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Contents
General finding tools: subject
guides and directories, announcement services, current awareness
Learning to search
Encyclopedias, dictionaries, synonym dictionaries
and thesauri
Experts
Fee-based search services
Personal search agents, search engines monitoring services
Search filtering
Search engine code texts
Search engines for your site
Web-based Bookmark Managers
Accounting
Agriculture, forestry, veterinary, agricultural sciences, aquaculture
Alcoholism
American political rhetoric
Anthropology, native people
Archaeology
Architecture
Art
Arts and crafts
Arts and humanities
Asian studies
Associations, societies
Astronomy
Astrophysics
Audio, Midi, Mp3 (MPEG level 3), Real Audio, Multimedia
Audiology, hearing loss, hearing aids, ear
Biology, biochemistry, biosciences
Books
Botany, plants
Broadcasting, radio
Business, entrepreneurship, companies, products and services,
trade
Casinos, gambling, horse racing track, sports betting
Celebrities
Chemistry
Classical antiquity, Middle Ages, medieval, mediaeval
Cliches
Collecting, collectables, antiques
Computer science, computers, computing, hardware, operating
systems
Cybercafes, Internet cafes
Dance
Databases and bibliographies, special search engines, Webrings
Death, funerals, cemeteries
Dentistry
Development, environment
Disasters
Do it yourself
Domain names
Ecology, environment
Economy
Education
Employment, jobs, labour, work
Energy
Engineering
Entertainment, movies and movie reviews, television, showbusiness,
theater
FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
Fashion
Finance, investment, money, loans
Food and beverage
Freebies, free stuff
Games
Gender & Race
Genealogy
Genetics, bioinformatics
Geology, geography, earth sciences, mining
Government information (US)
Graphical, images, art, video
History
Holidays
Human rights
Humor, fun stuff, cartoons, comic books
International relations and security, embassies, defense,
military
Internet, World Wide Web, scripts, CGI, Java
Internet marketing and advertising
Kids
Language, linguistics, literature, poetry
Law, legal
Library and information science, librarianship, information
technology (IT)
Maps
Mathematics
Medicine, health
Music
Mysticism, occultism, satanism, paranormal, esotericism
National, regional, local
News, general, reference
Non-linear systems
Oceanography
Online forums
Otherwise special
Parenting, pregnancy, adoption
People, E-mail addresses
Penpals
Philanthropy
Philosophy
Photography
Physics
Politics, hate groups, conspiracy
Printing
Product comparisons and Internet store ratings
Psychology and mental health
Public safety, law enforcement, police, fire fighting
Reference
Religion, general
Religion, atheism, secularism, freethought
Religion, baha'i
Religion, buddhism
Religion, christianity
Religion, healing, metaphysics, new age
Religion, hinduism
Religion, islam
Religion, judaism
Religion: sikhs, sikhism
Scholarly societies
Science
Science fiction
Search engines, bots
Semiconductors
Seniors, old people, elderly people
Shareware, freeware, software, scripts (PERL, CGI), drivers,
fonts
Shopping, shopbots
Social sciences
Sociology
Softdrugs
Special document formats (XML, PDF etc.)
Sport and leisure, outdoors
Standards
Statistics
Subculture
Toxicology
Trade marks and patents
Travel, accommodation, transport, aviation
Trivia
Trucks, trailers, equipment
Veterans
Volcanology
Weather, meteorology, climatology
Work
Y2K - Year 2000 - Millennium Bug
Zoology, animals, pets, domestic animals
For fast queries on the WWW
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Special Search Engines
Introduction
This is a collection of links to special search engines and
searchable directories. They are provides as teacher support
not for children.
