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| Search Engine Watch | a very complete site for search engine information, includes news, tips, and other helpful information. |
| The Good, The Bad & The Ugly | Why it's a good idea to evaluate Web sources by Susan Beck, head of Reference & Research Services at New Mexico State University Library |
| Evaluating Web Sites | The reference librarian at Lake Forest College tells how to evaluate Web sites and gives some examples of good and bad sites |
| Evaluating Web Pages | Links, LOTS of links, to sites that tell how to evaluate and to activities and pages to evaluate from the Springfield Township High School's Virtual Library |
| Selection Criteria | how to tell if you're looking at a good Web site from the American Library Association |
| Subject Directories offer a collection of links to Internet resources submitted by site creators or evaluators and organized into subject categories. Most directories offer a search engine mechanism to query the service so we have listed some as both directories and search engines. | |
| Academic Info | an easy to use subject directory covering each academic discipline also has career opportunities, a Student Center with free information on colleges and student loan applications, scholarship opportunities, tutorials on searching the Internet, and quick information aids such as online maps, dictionaries, and encyclopedias |
| Argus Clearinghouse | a collection of Internet resources on specific topics recommended by specialists. There is strong coverage in academic subject areas. Search engine has unusual syntax, so reading the Search Tips is a must |
| Awesome Library | 26,000 carefully reviewed and highly rated resources |
| B J Pinchbeck's Homework Helper | Beege, a 13 year-old, and his dad have been collecting Web sites since April 1996. Now there are more than 625 terrific links to educational sites sorted by subject |
| BUBL Link | a subject directory of carefully selected and annotated resources from the University of Strathclyde Library in Glasgow, Scotland |
| Digital Librarian | a librarian's choice of the best of the Web, arranged by subject, Digital Librarian is maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson |
| Infomine | a large subject directory of scholarly Internet resources collectively maintained by libraries of the University of California offering many search and retrieval options |
| Internet Public Library | a large, selective subject directory from the University of Michigan |
| KidsClick! | a subject directory "created by a bunch of librarians" and managed by the Ramapo Catskill Library System |
| Librarians' Index to the Internet | a well-organized, selective, and continually updated subject directory maintained by a large number of indexers in California - "the thinking person's Yahoo" |
| LibrarySpot | a free virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information |
| LookSmart | a nifty treelike interface helps narrow a search making this one of the easiest directories to use, helpful descriptions of each site it does scan, adds search engine features to its directory by providing built-in access to AltaVista. |
| MeL Internet Collection | over 30,000 link to Internet resources selected by librarians who are experts in their fields. Find MeL Pathfinders (already prepared guides to topics of interest) here also. |
| Snap | a commercial subject directory of briefly annotated and recommended sites, with fairly good coverage of academic areas; search feature returns the most popular sites first |
| The WWW Virtual Library | the first subject directory on the Web, with a number of comprehensive, well-annotated subject collections maintained by experts around the world |
| Yahoo | Largest subject database on the World Wide Web with broad but unevaluated subject coverage. It does not evaluate for quality or accuracy and misses some high quality sites. Searches only the title and the short descriptive blurb about the site. |
| Yahooligans | Yahoo for younger students. |
| Search Engines are searchable database of Internet files collected by a computer program (called a wanderer, crawler, robot, worm, spider). Indexing is created from the collected files, e.g., title, full text, size, URL, etc. There is no selection criteria for the collection of files. | |
| Alta Vista | a search engine that offers both a Simple and a Power Search with numerous searchable fields including language. It also offers spell checking, and answers questions stated in plain English. But: beware of AltaVista's questionable relevancy ranking. |
| Ask Jeeves | a search engine that lets you ask a question in plain English and view a list of categorized results offered as relevant to your question - no searching rules to learn! |
| Britannica.com | although small, Britannica searches and brings back quality Web sites, magazine articles, related books, and articles from the Encyclopedia Britannica;gives full descriptions and star ratings |
| Dogpile | a metasearch service that integrates several medium and large Web search and index guides into a single service. It also provides a single launching point for stock quotes, usenet articles, weather forecasts, yellow pages, and more. |
| Excite | a search engine known for the currency of its database and its use of concept searching for gathering results. Its feature to "Search for more documents like this one" allows you to locate files related to any of your search results. |
| returns important, relevant hits quickly (pages are cached), with terms matched in close proximity and bolded in the results. Decides importance and value based on pages that link to that page. | |
| Hotbot | a good choice for media, geographic, and date searching. It offers a convenient user fill-in template that easily handles complex searches. |
| Infoseek (Go) | one of the most accurate search engines. Offers unusually good relevancy ranking, sorting of results by date, and recommended and/or reviewed Web sites for certain topics. Retrieves results quickly. Database is relatively small |
| Ixquick | a metasearch service that searches 12 search engines simultaneously and supports a dozen languages and has good search help |
| Lycos | one of the smaller search engine databases on the Internet with 30 million Web pages indexed. Power Search allows you to control the factors of relevancy ranking. |
| Metacrawler | a meta search engine that processes results fast, removes duplicates, and presents results in relevancy ranked order. Simultaneously searches several major search engines and subject directories |
| Northern Light | a search engine that searches
the full text of Web pages and view results by selecting folders which group files into subject, type, source, language, etc. A very large database of 150 million files. Offers Billboard Music Search to search articles from Billboard, music sites on the Web, press releases, music reviews, and job listings |
| Search.com | a metasearch engine that uses more than 700 other engines to do a search. You can narrow by subject before searching. |
| Webcrawler | |
| Yahoo | Largest subject database on the World Wide Web with broad but unevaluated subject coverage. It does not evaluate for quality or accuracy and misses some high quality sites. Searches only the title and the short descriptive blurb about the site. |
| Yahooligans | Yahoo for younger students. |
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This page created by Pat Paveglio and last updated 01/25/06