The Cyber Community @ Your Library

Suzanne Braun-McGee
Internet Training Specialist
suzanne@incolsa.net
©2007 INCOLSA
 

Search Resources

General Search Engines

• AlltheWeb - www.alltheweb.com
• AltaVista - www.altavista.com
• Ask (formerly Ask Jeeves) - www.ask.com
• Exalead - www.exalead.com/search
• Excite - www.excite.com
• Gigablast - www.gigablast.com/
• Google - www.google.com
• Lycos - www.lycos.com
• Snap - www.snap.com
• Windows Live Search (formerly MSN Search) - http://www.live.com/?mkt=en-US
• Yahoo! Search - http://search.yahoo.com/

Metasearch Engines

• Beaucoup! - www.beaucoup.com
• Clusty - http://clusty.com
• Dogpile - www.dogpile.com
• Hotbot - http://www.hotbot.com/Default.asp
• Ithaki - http://ithaki.net/
• Ixquick - www.ixquick.com
• Kartoo - www.kartoo.com
• Mamma, "the Mother of All Search Engines" - www.mamma.com
• Metacrawler - www.go2net.com/search.html
• Proteus - www.thrall.org/proteus.html
• Search.com - www.search.com
• Search Engine Colossus - www.searchenginecolossus.com
• 7MetaSearch.com - http://7metasearch.com
• WebCrawler - www.webcrawler.com

Answer-based Search Engines

• Answerbag - www.answerbag.com
• Answers - www.answers.com
• Brainboost - www.brainboost.com
• Cha Cha - www.chacha.com
• Google Answers - http://answers.google.com/answers/
• Windows Live QnA - http://qna.live.com/
• Yahoo! Answers - http://answers.yahoo.com/

Portals

• About.com - http://home.about.com/index.htm
• AOL - www.discover.aol.com
• Excite - www.excite.com
• First Gov.gov - www.firstgov.gov
• IN.gov - www.in.gov
• Microsoft's MSN.com - www.msn.com
• Netscape - www.netscape.com
• Yahoo! - www.yahoo.com

Vortals

• Trade Worlds - http://www.tradeworlds.com/
• Yahoo!'s Small Business Marketplace - http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources
• Voroo Vortal Directory - http://www.voroo.com/

Subject Directories

• About.com - http://home.about.com/index.htm
• Best of the Web - www.botw.org
• Bubl Link - http://bubl.ac.uk/
• Cyberstacks - www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/
• Gimpsy - www.gimpsy.com
• Google - www.google.com/dirhp
• Infomine - http://infomine.ucr.edu/
• Internet Public Library - www.ipl.org/
• Joe Ant - www.joeant.com
• Librarian's Internet Index - http://lii.org
• Open Directory Project - www.dmoz.org
• Pinakes - www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html
• SearchTurtle.com - www.searchturtle.com
• Skaffe.com - www.skaffe.com
• Yahoo! Directory - dir.yahoo.com

Fee Based Tools

• Dialog - www.dialog.com
• Factiva - www.factiva.com
• Lexis-Nexis - www.lexis.com and www.nexis.com/research
• Northern Light's Special Collections - www.northernlights.com

Lists of Search Engines and Directories

• All-in-one List of Search Engines and Directories - www.pandia.com/powersearch/index.html
• AllSearchEngines.com - www.allsearchengines.com
• Beaucoup - www.beaucoup.com
• Search Engine Colossus - www.searchenginecolossus.com
• DMOZ (search engines) - http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Searching/Search_Engines/
• DMOZ (directories) - http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Searching/Directories/
• Search Engines Worldwide - http://home.inter.net/takakuwa/search/search.html
• Yahoo - http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Searching_the_Web

Invisible Web/Deep Web

• CompletePlanet - http://aip.completeplanet.com/
• Turbo 10 - http://turbo10.com

Charts

• Choose the Best Search for your Information Need - http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html
• Internet Subject Directories - http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/dir/
• Recommended Search Engines - Table of Features - http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/SearchEngines.html
• Search Engine Features Chart - http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/features/
• Search Engines by Search Features - http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/features/byfeature.shtml