General finding tools: subject guides and directories, announcement
services
Subject guides and directories
Announcement services, newsletters (with or without
searchable archives), current awareness
- Current Awareness Research (in Free Pint No. 8)
- Cyberlibrarians' Rest Stop: Web Savvy: Keeping Current
with Web-based Resources
- Web
Soup Front Door
- Daily Diffs Folder: Internet Search Engine News (this
is only one of the folders of a more general news service)
- New Web Sites (list of announcement services)
- Last week's additions to Yahoo! found for search engine
- Last month's additions to Yahoo! found for search engine
- Keeping
Current with the Internet: a Selected Webliography
- Librarians' Index to the Internet: New This Week and
More New This Week; one may also subscribe
- Loughborough University Library - Keeping your Research
up to date
- Internet
Scout Project
- Ariadne
- the Web version (describes and evaluates sources and
services available on the Internet, and of potential use,
to librarians and information professionals)
- Internet Resources Newsletter (a free newsletter for
academics, students, engineers, scientists & social
scientists)
- Netsurfer
Science Home Page (Netsurfer Science is a FREE e-mail
delivered e-zine bringing neat science and technology sites
directly to your mailbox)
- Staying on top of Cyberspace (from the creatrix of
the Librarians' Site du Jour, Jenny Hawk)
- Library Web Manager's Reference Center: Current Awareness
- Keeping Current (from Gary Price, MLIS, George Washington
University)
- Net-happenings Archive (searchable archive of important
resource announcements)
- The Weekly
Bookmark (searchable archive of resource announcements)
- What's
new too (searchable archive of resource announcements);
see also the Custom Page for searching
only specific categories
- comp.infosystems.www.announce Search Page, or for full-text
searching: comp.infosystems.www.announce Full-text Search Page
- Neat
New Stuff on the Net - New Sites by "librarian without
walls" Marylaine Block
- Internet
Research News (newsletter mainly on search engines;
aka ResearchBuzz; see also LinkBank - ResearchBuzz -- Internet Research Resources)
- Buscopio: buscador de buscadores - Novedades
- Hot Search Sites of the Week - Web Search - Net Links
- SearchPower.com What's New
- Die
Suchfibel. Was gibt's Neues?
- Some of the Latest Additions to Search Engines in Review
- Search Engine Forums - powered by the Ultimate Bulletin
Board (this collection of forums also has its own Search Engine Forums Search Page)
- A-Media: The I-Search Discussion List (discussions
frequently focus on Yahoo!, Alta Vista, Excite, Hot Bot,
Infoseek, Lycos, and Web Crawler; plus international, pay-per
click and specialized search engines)
- Scout Report Signpost (searchable archive of Scout
Report summaries)
- Links
Rx - FFA Submissions and Search Engine! (search engine
for Free For All Internet resources announcement sites)
- Internet Prospector Reference Desk - Nonprofit Prospect
Research
- Current Awareness Resources
Learning to search
- Tool Kit for the Expert Web Searcher
- MEGASOURCES:
Surfing for Information and Journalism Resources
- Internet Research FAQ
- ICYouSee (designed to serve as a self-guided training
page and tour of the World Wide Web)
- Directory
of Online Resources for Information Literacy (to get
a perspective how to deal with information)
- Teachersweb Search Tutorial (highly instructive and
complete, very well presented)
- Best Information on the Net (BIOTN) - Search Engines
- Ex
Libris--an E-Zine for Librarians and Information Junkies
(e-zine from Marylaine Block)
- Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals
- Online
Magazine
- Database Magazine
- The
Spider's Apprentice
- Search
Engines + Syntax Examples = FINDSPOT
- Where Do We Put the Web Search Engines (by reference
librarian Susan Feldman)
- Boolean Searching on the Internet
- Finding Information on the Internet: A TUTORIAL (UC
Berkeley Library online tutorial)
- How to Choose the Search Tools or Databases You Need for
Web Searching. Recommended search engines.
