World Wide Web Research Tools World Wide Web Research ToolsRobert Harris + February 17, 2014 Yes, I know that Google is the search tool of choice preferred by many people as their go-to guy when they want to know something or find a photo. But you ought to use a variety of search tools when you need to do an in-depth look for something. So, anyway, moving right along. E n g i n e s Custom Search D i r e c t o r i e s R e f e r e n c e a n d D a t a b a s e s G r a p h i c s S p e c i a l t y P e r i o d i c a l s G o v e r n m e n t B o o k s M e d i a N e w s Search Tips | Evaluating Research | Information Biases | Search Engine WatchSearch Engine Showdown | Citing Web Pages MLA Style | APA Citation Style VirtualSalt HomeCopyright 2001-2010 by Robert Harris | How to cite this pagew w w . v i r t u a l s a l t . c o mAbout the author:Robert Harris is a writer and educator with more than 25 years of teaching experience at the college and university level.
20 of the Best Search Engines for Students Jun 02, 2011 Google, Bing and Yahoo! are great for broad questions, but research can often be a lot easier with a focused search. Check out these 20 useful search engines that can help students find academic information, people, video, photos, audio and more. Academic Search Engines Google Scholar - Powered by Google, this search engine makes it easy to find papers, abstracts, citations and other scholarly literature. iSEEK - Designed specifically for students and educators, iSEEK is a non-commercial search engine that delivers editor-reviewed results from universities, government sites and other noncommercial providers. Social Search Engines Wink - Wink is the world's largest people search engine.
Metacrawlers and Metasearch Engines Unlike search engines, metacrawlers don't crawl the web themselves to build listings. Instead, they allow searches to be sent to several search engines all at once. The results are then blended together onto one page. Jump To: Award Winners - Other Choices - Specialty Choices All-In-One Search - Meta Search Articles Award Winners Dogpile Popular metasearch site owned by InfoSpace that sends a search to a customizable list of search engines, directories and specialty search sites, then displays results from each search engine individually. Vivisimo Enter a search term, and Vivismo will not only pull back matching responses from major search engines but also automatically organize the pages into categories. Kartoo If you like the idea of seeing your web results visually, this meta search site shows the results with sites being interconnected by keywords. Other Top Choices See something you like? Specialty Choices
The WWW Virtual Library The Venus Project Highway61.com 10 Search Engines for Students The Internet has made learning almost anything easier, but finding what you're looking for on the Internet can be an overwhelming experience. Our list of 10 search engines includes some of the most popular general engines, plus some specialty engines that might be particularly helpful to students. Special thanks to Wendy Boswell, About's Guide to Web Search. 1. Google Google seems to be most everyone's default search engine. Wendy has created a handy advanced shortcut cheat sheet: Google Advanced Search Shortcuts. 2. Microsoft Bing Bing is a Microsoft product formerly called Microsoft Live Search. 3. In addition to being a web portal, Yahoo! Check out Wendy's Yahoo! 4. dogpile dogpile Dogpile is a meta search engine, which means it gathers results from several engines, including Google, Bing, Yahoo! Wendy walks you through how to use each of Dogpile's categories: How to Use Dogpile. 5. Ask.com Wendy has some nice tips for How to Search with Ask.com. 6. Lycos 7. blinkx 8. Wolfram|Alpha 9. TalkMiner
Listphile: Shared lists, atlases, and databases WebP for .NET Meta-Search Engines-The Library "Smarter" meta-searcher technology includes clustering and linguistic analysis that attempts to show you themes within results, and some fancy textual analysis and display that can help you dig deeply into a set of results. However, neither of these technologies is any better than the quality of the search engine databases they obtain results from. Few meta-searchers allow you to delve into the largest, most useful search engine databases. Although we respect the potential of textual analysis and clustering technologies, we recommend directly searching individual search engines to get the most precise results, and using meta-searchers if you want to explore more broadly. The meta-search tools listed here are "use at your own risk." Better Meta-Searchers Meta-Search Engines for SERIOUS Deep Digging CSEs: Make Your Own Meta-Search Engine Google Custom Search Engines (CSEs) focus on selected websites within the Google database. How Do You Find Custom Search Engines