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A LIBRARIAN'S CHOICE OF INTERNET SEARCH TOOLS Includes: Search Engines, A Metasearch Tool, An Invisible Web Directory, And Some Quality Evaluative Search Tools. Includes Brief Usage Guidelines.
Check The "Subject Guides" Web Pages First For Some Quality Resources.
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INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES
A search engine uses a computer "robot" to search the entire Internet frequently.
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Click Here To Access GOOGLE: The World's Largest Search Engine
If you desire to make a more specific search, you may click on any of the following features to help you to find exactly what you're looking for: Book Search, Topical Search, Scholarly Search, Groups, Froogle Shopping, Local Search, Images, News Headlines, Translation and Language Tools, Street Maps.
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Click Here To Access GROKKER: Broad Exploration, Unexpected Discovery, Deep Understanding
A visual search engine that maps the Internet for you based on your query. You search is done fast and dynamically. Your results are generated in a Grok [results map] that adds power to any search and eliminates the disorganized results lists that make Internet searching frustrating. Searches Yahoo!, Wikipedia, and Amazon Books.
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EVALUATIVE INTERNET SEARCH TOOLS
Use these tools especially for finding quality resources on the Internet that have academic value.
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Click Here To Access INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
A virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information. Since the database was developed by the University of California at Riverside, fee-based resources are available only to that location's faculty & students.
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Click Here To Access LIBRARIAN'S INDEX TO THE INTERNET
With a "Focus Is On High-Quality Resources", LII emphasizes several key criteria for inclusion in its database: "Availability" - no fee-based or commercial sale sites, "Credibility" - current, accurate information presented by a qualified author, "Authorship" - Competently written with few if any grammatical or spelling errors, "External Links" - links lead to appropriate content, and "Legality" - author is legally entitled to present the content within copyright and fair use guidelines. Other criteria include: Authority, Scope and Audience, Content, Design, Function, and Shelf Life.
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A METASEARCH TOOL
Use a metasearch index tool to identify keywords. This tool is, however, inadequate for a complete search of the Internet due to limited retrieval.
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Click Here To Access CLUSTY: Award-Winning Clustering Technology
Clusty groups results into topics, or "clustering," for better search and discovery. Clusty queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking. This "metasearch" approach helps raise the best results to the top and push search engine spam to the bottom. But what really makes Clusty unique is what happens after you search. Instead of delivering millions of search results in one long list, our search engine groups similar results together into clusters. Clusters help you see your search results by topic so you can hone in on exactly what you’re looking for or discover unexpected relationships between items. When was the last time you went to the third or fourth page of the search results? Rather than scrolling through page after page, the clusters help you find results you may have missed or that were buried deep in the ranked list.
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AN INVISIBLE WEB SEARCH TOOL
An invisible Web database offers links to very focused areas. You may have better results starting your quest with the more general search and meta-search engines before investigating the Invisible Web Database resources.
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Click Here To Access COMPLETE PLANET: THE DEEP WEB DIRECTORY
A comprehensive listing of dynamic searchable databases. Find databases with highly relevant documents that cannot be crawled or indexed by surface web search engines. Discover over 70,000+ searchable databases and specialty search engines.
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Click Here To Access Other Internet Search Tools
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