A search engine is a web site used to locate
information on the Internet. Some search engines list categories that can be browsed. Others allow keyword searches to locate specific information.
| General
Search Engines: for broad searches on a wide range of topics |
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Google |
The world's largest and most popular
keyword search engine |
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Yahoo
|
A leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide |
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Excite
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Among the Internet's most personalized portals featuring a customizable start page |
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Ask.com
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Uses
hit frequency information to highlight relevancy
ratings |
| Metasearch
Engines: for looking across multiple databases |
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Dogpile |
Searches all the most popular keyword search engines and retrieves the best combined results |
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Queryserver |
Searches not only keyword search engines but also news, health and government websites |
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Clusty |
Queries several top search engines, combines the results, generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking
and clusters similar listings |
| Kartoo |
Shows search results visually with sites interconnected by keywords |
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Ixquick |
Ranks findings by relevance |
| Specialty
Search Engines: for deep searches on particular topics |
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Business.com |
Searches over 65,000 categories of business information |
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FindArticles |
Vast
archive of published magazine articles on a wide range of
topics |
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LibrarySpot |
Virtual library resource center where featured sites are selected and reviewed by an editorial team for their ewxceptional quality, content and utility |
| Librarians' Index to the Internet |
A searchable, annotated directory of more than 14,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians |
| Infomine |
A virtual library of Internet resources relevant to those at the university level |
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Scirus
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Searches over 300 million science-specific Web pages |
