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General Articles
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General Articles
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Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need
...this single page provides students and you with the information needed to make educated decisions about the places to search for specific types of data
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Finding
It Online: Web Search Strategies
...a well-done tutorial dealing with search strategies
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Four Nets for Better Searching
...an easy-to-understand exercise to increase your
searching expertise
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KidsClick!: Worlds
of Web Searching
...a well-done, interactive Web searching tutorial
appropriate for students in grades 5-8
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Learning
More About Search Engines & Subject Directories
...a great series of questions and answers that explain
the process of searching the Net
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NoodleQuest
...answer a few questions and this reputable site will provide you with the best search tools and research strategy to use to find your information
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Search Engine
Showdown
...statistics, tips, and resources for comparing and
learning about search engines and directories
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Search Engine
Watch
...a useful site with search engine tips, tutorials,
and up-to-date information
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SearchQuest:
A WebQuest about Search Tools
...a teacher guide and cooperative learning lesson
plan for teaching search strategies
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Sink
or Swim : Internet Search Tools & Techniques
...a description of how to go about doing
a search on the Net
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Spider's
Apprentice
...a great tutorial on the use of the different search
engines and techniques for successful searching
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Search Engines
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AllTheWeb.com
...a fast, huge, search engine which works well for
simple searches
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AltaVista
...an extremely fast search engine for Web pages and
newsgroups
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Ask.com
...a natural language query search engine
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Ditto.com
...a visual search engine to help you find that
perfect picture
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Exalead: Advanced Search
...an interesting search engine that provides advanced search strategies in a very usable format and includes other useful features
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FindSounds
...a specific search engine that scours the Web for sound effects and musical instrument samples
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Google
...the most comprehensive search engine on the Internet
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Google Groups Newsgroup
Search
...a fast and easy way to search the archives of newsgroups for people
and information
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Google Mobile/Handheld/Text
...a text-based version of Google for use on your computer, smartphone, or handheld computer
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Google Services
...links to and descriptions of all of the Google tools
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Mooter
...one of the new breed of visual, clustering search engines with a clean interface
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Soople
...a well-organized and easy-to-use front end to the advanced Google search tools
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Technorati
...a search engine for material located in blogs
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Yahoo's Search Information
...many of the search engines collected in one place
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Yahoo's
Search Engine
...a engine that allows you to search Yahoo's directory
site and/or the Web; has advanced searching options
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Metasearch Engines
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Beaucoup
...a metasearch engine which also searches some invisible Web sites
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Dogpile
...a very fast and efficient meta-search engine that
queries search engines, directories, Usenet news and FTP
sites
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FINDSPOT
..."a gateway to Internet search tools that combines
access to these tools with example-based help"; primarily
search engines, but includes some directories
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ixQuick Metasearch
...a fast, comprehensive metasearch engine with relevancy rankings in the results
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KartOO
...a concept-based metasearch engine which provides results of the relationships between hits in a graphical manner
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Mamma
...a metasearch engine that bills itself as "the
mother of all search engines"
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Metacrawler
...search many engines all at once
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search.com
...a site that provides access to search tools arranged by type of information needed
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WebCrawler
... a meta-search search through thousands of sites
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Zuula Search
...a speedy meta-search engine that searches the Web, images, news, blogs, and jobs
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Invisible Web
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CompletePlanet
...search more than 100,000 searchable databases and specialty search engines
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FindArticles.com
...search the archives of more than 300 periodicals, back to 1998, for full-text articles of interest
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Infomine
...a searchable directory including databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, listservs, online library card catalogs, articles and directories of researchers
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Invisible Web Directories and Resources
...a well-collected list of invisible Web (sites that are not searched by the search engines) resources
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Invisible Web Tutorial
...a well-done tutorial which explains what the invisible Web is, how to find it, and talks about its ambiguity
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WebLens: The Invisible Web
...an overview and links to sites which explain this "hidden" part of the Web and appropriate search tools to access it
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