- Search the Internet - A Graduated, Nearly Failsafe Approach
in 4 Steps
- Handbuch
Internet Recherche
- IntroNet: A Beginner's Guide to Searching the Internet
- Finding Things on the Internet
- Search Engine Terms - a glossary of internet search technology
- Web Searching, Sleuthing and Sifting (Angela Elkordy,
Coordinator of Electronic Resources, The Sage Colleges)
- How to Do Field Searching in Web Search Engines: A Field
Trip
- Mata Hari Tutorial: Guide to Effective Searching of the
Internet
- http://www.intermediacy.com/sherlock/index.phtml
- The
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science
Education Guide to Searching the Web
- Search Engines for the Internet
- Sink or Swim: Internet Search Tools & Techniques (Version
3.5)
- How to Search the World Wide Web : A Tutorial for Beginners
and Non-Experts (by David P. Habib and Robert L. Balliot)
- Choose the Best Search Engine for Your Information Needs
- Finding It Online: Web Search Strategies (by Debbie
Flanagan)
- Education World Curriculum: Scavenger Hunts: Searching
for Treasure on the Internet
- Squirrel
Hunt - Bi-weekly Internet Scavenger Hunt and Teacher Resources
- Internet Detective (an interactive tutorial on evaluating
the quality of Internet resources)
- Search Engines: What they Are, How They Work, and Practical
Suggestions for Getting the Most Out of Them - webreference.com
(by Bruce Grossan)
- CNET features - digital life - can you trust your search
engine? (some simple but useful tips)
- Web Search - Home Page (Chris Sherman's Mining Co.
Guide to Web Search, with many special themes); see also
his Search Engines and Directories - Web Search - Net Links
and don't forget to subscribe to their free Web Search newsletter! (or read his Search Insider)
- Tips for searching the Web [Steve Lawrence, Lee Giles,
NEC Research Institute]
- Search & Find (in German)
- Search
Engine Showdown: The Users' Guide to Web Searching
- !How
to Search the World Wide Web! (comprehensive site, dedicated
to searching)
- Die
Suchfibel. Alles über Suchmaschinen und die Suche im Internet
(comprehensive German site, dedicated to many aspects of
searching)
- The
SPIRE Project (a subject guide for Information Research.
These articles address useful resources, assisting you to
gather information)
- Seven Steps Toward Better Searching
- Smart Searching Archive - Web Search - Net Links (by
MiningCo's Chris Sherman)
- John Barger's search.literate
- Science and Health on the Internet
- Internet
Tools for the Advanced Searcher (by Phil Bradley)
- Seven Steps Toward Better Searching (by Bernie Dodge;
you can do a seven steps quiz)
- Aberdeen University Internet Guide - Part I: Search engines
- Expert Searching: A Guide to Developing Your Search Skills
- How the Search Engines Work
- Internet Search Engine Guide
- Pandia Goalgetter Internet Searc Tutorial - a guide to
searching the Web
- Searching the Web
- How Do You Yahoo? The Savvy Searcher's Guide to Internet
Search Tools
- How to search
the Internet: Guides and Tutorials Modular
Web Teaching Pyramid
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- Encyclopedias, dictioaries, synonym
dictionaries and thesauri
Experts
Fee-based search services
Personal search agents, Web monitoring services
Search engine code texts
Search Filtering
Search engines for your site
- Web
Site Search Tools
- Search Engine Software For Your Web Site
- Introduction to Web Site Search Tools
- Guide to Web Site Search Tools (see especially the
extensive list of site search tools in Site
Search Tools - Product Information) Search
Engine Software For Your Web Site
- Search and Deploy - Search Engines for your Web site
- Search
Engine Software For Your Web Site
- CNET Builder.com - Web Servers - Add search to your site
(by Avi Rappoport)
- Web Review - Choosing and Using a Site Search Engine
- Search Engines for Local Web Sites
- TEAMS Search (example how to use AltaVista for your
site search; try: math)
- PicoSearch
(remotely hosted)
- Findex Full Text Indexing and Retrieval (Search) Engine
Toolkit
- PinPoint
- Site Search Tool (remotely hosted)
- Search
engines for YOUR site! Free, without CGIs (remotely
hosted)
- SearchButton.com (remotely hosted)
- whatUseek | intraSearch home (remotely hosted; free
service provided by whatUseek)
- Excite for Web servers download
- AltaVista
Discovery
- Simple Search (Perl script)
- WebSearch (Perl script)
- ICE
(Perl script)
- Thunderstone Free Search Engine Service (remotely hosted)
- Webinator Web Index System
- Bob
on the Web Site Search (Java applet)
- HouseSpider (Java applet)
- Java,
JavaScript, Shareware: Site Search Applet
- JavaScript Site Search Scripts
- WHIRL
Homepage (WHIRL is a system that's designed to integrate
information from various places on the Web. Rather than
exploring a number of sites to get the information you want,
WHIRL enables you to simultaneously query a number of related
sites using a database-like interface)
- Search Engine Software (Web Search)
- locus
fulltext database (Linux database software)
- The Lucene
Search Engine (Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured
text search engine, written in Java)
- Webglimpse
- Search Engine Software (Webglimpse is a fast, flexible
search engine for finding information in a related web of
pages. The ability to index pages on remote sites provides
a level of power one step above most search engine tools.
