Scholarly Directories (for Academic Subjects)
Invisible Web Tools (for sites missed by most search engines)

SUBJECT DIRECTORIES (for selected Internet resources)
Yahoo! - Subject directory, click here here for search engine or portal site. Help. Librarian's Internet Index- subject directory organized by librarians. Help.
About.com  - 21 "channels," each managed by a "network of expert 'Guides.' Help.  

SEARCH ENGINES (for extensive Internet resources)

AltaVista - Owned by Yahoo! Best used for Advanced search options and Images, MP3/Audio, Video. Can translate foreign language documents. Search for News. Advanced Search. Help. Exalead - Small search engine with a Refine feature and thumbnail images of web pages. Supports more search features than other search engines, including soundslike: and spellslike: features. Help.
AOL Anywhere - AOL's search engine enhanced by Google, category sites in AOL A-Z. Help. Google - Use quotes for phrases, + to require stop words, -to exclude words, ~ for synonyms.  Search for Images, (news) Groups, News. Directory by Open Directory. Google Scholar for academic searches. Help. 
Ask - Formerly AskJeeves. Accepts questions, phrases or single word searches. Provides Related Searches prompt in results.  Help. Live Search - (MSN Windows Live). Advanced search only after Basic Search. Advanced Search. Help. 
Cuil - newer search engine, with graphic display or results list, drill down feature and ranking based on keywords. FAQs. Yahoo! - Search engine & main site. Use quotes for phrases, all Boolean Operators (in CAPS).Automatic AND. Help.

META SEARCH ENGINES (for multiple search tools at once)

Clusty - clusters results into hierarchical folders. Results from Ask, Live Search, Open Directory, Gigablast and others. Help. Ixquick- Searches Yahoo!, Ask, Live Search, and others. Uses whatever search operators engine searched uses. Eliminates duplicates. Help.
DogPile - Searches Google, Yahoo!, Live Search, Ask, and others. Help. Search22 - not a meta search engine, but a single interface for searching several search engines, meta search engines and other search sites. Help.

The Search Tools Chart provides a quick overview, in chart form, of the major search tools.

Evaluating WWW Information

updated 12/08




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