Search the net
Search engines
- AltaVista - offers detailed searches through what the company claims is the largest Web index
- Ask - processes questions in plain English, provides intelligent responses for user confirmation, then links directly to relevant, high-quality answers
- dmoz - the Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors
- EXCITE - Excite's weekly-updated Web index covers millions of full-text pages. Reviews of sites, Usenet newsgroups, hourly news and commentary, etc., are provided
- Google - Google only produces results that match all of your search terms, either in the text of the page or in the link anchors pointing to the page
- HotBot - indexes more than 160 million Web documents; offers a simple point and click interface, intuitive pull-down menus and the ability to use plain English terminology for constructing searches
- InfoseekUK - gives you relevant results, related topics, current news and views from popular magazines, TV networks, images, e-mail addresses, company profiles, etc
- Live.com
- Lycos - this comprehensive Internet catalogue finds what you need in seconds, including text, graphics and videosYahoo - arguably the pioneer Internet guide, and updated daily,
- Yahoo! allows users to browse and search subject categories, and to check up-to-the-minute weather, headlines, etc.
Scientific search engines
- Biology Browser - produced by BIOSIS, links to life sciences resources, current news, relevant web sites
- Google Scholar - search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and reports NB: remember to use the subject specific scholarly databases bought by the Library, many of which supply full-text
- InfoMine - searches scholarly Internet resource collections
- Scirus - the search engine for science, which focuses only on Web pages containing scientific content, searches more than 150 million science-related pages
Meta search engines
- Dogpile - fetches the best results from the combined pool of the best search engines -- Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, AskJeeves, About, FAST, FindWhat, LookSmart, etc. - instead of results from just one search engine
- Internet Sleuth - allows you to search using up to ten different search engines simultaneously
- WebCrawler - offers a speedy Web search engine and a random-links feature to find new and unusual sites. It also features a list of the most visited sites on the Web