You can define your own sub-area of the web simply by making
a page of links to all relevant sites. Webglimpse will search
by following your links, to whatever 'depth' you specify)
- Installation and Configuration of Harvest on a Linux Alpha
Box (Harvest cooperates with Glimpse - a UNIX
Search Engine)
- LinkBank
- The best way to build your own search engine! (creates
a Yahoo-like directory and search engine of your annotated
links)
- Alkaline
Search Engine (Alkaline is FREE! for non commercial
sites and individuals)
- ht://Dig
-- Internet search engine software (the whole system
is released under the GNU General Public License)
- Infostreak Software - Home of the URL Spider! (you
can try a free demo)
- Infostreak
Software - Products (URL Indexer v1.0 Windows 9x/NT
Web Servers Only)
- CGI-scripts: Links (free for non-commercial use CGI-script
that will allow you to manage a mini directory, modelled
after Yahoo; see also: MegaLinks 2.01: Links Links
- IBM AS/400 NetQuestion
- eXtense
| Logiciels d'indexation et de recherche
- SiteSearch 1.0a Signup (remotely hosted)
- dynamic-core.net: XSearch (XSearch is a freeware search
engine written in Javascript)
- FreeFind
Search Engine
- EZCGI RemoteApps: Aladdin Search Engine Features (remotely
hosted)
- Webmonkey: backend: Roll Your Own Search Engine (article
about how to add a search page to your own Web site with
just a few lines of Perl)
- Die Maschinisten (wir stellen kostenlose Suchmaschinen
für informative Webprojekte zur Verfügung, die entweder
ein lokales Webprojekt oder eine umfangreiche und themenspezifische
Linksammlung durchsuchen; great free scripts!!!)
- SWISH-Enhanced - Digital Library SunSITE
- ResearchIndex: The NECI Scientific Literature Digital Library
[Steve Lawrence, Lee Giles, Kurt Bollacker, NEC Research
Institute]
- Beseen: My search login (remotely hosted)
- Atomz.com
Search Engine (remotely hosted)
- Siteminer
(remotely hosted)
- Free
Web Search Engine: UdmSearch General
- indexfinger.com - The Leader In Website Software Development
- KnowledgeBox
- MondoSearch
- The Most Intuitively Powerful Search Engine for Corporate
Web Sites
- SearchKing Portal 4 U
Web-based Bookmark Managers
Accounting
Agriculture, forestry, veterinary, agricultural sciences,
aquaculture
Alcoholism
American political rhetoric
Anthropology, native people
Archaeology
Architecture, building
Art
Arts and crafts, hobbies
- Crafts,
Inc. - Arts and Crafts, Hobbies and More!; (alternative URL)
- Search.com
(CraftSearch.com, HobbySearch.com, QuiltSearch.com and SewingSearch.com,
the Internet search engines for the greater arts, sewing,
craft & hobby markets)
- Crafts Search - Search the web for Crafts
- Wool
Works: the online knitting compendium (links to more
than 600 knitting and textile resources)
- ThreadHeads - Embroidery & Monogramming Search Engine
- iModelle
- Sewing Pattern search engine portal vortal
- 1st
Arts and Crafts a Directory for Artists, Crafters and Hobbyist
- StoneHoo Links Directory [Learning Stone - sculpture, carving,
workshops, quarries
- A Modeller
(model boats, model cars, model flying, model rail etc.)
