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Search engines are automated programs (sometimes called spiders or bots) that crawl through the Web and index the pages they find, creating a database that they use to match your search terms.

• AllTheWeb AlltheWeb combines one of the largest and freshest indices with the most powerful search features that allow anyone to find anything faster than with any other search engine.
• Ask Ask.com strives to be the most intuitive, relevant & personalized search destination on the web.
• Clusty Clusty queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking and then groups similar results together into clusters. Clusters help you see your search results by topic.
• Dogpile Dogpile was built to give users the best search results available on the Web. This is accomplished by searching all the most popular engines and retrieving the best combined results.
• Google Google contains a subject directory, and image search and much more.
• HotBot From the main search screen, you can also search using Google or Ask Jeeves. Use the advanced search screen for more powerful search feature.  For example, you can limit your search to only web pages that contain video, or only pages that come from a university or college.
• Ixquick Ixquick takes your query to several search tools at once, finds hits, and returns them to a single result list. Because it uses several engines, the searching refinements are limited to the lowest common denominator.

• Kartoo Kartoo is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces.
• Mamma Mamma.com is a "smart" metasearch engine - It's like using multiple search engines, all at the same time.
• Yahoo Yahoo is the web's oldest "directory" and contains web and image search and much more.

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Academic Search Engines

Academic search engines are similar to search engines but the automated programs (bots or spiders) focus on scholarly resources.

• Google Scholar Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
• Windows Academic Live Windows Live Academic lets you search academic journals and content for article titles, author names, article abstracts, and conference proceedings.
• Scirus Scirus is a science-specific search engine. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 250 million science-specific web pages.

 

 

Subject Directories

Subject directories are lists of Web resources arranged into subjects by human beings.

General Directories

• Gavilan Library Subject List A list of links to useful web sites, maintained by Gavilan Librarians.
• Digital Librarian Maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, New York.
• Internet Public Library IPL also features "pathfinder" subject guides.
• Librarians' Internet Index High-quality sites organized by librarians.

 

Academic Directories

• Academic Info An annotated subject directory of online college and research level Internet resources.
• Infomine More than 20,000 scholarly and educational Internet resources, compiled by CSU and UC librarians.

 

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Last updated on 11/16/2006 .
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