Search Engines

Search Engines

The following search engines are to be used only when you have exhausted all other library research resources. Remember that these search engines are not always going to provide you with the information that you need. If you have any questions about the search results that you received, just see Mr. Allen or your regular classroom teacher for assistance.

4Anything We've put a 4 on the front and .com on the back of each word to make one site: 4wine.com, 4baseball.com, or 4NewYork.com. More than 1,000 sites to date are available. Then our professional editors search through millions of web sites about the topic you are interested in so you don't have to. The editors pick about 70 or 80 of the best links about a topic and put them on one site. For example; the best links for baseball on 4baseball.com, the best links for chocolates on 4chocolates.com, and so on.

AltaVista The AltaVista search service helps you find Web pages, news, discussions, products, images, video or audio clips on the World Wide Web. One of the most comprehensive search engines.

Ask Jeeves Type a question for Jeeves just the way you would phrase it if you were asking a friend. Jeeves will immediately begin navigating through hundreds of millions of web sites to find just the answers you need, and deliver the results quickly and thoroughly to your screen.

Excite Check headline news, stock quotes, or the latest sports scores. We weed through the web to bring you the best information, then organize, categorize, and give it to you in the simplest, most comprehensive format possible.

Google Scholar Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.

HotBot HotBot indexes every word, link, and media file on more than 110 million Web documents and refreshes its entire database of documents every three to four weeks to eliminate web pages that no longer exist.

Infoseek Search a large index of web pages when you want to perform a comprehensive search. Search or browse the Reviewed Sites directory, a smaller, more selective directory of hand-picked web pages. In addition to searching for web pages, you can also search for images, recent news stories, company biographies, and Usenet newsgroups.

Lycos Lycos Network provides leading Web search and navigation, communications and personalization tools, and a cutting-edge shopping center. Integrated, these sites help each individual user locate, retrieve, and manage information tailored to his or her personal interests.

Search.com This one allows you to search by subject area of interest or on the entire Internet. This is powered by Infoseek.

SweetSearch A search engine for students. Every web site here has been evaluated by research experts.

Teoma.com In addition to utilizing existing search techniques, Teoma applies authority, a new measure of relevance, to deliver authoritative search results. To determine the level of authority associated with a particular site, Teoma employs three proprietary techniques: Refine, Results and Resources.

WebCrawler When you type in a series of search terms, WebCrawler is programmed to find results that match any or all of those words. However, WebCrawler assumes that you're most interested in results that contain all of the words you entered and gives those documents a higher relevance score so they appear at the top of the list.

Yahoo! This is a very general search engine. You can find most anything from this site. Hundreds of links are available. This site could be difficult because it will give you a lot of hits for a search. Be sure to narrow your search down as much as you can.

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