- LJ
Aquatics - Ponds, Pumps, UVS and all your Garden Pond, Tropical
and Marine needs
- Clayzee
- Worldwide Ceramics and Pottery Directory
Arts and humanities
Asian studies
Associations, societies
Astronomy
Astrophysics
Audio, Midi, Mp3 (MPEG level 3), Real Audio, Multimedia
Audiology, hearing loss, hearing aids, ear
Biology, biochemistry, biosciences
(see also Genetics, bioinformatics)
Books
(see also: Language, linguistics, literature)
- eText Sites ... Electronic Text (eText) and Electronic
Books (eBooks)
- BEST BIG ONLINE BOOKSTORES:A Consumer's Guide to Virtual
On-line Bookstores
- Books
& Book Collecting
- Best
Book Buys Homepage
- Acses
- AddALL
book search and price comparison
- TextbookHound.Com - Search over 20 online college textbook
stores
- BIGWORDS.com
- textbooks, music, and gear
- Bargain Books - Overstocked - Remainder - Out of Print
Books from 1Bargainbookstreet
- Bookfinder.com (second hand books, out-of-print books)
- Alibris - The Ultimate Source for OP and Rare Books 367299dd2
- AddALL
Used or Out of Print books search
- bibliofind search form (used, second-hand, rare and
antiquarian books)
- Zentrales
Verzeichnis Antiquarischer Bücher (used, second-hand,
rare and antiquarian books from 80, mostly German, antiquarian
booksellers
- Antiqbook
catalogues (from Dutch booksellers)
- Advanced Book Exchange Book Search
- Books
On-Line: Search (online books)
- BIBLIOMANIA.
The Network Library (online texts)
- bibliophile
net books, old, antiquarian, rare, search and buy
- Search Bookwire (try: Winterson)
- Alex
Catalogue of Electronic Texts (a ROADS
project)
- IPL Online Texts Collection
- PROJECT
GUTENBERG - Search and Download Etexts
- Literary
Leaps -- 1000s of Publishing, Publisher, Author & Book
Links from BookZone
- Thematic
Search Engines - Books SEARCH
- 21
North Main, seller of used books
- abebooks.com
- the world's largest source of out-of-print books!
- Abracadabra
Booksearch International, Searching for Used Books, Rare
books and Antiquarian Books
- BookSearch - The Big Link
- Alibris - Books you thought you'd never find
- Bookpricer.com SearcheBooks.com (find eBooks in which the name Rip
van Winkle appears)
- Booksearchengine (incldes a directory of book Websites
and a shopping agent)
Botany, plants
Broadcasting, radio
Business, entrepreneurship, companies, products and services,
trade, commerce
General
- 'Major Sources of Business Information on the Internet'
(in Free Pint No. 1)
- "Business and Accounting Resources on the Web" by Ben Heald
(in Free Pint No. 10)
- Entrepreneurial Resources Intellifact.com Business
Research Tutorial
- International Trade Resources
- Library of Links for Business (this is not a search
engine, but a very extensive list of links to business-related
finding tools)
- Berkeley Business Guide No. 18: Internet Resources in Business
& Economics
- Researching Companies on the Internet - A Tutorial
- Business Information Sources on the internet: index
(by Sheila Webber; great guide, with a search engine)
- http://www.brint.com/
- Sookoo!
- The Business Strategy Search Specialist
- BPubs.com
- The Business Publications Search Engine ("An extensive
collection of Business Articles and Publications for both
Small Business Owners and Corporate Executives.")
- The
CI Resource Index - A competitive intelligence search engine
- LinkStar®
Business Directory
- CommerceInc Tour
- Websense, Inc. - Company Locator
- Company
Sleuth: Homepage
- CorporateInformation ("Good starting point to find
corporate information from around the world" -- US News
& World Report, 2/23/98)
- Welcome
to Hoover's Online: The Business Network
- EDGAR
Online: The Source for Today's SEC Filings (U.S.)
