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Search Engines & Directories, Using the Internet



Search Engines & Directories

Google
MSN
- click on "settings" to search in 10 additional languages
Ask Jeeves Search.com

 
Web Crawlers

Web crawlers allow searches to be sent to several search engines all at once. The results are then blended together onto one page.

Kartoo - a visual format so that you will see how they found and compiled your search

Dogpile - "...searching all the most popular engines and then giving you the best combined results all in one place"

Vivisimo - "Vivísimo's search and clustering solutions are based on a powerful new approach that organizes search results into meaningful categories."

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Images and Videos

AllTheWeb - "AlltheWeb offers a variety of specialized search tools and advanced search features, and supports searching in 36 different languages."

Yahoo Images - select IMAGES from the search bar

Ditto - "Ditto provides visual search of the web using pictures."

Finding Images on the Web - From Boston University. Copyrights, special image search engines, downloading and saving.

Finding Images Online - A very thorough site on the best ways to access the millions of images on the Net.

American Rhetoric - Downloadable audio files from a wide range of areas.

Internet Archive - Digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.

 

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Searching the Internet - How To's

Searching the Web - U.C. Berkeley

Internet Tutorials

Searching the Internet

Finding Web Sites

How To Evaluate Information on the Web - These strategies help researchers detect bad information on the Internet.

Evaluating Web Pages - exellent, site from Duke Universiy

Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques To Apply & Questions To Ask

Five Criteria for Evaluating WEB Pages

Guide to Effective Searching on the Internet

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources - from New Mexico State University

U. C. Berkeley Internet Tutorial

Glossary of Internet and Web Terms - Another helpful site from U. C. Berkeley

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