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Web Searching Tools

Master Lists and Search Engines

Note: The popular "surfer" sites (Yahoo, Galaxy, A2Z, etc.) are much more
comprehensive than the Library Compilations, but most of their breadth and
depth is filled with links to celebrity fan clubs, personal Web pages, TV listings, etc., and the ubiquitous commercial sites that offer
little or no substantive information.

The Library Compilations, however, feature fairly broad and deep subject trees with high-quality links (only) for virtually all academic disciplines. These guides are typically compiled by experts in their respective fields, and most are annotated to let you know whether a particular site is
likely to contain what you need. The Library Compilations usually load faster (fewer graphics) than the surfer sites.

Learn more about the Internet & Searching

Search Engine Colossus offers a large list of search engines
What resource do I use to find the right information? (Very good site.) (Noodle Tools)
NoodleQuest Http://www.noodletools.com/noodlequest
 

Practice the four NETS of searching for getting good search results.

Great searching resources: Beyond Google's First Page! - How to get better search results

 

Berkley has a nice page on types of web searches.

Kid-Friendly Search Engines

KidsClick!  #1 Ask Jeeves for Kids Scholastic Web Search #2 Kid Friendly Search listings
Yahooligans Factmonster ipL2 for Kids Dib Dab Doo
Ivy's Kids Search Resource      


Library Compilations of Internet Resources by Subject

UC-Riverside  (InfoMine) Columbia U Berkeley Public
UC-SantaBarb UC-Berkeley (Library) U Penn


Other Library Resources:
Libweb
The American Library Association They also have a site with over 700 child-friendly links to various subjects!
The Nebraska Library Commission and databases and Nebraska Access are all great resources!

Citation Guides for Internet resources

The Library Spot is an excellent site on library resources on the net

The Awesome Library site is a great resource... especially for educators.


Other Subject-Oriented Internet Guides:

Argus Clearinghouse  (Not updated anymore) Shuttle (Humanities) Librarian Index to the Web
NISS Directory Berkeley Public Library Search Digital Librarian Links
Yahoo Subjects Index EINet Galaxy ipL2 (Internet Public Library)
Electric Library (Pay Site) Internet Library (Pay Site)  

Search Engines:

Internet Topic/Keyword Searches:

Google (The KING):

Google Google Scholar Search Google Blog Search
Set Google Alerts Google News Search  
     

Google for educators: http://www.google.com/educators/index.html
Google Education apps:
www.google.com/a/edu -- A great free set of tools for a School district.

Excite Alta Vista All the Web (Fast!)
HotBot Yahoo PicSearch
Microsoft Live Search is now BING (As of May 2009) Wolframalpha  (Totally different!) LookSmart
askjeeves (natural language queries) Ask  (Ask images does a nice job too) Lycos
  AOL Search  
     

Google is the King of Search engines... here are a few articles and tips on how to find what you need:

bulletA great article in PC Magazine
bullet Google's own list of search operators  and a Nice site for creating advanced search syntax easily

 
The following list of "meta-search" sites launch multiple searches (several
different search engines) from a single site, and integrate the results:

Mamma Cyber 411 Metacrawler
ProFusion All4one Dog Pile
Savvy Search Search.com Inference FIND
SearchEDU.com (Notice it uses Google.) Beaucoup IXQuick
WebCrawler SurfWax Clusty

For finding info that the search engines may miss... try these sites:

InfoMine Resource Discovery network SearchMil.com (Military information Search)
Congoo (Limited free searches of pay sites.)    
Searchebooks.com (Ebook search) SearchGov.com (Find government info) Singing Fish (Find audio & Video)

Here is a Master List of Search Engines:
Search Tools at Columbia Library Services

Use these sites to find people /businesses/etc.:

PC Worlds list of 9 Sites That Find People and Their 'Sensitive' Information

Directory Assistance Plus www.yellow.com/ Infospace (Find People) Whowhere (Find People)
Switchboard (Find People) AnyWho (Find People) TelDir (Find people & Business) World Pages (find people abroad)
Zabasearch (Even the free info is good here!) Addresses.com (Yellow & White Pages)    

A list of researching sites:

 

 

Dictionary.com

Webster's Dictionary

OneLook Encyclopedia

Study Web

Thesaurus.com  Or try the Visual Thesaurus on this site!

encyclopedia.com

Research-It!

  Quote Search Wikipedia- Free online encyclopedia
NetLibrary (good for finding ebooks online) Statistics Site Encyclopedia Britannica
Travlang's Translating Dictionaries  Acromyn Finder Thinkexit.com- Great quote site!
Visual Thesarus  (Part of site is a pay site.) RefDesk.com (Excellent site!!) Bartlett's Quotes
Research Ville (Site is a pay site.) Find Articles (Good for Magazine articles) MagPortal.com (Good for Magazine articles)
Medline Plus- Great site for medical info CIA World Factbook InfoPlease Almanacs and Kids InfoPlease-(Fact Monster)
Crimereports.com  (Find how safe your neighborhood is.) Historical visual time-lines and great quotes. Biography.com (A nice site for finding biograpy's)
The Biographical Dictionary
Searchable biographical dictionary online
iTools Research Tools Great site with Quotes from the Presidents
 Quote-O-matic
Research Public Records Here (Some are pay sites.)  

 

A Few Miscellaneous Sites:

www.confusingwords.com  It is a collection of over 3000 words that are often confused such as effect and affect  It is a very nice site for this use...easy interface, etc... (May not

Common English Errors, is a site that shows common errors in English.

Babel Fish, Dictionary.com's translator and Freetranslation are sites that will translate documents (and web pages in other languages) from one language to another. (Great for foreign language subjects!)

The National Center for Education has a great site for finding info about schools.

Catalog of Government Publications is a good place to find government information and printed materials.

Findsounds.com A nice search engine for finding sounds

Phone Resources:
AT&T
EscapeArtist: All Nations
FoneFinder


 


-- A short side step... A cause we should all be concerned about!

-- Make sure yours students research and use the web wisely!!  You may get concerned about the above link....but be careful....it is very common and we would die without it!
Another good spoof site:  Save the Tree Octopus or
World Chocolate Supply Nearly Exhausted


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