WEB SEARCH ENGINES
- AltaVista
- http://www.altavista.com/
- Deja News -
http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/deja_announcement.html
Google has acquired Deja's entire Usenet archive (dating back to
1995) and allows users to search
for
"information contained in more than six months of Usenet newsgroup
postings and message
threads. Once the full
Deja Usenet archive is added, users will be able to search and browse
more
than 500 million archived
messages."
- Dogpile, Multi-Engine
Search Tool - http://www.dogpile.com/
A meta search engine that allows users to search more than one
search engine simultaneously.
- Excite -
http://www.excite.com/
First.gov http://www.firstgov.gov/
Start here when looking for government information. This
is the "official U.S. gateway to all
government information."
- Google- http://www.google.com/
Claims to be the world's largest search engine and is probably the
best search engine at this date.
Google Blog Search  -
http://blogsearch.google.com/
Another beta product from our friends at
Google, this search engine searches for blogs
by subject.
Google Scholar -
http://scholar.google.com/
"Google Scholar enables
you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including
peer-reviewed
papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from
all broad areas of research.
Use Google Scholar to find articles from a
wide variety of academic publishers, professional
societies, preprint repositories and
universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the
web." This does not mean that
everything on Google Scholar is full text so you will have to use
library resources in some cases in
conjunction with your search.
Google Uncle Sam
- http://www.google.com/unclesam
Searches Web pages of the U.S.
government.
- HotBot -
http://www.hotbot.com/
- MetaCrawler -
http://www.metacrawler.com/
Another meta
search engine.
Science.gov-
http://www.science.gov/
Similar to
First.gov for searching for government documents, "Science.gov is a gateway to
authoritative selected science information
provided by U.S. Government agencies, including
research and
development results."
- Scirus-
http://www.scirus.com/
Scirus is
a "comprehensive science-specific search engine available on
the Internet." It does this
by focusing on web sites containing scientific information only. It
also searches for articles but
please be aware that not all of the information is available for free. Some
content requires
payment so, as always, use
Montgomery College's Electronic
Databases first if you are looking
for articles on scientific
topics.
Vivisimo
- http://vivisimo.com/
This search engine offers something the
others don't---clustering technology "that organizes
search results into meaningful
categories" listing results by topic and providing
sub-topics. - WebCrawler Guide -
http://www.webcrawler.com/
Yahoo Search-
http://search.yahoo.com/
In addition to its well-known directory
of web pages by subject, Yahoo Search now offers
a Google-like search engine and is
particularly good at catching pages that Google misses.
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