South Amherst Middle School Library

152 West Main Street Amherst, Ohio 44001

 

SEARCHING THE WEB


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Search Engines

 

 
Alta Vista is one of the best search engines out there.  It can even translate web pages into other languages.
 

Answers.com marries the best of community-driven questions and answers with hundreds of respected and trusted editorial reference books. The site knows the best answer to give you, whether it summons the expansive, ever-growing collection of community answers from Wiki Answers, or it taps into its Reference Answers database, a comprehensive set of editorial, licensed reference topics.

 
Bing is a search engine that finds and organizes the answers you need so you can make faster, more informed decisions.
 

Boolify makes it easier for students to understand their web search by illustrating the logic of their search, and by showing them how each change to their search instantly changes their results. It's simple, immediate and easy to use with your class or in your library. Search results are presented through Google's "Safe Search STRICT" technology. There are two important caveats: a) no filtering technology is 100% secure, and 2) we are unable to control or modify the results that we provide, beyond the filtering settings available through Google.

 
Excite is another fine search site.  It has transformed into a portal of information.
 
Google could be the best search engiine on the web.   Check out their image search ability.
 
Lycos is very similar to Excite and Infoseek.
 

Schoolr is a search engine that uses Google, Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, Wikipedia, Acronym Finder, Unitconversion, Bablefish and Worfram-Alpha.

Search-cube is a visual search engine that presents web search results in a unique, three-dimensional cube interface. It shows previews of up to ninety-six websites, videos and images.

SweetSearch is a Search Engine for Students. It searches only the 35,000 Web sites that their staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved when creating the content on finding Dulcinea. They constantly evaluate their search results and "fine-tune" them, by increasing the ranking of Web sites from organizations such as the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, PBS and university Web sites.  

SweetSearch helps students find outstanding information, faster. It enables them to determine the most relevant results from a list of credible resources, and makes it much easier for them to find primary sources. They exclude not only the spam sites that many students could spot, but also the marginal sites that read well and authoritatively, but lack academic or journalistic rigor. As importantly, the very best Web sites that appear on the first page of SweetSearch results are often buried on other search engines.

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Search Directories

 

 
About.com lets you dig deep for information.
 
On Beaucoup you will find different search engines for a variety of purposes. Check it out.
 

Bubl Link is a selected catalogue of Internet Resources covering all academic subject areas.

 

ipl2 is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment. To date, thousands of students and volunteer library and information science professionals have been involved in answering reference questions for our Ask an ipl2 Librarian service and in designing, building, creating and maintaining the ipl2's collections.

RefSeek can be described as a search engine that is geared towards students and researchers everywhere. It is a directory of the best reference sites in selected academic areas and includes almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, and more.

 
Yahoo may be the most popular search tool.

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Specialized Engines

 

 
SearchMil.com allows you to search military sites.
 
At the Internet Movie Database you will find all types of movie and television information.

Tek Mom designed this page to provide research options for students who need to do Web searches. The tools on this page will provide first-level access to only a subset of Web resources. While students will be statistically more likely to find only relevant sites, they unfortunately may not find some of the best information that is available on the Internet, so adults may be needed to find additional information.

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Multi searchers

Search.com provides information about search engines as well as searching specialized search engines.
Mamma takes good care of all your searching needs.
Dogpile not only retrieves the news but all sorts of other information.

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Updated: October 17, 2011