on search results screen which you can turn on or off. No apparent Help screen. |
iTools
http://www.itools.com/
"Quick access to the best Internet tools"--Search tools, Language tools, Research tools, Financial Tools, Map Tools, Internet Tools, Find People. |
Langenberg -- Search and Get There Faster
http://www.langenberg.com/
Search boxes for Google, AltaVista, MSN, All the Web, Wise Nut, Teoma, Yahoo; and a Link Directory on left for Phone finders, Reference, Geographic Helps, Search, Business, Media, and Products -- all of which open a page of search boxes for popular search sites. |
Pew Internet and American Life Project: Reports on Internet Use
http://www.pewinternet.org/index.asp
The Pew Internet & American Life Project produces reports that explore the impact of the Internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the Internet through collection of data and analysis of real-world developments as they affect the virtual world. |
Picture Surfing Web Sites
http://www.picturesurfing.com/surf/search.htm
The Best Web and Internet Search Engines have been carefully selected and organized for you here. Surf the Web and the Entire Internet the Fun and Easy Way! Picture-Icon Links guide you to easily discover new and interesting places on the Internet. |
Péter's PolySearch Engines
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jacso/extra/poly-page.html
These PolySearch Engines allow you to run simple queries across several open access ready reference databases or publishers' abstract archives in one fell swopp. This is especially convenient for corroborating information in different dictionaries, and encyclopedias, and for comprehensive literature searches. Results are shown simultaneously from the sites in adjacent panes. The original query brings to you each selected target sites (instead of merging their results), so if you want to broaden or narrow the search, you can refine the simple query using truncation symbols, Boolean and proximity operators, field limiters -- whatever is allowed by the native search engine of each site. (Only a few of the planned engines are currently available.) |
Pretrieve -- Free Public Record Search Engine
http://www.pretrieve.com/
Note: Pretrieve is a new database that offers a federated/meta search of many web-accessible and free public record databases that often contain info residing on the Invisible or Deep Web. We're planning for a full review of Pretrieve soon. Today, Pretrieve added access to court records from various jurisdictions. --Gary Price, Resourceshelf |
Soople; easy search in Google
http://soople.com/
Soople is "an interface that 'softens' all the fantastic (advanced) functions Google offers" and is meant for those "not yet familiar with all the functions and required syntaxes." It features topical search tips, a calculator, language translator, U.S phone directory, and a filter for simultaneous use of many of Google's advanced features. Other search functions include definitions, stocks, images, news, movie reviews, and more. "Soople is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Google."--lii.org |
Technorati- What's happening on the Web
http://www.technorati.com/
"Technorati is a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere -- the world of weblogs." Drop a keyword or URL into the search box, browse popular topics, or create up to three free custom notifications. |
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