- Pronet
Business Search Engine International multilingual Business
Directory
- CEO
Express: Executive Gateway to the Internet (instant
Internet command for the chief executive)
- http://www.exportall.net/ (international in scope)
- Grail
Search - Main Page (directory of international business
resources on the Web)
- BizWeb
Business Guide to the Web
- iAtlas
(interesting concept: lets you search by product, with several
filters, and then look up company information, competitors
and so on; search e.g. for "dog food" in the category "pet
supplies" in the state of California, and find out which
competitors Petco Animal Supplies has; this, at least, is
how it should work)
- Livelink
Pinstripe
- Business Search
Engine - Pronet International Business Directory Pronet
Search Engine
- FIND/SVP:
Business Research, Consulting and Management Advisory Services
(offers several search services)
- DASI.DE -
Der deutsche Business-Web-Guide (Germany)
- Biz/ed - Search (a ROADS
project)
- The
Kelsey Group - Business Directories
- Findyourbiz
Your Business search engine of the 21st century!!
- SBFocus.com
- The Small Business Focused Search Engine
- Smallbizsearch.com - Smart Searches for Small Business
- AllSmallBiz.com: All Small Business Information Search
Engine
- CompaniesOnline Search (US companies)
- Worldwide Search Engine to find any business, product,
or service
- An ISO9000
search facility - The ISO9k Network (ISO9k.net provides
a search mechanism for locating products, services, and
resources offered by and provided to companies registered
for ISO9000)
- World
Trade Search
- SONAR
Search Page (devoted to providing linkages to international
trade related sites around the world)
- Global
Information Network: global trades, importing, exporting,
logistics, logistics, and international business needs
- CompaniesOnline Search (US)
- World
Trade Zone
- International Trade -- Import-Export Portal
- Exporters.com.sg - For Businesses That Power The World
Economy
- Welcome
to Corporate Location (corporate location briefings
on more than 200 countries worldwide; try the speedsearch
to see how it works)
- Trade Show Central Search Utility
- First
Fairs' Fair - f3 search engine (this search engine allows
you to find fairs' information using one or more keywords)
- EuroScanner,
EURO search engine
- dot com directory
- ciseek.com - The CI Resource Index - A competitive intelligence
search engine
- Welcome to deBarcode.com (this interesting search engine
links bar codes to the Web sites of producers)
- The Conference Board Search Page
- The
European Directory - The Search Directory dedicated to European
businesses, services and products
- Zip2 - Find
a Business Near You (U.S.)
- Business.com
- Business Information Without the Clutter
- Stax links
(not a search engine but [as far as I can see] a useful
linkbox for the business person)
pecial
- "Food
Industry Information on the Web" by Geoff Ford (in Free
Pint No. 15)
- Worldwide
Composites (WWC) Search Engine
- Search
for Computer, Engineering, and Business Publications
- ElectricalSearch Home (electrical industry)
- ELECTRICA
La Guia Electrica de Internet
- EEM - Electronic
Engineer's Master Online
- TradeLock.com
- Where Jewelers Search the Web
- Guía Internacional de Joyería - International Jewelry Index
- ESPNGO.com
-- Diamond Grading Com
- FinishingSearch.Com - The Paint, Powder Coating, and Finishing
Search Engine (Paint, Powder Coating, Metal Finishing,
Finishing, powder, pigments, coating, paint booth filters,
spray booth filters, paint booths, spray booths, electrostatic,
paint guns)
- 10K
Wizard Quick Search Menu (SEC filings)
- TextileWeb
- The exclusive search engine for Textiles, Apparel, and
Associated Supporting Industries
- TextileCentre
- Welcome
to Aeneid Corporation (searches (Inktomi indexed) selected
servers on high-tech industry and business press topics
a.o.; see Greg Notess's aricle on Unknown Search Gems in Planet IT Internet/Intranets
TechCenter)
- Home-based Bill's WebDex - The Ultimate Search Engine for
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