Glossaries/Dictionaries

• Glossary of Internet and Web Jargon - www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Glossary.html
• Search Engine Dictionary - www.searchenginedictionary.com
• Webopedia - www.webopedia.com

Tutorials

• Bare Bones 101 - http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml
• Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial - www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
• Search Engine Tutorial - www.pandia.com/goalgetter/index.html
• Web Search Strategies - www.learnwebskills.com/search/main.html

Reference Resources

Meta Tools

Academic Info - http://www.academicinfo.net/
Bartleby - http://www.bartleby.com
DeskRef 500 - http://www.rcls.org/deskref/
Digital Librarian - http://www.digital-librarian.com
Galaxy - http://www.galaxy.com/galaxy/Reference.html
Internet Library for Librarians - http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever
Internet Public Library - http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR/
Librarian's Index to the Internet - http://www.lii.org
LibrarySpot - http://www.libraryspot.com
Looksmart's Find Article - http://www.findarticles.com
Price's List of Lists - http://www.specialissues.com/lol/
Project Gutenberg - www.promo.net/pg/
Refdesk.com - http://www.refdesk.com
Virtual Reference Shelf (LOC) - http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/virtualref.html
 

Subject Areas

American Presidential Election - http://www.search.eb.com/elections
Artcyclopedia - http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
AskART.com - http://askart.com/
Best Free Reference Web Sites - http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/rusasections/mars/marspubs/marsbestref2006.cfm
Biography - http://www.biography.com
BRASS Best of the Business Web Sites - http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/rusasections/brass/brassprotools/bestofthebestbus/bestbestbusiness.htm
Britannica.com - http://www.britannica.com
C-SPAN Congressional Directory - http://capwiz.com/c-span/dbq/officials/directory/directory.dbq?command=congdir
Educator's Reference Desk - http://www.eduref.org/
Encarta - http://encarta.msn.com/
EPS Search Your Community by ZIP Code - http://www.epa.gov/epahome/commsearch.htm
Ethnologue - http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp
FindArticles.com - http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml
GeoHive Global Statistics - http://www.geohive.com/
Indiana Ready Reference FAQ - http://www.wpl.lib.in.us/Sandi
Infomine - http://infomine.ucr.edu
Infonation - http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation3/basic.asp
Infoplease - http://www.infoplease.com/
MagPortal.com - http://magportal.com/
Maporama - http://www.maporama.cohttp://www.martindale.com/Home.aspxm/share/
Martindale.com Lawyer Locator - http://www.martindale.com/Home.aspx
NAT Tools for Good Health - http://nat.crgq.com/
Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates - http://stats.bls.gov/oes/oes_data.htm
Operabase - http://www.operabase.com/
Operissimo - http://www.operissimo.com
RxList - http://www.rxlist.com/
Salary Expert - http://www.salaryexpert.com/
Science Fair Project Database - http://www.ascpl.lib.oh.us/scifair/sftp.htm
Stateline.org - http://www.stateline.org/live/
Time and Date.com - http://www.timeanddate.com
Who2 - Find Famous People Fast - http://who2.com/
Yahoo! Finance - http://finance.yahoo.com/


College and University Libraries

Indiana University Bloomington Libraries - http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/internet/
Michigan State University - http://www.lib.msu.edu/sowards/home/home2.htm
MIT Libraries - http://libraries.mit.edu/research/virtualref.html
Otterbein College - http://library.otterbein.edu/libpages/subject/sgref.htm
University of Texas at Austin - http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Reference.html
 

Public Libraries

Chicago Public Library - http://www.chipublib.org/008subject/005genref/readyref.html
Corpus Christi Public Libraries - http://www.library.ci.corpus-christi.tx.us/readyref.htm
Highland Park Public Library - http://www.hplibrary.org/www/genref.html
Lakewood Public Library - http://www.lkwdpl.org/readyref/
Wilton Library - http://web.archive.org/web/20050205015235/http://www.wiltonlibrary.org/ref.asp
 

Evaluating Internet Resources

Evaluation Criteria - http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html
Evaluating Quality on the Net - http://www.hopetillman.com/findqual.html
Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages - http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/webcrit.html