AllTheWeb Bloglines (Blogs) Business.com dmoz open directory esp@cenet (Patents) Google Scholar Intute RocketNews (News, Blogs) Scirus for Science, Engineering and Patents Scout Report Archives Technorati (Blogs) Vivisimo World of Science (Eric Weisstein) Yahoo Finance, Enter Ticker Symbol(s) Yahoo directory

Contents

• Readme's before searching
• Directories
• Search engines (also multi engine searches, web search bots, anonymous surfing)
• Lib catalogs, finding email, telephone directories, newsgroups, isp's, ftp, RSS, Social Bookmarking, weblogs and Podcasts
• Current awareness
• Guides and organizations

For comments or suggestions please contact Mark Mounts
Last modified on Wednesday, March 19, 2008.

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Readme's before Searching

Evaluation

• Critical Evaluation of Resources
• Testing the Surf: Criteria for Evaluating Internet Information Resources
• WWWVL's Evaluation of information sources

Tutorials

• Bare Bones 101
  (Univ South Carolina)
• Beyond the Basics: Searching Tips and Techniques
  (Dana Biomedical Library)
• Finding Information on the Internet
  (UC Berkeley)
• Four NETS for Better Searching
• Guide to Effective Searching of the Internet
• net.Tutor (Ohio State Univ)
• Pandia Goalgetter Internet Search Tutorial
• Virtual Training Suite (Intute)

Charts

• Comparison of Search Engine Capabilities (Westera)
• Search Engine Features (Notess)
• Search Tools Chart (InfoPeople)

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WWW Directories

• Beaucoup!
• Google Directory
• InfoGrid
• InfoMine
• Internet Library for Librarians
• Librarians' Index
• Lycos
• dmoz (open directory project)
• PINAKES: Subject Launchpad
• Scout Report Archives
• Where to do Research
• Yahoo

Classified Arrangements

• BUBL Link (DDC)
• WEBrary (DDC)

Spacial Arrangements

• UCL CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SPATIAL ANALYSIS

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WWW Search Engines

• A9
• Accoona
• AllTheWeb Search
• Alta Vista
• Answers.com
• Ask.com
• BoardReader (Search Bulletin Boards with Vivisimo's Clustering Engine)
• Clustered Hits
• Clusty
• Deep Web
• Exalead
• FindForward
• FyberSearch
• Gigablast
• Go.com
• Go Ordinate (uses Geographical Information such as a placename or co-ordinate to search the internet)
• Google (FAQ, Advanced Operators, Hacks)
• HotBot
• HQ SiteSource (Marc format)
• IceRocket
• igrep
• Jux2
• kartoo (graphical)
• Kasamba (Experts answer questions in real-time, live.)
• Live.com
• LLEK Bookmarks
• Lycos
• MagPortal.com
• MSN Search
• OPML Search
• Pagebull
• Re: QUEST dot Net
• Rollyo (Create personal search engines)
• Sandbox (MSN)
• Scirus (science search)
• Scitopia
• ScoopGO (search through feeds you choose)
• Search Adobe PDF Online
• SearchEdu.com
• Search Systems (Free Searchable Public Record Databases)
• SmartEngine
• Soople
• Start: natural language question answering system
• Subject-specific search engines
• Swoogle (search the Semantic Web)
• TagCloud (automated Folksonomy tool)
• thagoo (tagged search)
• Tile.net
• VisioBrand (branding and trademark search)
• Vivisimo (automatically organizes pages from the results into categories)
• wotbox
• ZapMeta

Search Multiple Engines

• Ask Jeeves (Interactive)
• CompletePlanet
• Dogpile
• ixquick
• Mamma
• Metacrawler
• METAEUREKA (fast/simple interface)
• Query Server
• Search-22
• Search.com (CNET)
• SearchEngine Colossus (by country)

Multimedia Search Engines

• BlinkxTV
• FAST Multimedia Search
• flickr
• GoGraph.com
• Google Image Search
• CNN
• Ixquick
• picsearch (search for pictures)
• Yotophoto
• Youtube

Map Search Engines

• Google Maps
• Yahoo Maps

Web Search Bots

• Copernic
• Tracerlock
• Web Ferret

Anonymous Web Surfing

• Anonymizer.com
• Anonymization.Net
• Anonymouse.org
• The Cloak
• EPIC Online Guide to Practical Privacy Tools
• Surf the Web With Operator Pat
• W3Privacy.com

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Lib cats, finding email, newsgroups, isp's, ftp, RSS, social bookmarking and weblogs

• LibDex | Libweb | lib-web-cats
• The List of ISP's
• Telephone Directories on the Web | Fone Finder | Phone Validator | World Telephone Numbering Guide
• Google Usenet Newsgroups | Yahoo Groups
• CataList (catalog of listservs) | Topica Discussions and Lists
• FTPplanet
• FeedPlex | Page2RSS
• Social Bookmarking: CiteULike | Connotea | del.icio.us | furl | RawSugar | simpy | Spurl | unalog
• Blogdex (MIT) | Blogger | Bloglines | Blogniscient | BlogPulse | Eatonweb portal | Google Blog Search | Technorati
• Podcasts: Fresh Podcasts | Podcast Empire | PodSpider

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Current Awareness

• AmphetaDesk
• Current Cites
• Google Alert
• internet.com
• Internet Resources Newsletter
• Internet Scout
• Internet Scout Weblog
• SLA Resources
• News Is Free
• Researchbuzz
• RocketNews
• Topix

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Guides & Organizations

• AbilityHub
• AllSearchEngines.com
• December Communications
• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• FPLC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MALL
• Free Pint
• IMS Project (Internet architecture for learning)
• InfoPro Alliance
• Intellectual Property and Technology Forum
• Internet Archive
• Internet Search Engines Database
• Internet Society
• InterNIC Services
• LibraryHQ.com
• Notess.com
• Nutch (effort to implement an open-source web search engine)
• Oasis: Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
• O'Reilly Hacks
• Portal Webliography
• Search Engine Guide (news about industry)
• Search Engine Watch
• Search Engines Worldwide
• Searchenginez
• Search Tools
• techrepublic.com
• Usable Web
• useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website
• Web Robots
• Web Standards Project
• W3C: World Wide Web Consortium