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Glossary (Familiarity with the following vocabulary may facilitate your web search.)

directory: a subject index - an attempt to catalog and organize the web

meta search engine: uses a single interface to provide simultaneous searching of the most popular search engines

search engine: uses software programs known as robots, spiders or crawlers to search the web and build a database of sites

specialized search sites : these are search engines or portals that only search very specific kinds of information (e.g Computer Science or Law)

webliography: site with lots of links by subject - organized by humans

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Advanced Searching Techniques Tips and Tricks (About.com)

Bare Bones 101: A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web (University of South Carolina)

Evaluating Web Resources (Widener University)

Evaluating Internet Resources (University at Albany)

Finding Information on the Internet: A TUTORIAL (University of California, Berkeley)

Guide to Effective Searching of the Internet (Visual Metrics Corp)

A Student's Guide to Research with the WWW (St. Louis University)

Dudley Knox Library Internet Guides

Internet Update

Searching the Web More Efficiently

Searching the Deep Web

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The following represent some of the available search sites organized by category. Many others are available. Suggestions for additions are welcome.

Search Engines & Search Tools

Major Search Engines

Broken into various categories, this site provides descriptions and links to the major search engines

All The Web (FAST Search)

Alta Vista

Search basics

FAST Search (All The Web)

Go.com

Google

Help

HotBot

Search tips

Lycos

Help

Search Engine Colossus

International directory of search engines featuring links to over 1400 search engines from 195 countries and 48 territories around the world

Soople

An interface to Google's search engine that makes using its advanced search features easier.

TEOMA

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Meta Search Engines

Metacrawlers

Broken into various categories, this site provides descriptions and links to the major metacrawlers or engines

Ask Jeeves!

New user tour

BigHub

Dogpile

Help

Excite

Internet Sleuth

Search techniques

Ixquick

Power searching

Mamma.com

Power search

Metacrawler

ProFusion

Search tips

QuickBrowse

Search Enginez

Tools to find people, translations, books and more

Vivísimo

Searches multiple search engines and organizes the results into meaningful groups.

Web Crawler

Help

ZapMeta

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Specialized Search Sites

Government & Military

Fasttrack

Search over 3,000 deeply indexed defence related sites

FirstGov

One-stop access to all online U.S. Federal Government resources

Google UncleSam

Searches only government sites

GovEngine.com

Directory of official federal, state, and local government information sites.

Military Domains Search Engine

Search Department of Defense Web Sites

Search military web sites (.mil domains). This includes many defense agencies, unified commands, the military services - Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps - and other elements of the defense and military establishments.

SearchMil.com

Over 1 million military pages indexed

SearchGov.com

Special Forces Search Engine
Multimedia
Alltheweb

Pictures
Video
Audio

Alta Vista Audio Search

Alta Vista Image Search

Alta Vista Video Search

FindSounds

Finding Images on the Web (Boston University)

Google Image Search

Image Search Info
Searches more than 150 million images

Multimedia Search (Lycos)

Multimedia Search Engines

The services listed will help find pictures, images, sounds, MP3 files and imedia objects available on the web

picsearch

Picsearch is a search engine for pictures and images.

Search Adobe PDF Online

Search through more than a million summaries of AdobeŽ Portable Document Format (PDF) files on the Web.

Singingfish

Find audio and video

SpeechBot
Audio search using speech recognition
News

Alltheweb News

Google News

Google News presents information culled from approximately 4,000 news sources worldwide and automatically arranged to present the most relevant news first.

News Search Engines

These search sites provide a better way to search for the latest news stories from hundreds of sources on the web

Pandia Newsfinder

Provides headlines, summaries and links to articles from some of the best news sites on the Internet, including BBC, CNN, MSNBC, Yahoo, The Washington Post, NewsHub and Moreover.

RocketNews

Search for current news.

Yahoo News
Research

AERADE

Portal to aerospace and defense resources on the Internet

Business.com

Search engine and directory for business information.

CiteSeer Scientific Literature Digital Library

CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library that provides algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in other digital libraries. CiteSeer indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web.

Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library

FindLaw

Topical organization of links to internet legal resources
Help

Political Information.com

Searches the political web -- think tanks, public policy, lobby groups and politician web sites

Regional Search Engines

Organized by world region, these are search engines and directories that are devoted to various countries and regions of the world.

Science.gov

Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.

SciTechResources.gov

Search thousands of web sites that will provide valuable links to government expertise, services, laboratories, information centers, and other important resources.

Search4science

Made by scientists for scientists

Scirus

Internet search tool developed specifically for finding scientific information.

STINET MultiSearch

A portal to the Deep-Web for Scientific & Technical Information.

The Virtual Chase : Legal Research on the Internet (Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP)
Other

Beaucoup.com

Organizes search sites by subject areas

Google Groups

Help
Searches Usenet news groups

Google's University Search

Enables you to narrow your search to a specific school website.

International Search Engines

iTools

SearchEdu.com

Over 20 million university and education pages indexed

SearchEngines.com

SearcheBooks.com

Worldwide Composites Search Engine
Help

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The Invisible Web
CompletePlanet

Locate search engines and databases on the web

Direct Search

Direct Search is a growing compilation of links to the search interfaces of resources that contain data not easily or entirely searchable/accessible from general search tools like Alta Vista, Google, and Hotbot.

FedStats

FedStats provides access to official statistical information available to the public from the Federal Government. Use FedStats to track economic and population trends, education, health care costs, aviation safety, foreign trade, energy use, farm production, and more. Access official statistics collected and published by more than 100 Federal agencies without having to know in advance which agency produces them. All of the statistical information available through FedStats is maintained and updated solely by Federal agencies on their own web servers.

IncyWincy: The Invisible Web Search Engine

The Invisible Web Directory

Directory of resources not visible to general-purpose search engines

Invisible Web: What it is, Why it exists, How to find it, and Its inherent ambiguity (U.C. Berkeley)

Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed (Rider University)

Secrets From the Deep: Mining Government Information From the Invisible Web
Continuing Education class presented by Greta E. Marlatt at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, June 8, 2002

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Subject Directories & Webliographies
Air War College Gateway to Internet Resources

Argus Clearinghouse

Digital Librarian

A librarian's choice of the best of the Web.

Infomine

Scholarly Internet Resource Collections

Internet Public Library

Librarian's Index to the Internet

Look Smart

Lycos' Top 5%

Maritime History on the Internet

A guide to doing maritime history research online.

Science.gov

Science.gov provides a gateway to information resources at the U.S. government science agencies. It contains selected authoritative science Web sites and databases of technical reports, journal articles, conference proceedings, and other published materials.

Scout Report

The Internet Scout Project, funded through the National Science Foundation, is designed to guide U.S. higher education to quality electronic resources. A compendium of over 10,000 full-text searchable Scout Report summaries, with 3700 entries listed by 37 LC-indexed subjects.

Search.com

Help

Virtual Information Center

UCB & Internet Resources by Academic Discipline

WWW Virtual Library

Yahoo!
Help

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