Subject pages attached to craig:web/search

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1.	Altavista [Advanced Search] [Image Search] AltaVista is fast and comprehensive. It searches the entire full-text of web pages and Usenet articles. Pros: Very powerful and extensive database that can be power-searched from page one. Cons: Too many hits may overwhelm novice searchers. URL: http://www.altavista.com
2.	Google [linux searches] Search engine originally developed at the Stanford University Computer Science Department, rates the relevance of a Webpage to a particular search query in part by examining how many other Webpages link to it. A new feature in the final version is GoogleScout, which offers an additional list of related URLS for each search return. URL: http://www.google.com
3.	HotBot HotBot is a fast, comprehensive, robot-based web index run by Wired. It is perhaps the largest web index and lists over 35 million documents. Pros: Large index, updated weekly. Good navigational aids. Cons: Peculiar results due to erratic treatment of Boolean and exact phrase searches. URL: http://www.hotbot.com
4.	Yahoo Yahoo catalogs sites manually, depending largely on user submissions. The front page is an alphabetical list of fourteen broad subject areas which are then subdivided into smaller categories. Pros: Easiest search page for new users. Very well-organized. Cons: Can be hard to differentiate between categories and sites. Site listings are not very up-to-date URL: http://www.yahoo.com
5.	Information Research FAQ Webpages are often of unknown age, of only guessed at quality and potentially the easiest information to retrieve. There are many points of entry into this field, but few are quick enough to be useful in serious research (as distinct from recreational surfing) URL: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/internet/info-research-faq/part2/
6.	Magellan Offers the options of searching sites it has rated and reviewed, or its entire database. Sites are browsable by topic and sub-topic. An added neat feature is the search voyeur which displays randomly selected real-time searches that other users are currently conducting. Pros: Site rating system is comprehensive and useful for selecting quality sites. Cons: Database is far from comprehensive. Browsing by topic can be cumbersome. URL: http://www.mckinley.com/
7.	Search Engine Showdown the latest news from the world of search engines, with comparative charts and in-depths studies of the best search engines on the Web. Search strategies, statistics, search engine features, and the latest news are all available here. URL: http://www.notess.com/search

8.	Hypersearching the Web [Scientific American] Can search engines be made smarter? This is an excellent article published by Scientific American that examines those questions, gives an outline of current search engine technology and details some of the R&D that's being done in the search engine field. URL: http://www.sciam.com/1999/0699issue/0699raghavan.html
9.	¬Web Guru's answers on searching Answers to pertinent questions about searching for items on the web. URL: http://www3.zdnet.com/yil/content/surfschool/guru/gurusearch.html
10.	BOTSPOT Three years old, Botspot is the place to go if you want to learn more about these programs and where to find the best ones. The site profiles a "Bot of the Week," reviews the selected bots, and gives a glimpse of this fascinating and burgeoning area of computing. URL: http://www.botspot.com

11.	LookSmart Running licensed technology of Altavista. URL: http://www.looksmart.com

12.	Netcraft Search 15 million web server addresses. URL: http://www.netcraft.com
13.	Whois Search for the existence/owner of a particular domain name in the .com/.net/.org domain set. URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois
14.	1Global Place Search for domain name availability in 50 countries URL: http://www.1globalplace.com
15.	Switzerland NIC Registration service for Internet domain names with extensions .ch and .li. URL: http://www.nic.ch

16.	News at Google News searching/browsing. URL: http://news.google.com/
17.	Catalogs at Google Search scanned images of popular mail-order catalogs. URL: http://catalogs.google.com

18.

Google Voice the Web's best free voice app By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Cyber Cynic. I'm going to let you in on a little secret: I hate the telephone. I hate being interrupted when I'm in the middle of writing. I can't stand mobile phones, although I use them, and I've gotten sick and tired of buying both new land line and mobile phones every other year. Those are some of the reasons why I think Google releasing Google Voice for everyone -- well, everyone in the U.S. -- is great news. URL: http://blogs.computerworld.com/16386/google_voice_the_webs_best_free_voice_app

19.	Web Searching Guide [Internet Public Library] URL: http://www.ipl.org/ref/websearching.html
20.	Search Sites Report from PC Magazine reviews and rates fifteen of the most popular search engines. The report includes brief reviews of each engine; a scorecard rating the engines on relevancy, query customization, duplicate and dead link elimination URL: http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2327803,00.html
21.	Guide to Network Resource Tools [GNRT] Intended primarily as a guide for newcomers, but also useful as a reference for more experienced Internauts, the GNRT provides overviews of some, but by no means all, of the most popular general and specific Web and search tools. URL: http://www.terena.nl/libr/gnrt/websearch
22.	Search Power "The World's Largest Search Engine Directory Now with 2317 Internet Search Engines, and growing!" URL: http://www.searchpower.com/
23.	A squillion search engines [Needle in a CyberStack - the InfoFinder] Listing of a variety of search engines and databases. URL: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4448/search.html

24.	¬Lycos top 50 searches [Lycos] The 50 most popular Lycos user searches for the current week. URL: http://50.lycos.com/

25.	¬Search IQ Yet another in a large collection of sites on search engines, Search IQ is notable for two features. First, its collection of search engine reviews is rather extensive, covering far more than the usual dozen or so listed at most search engine review sites. Although rankings and full reviews are offered for only 17 engines, the individual and meta-search engine listings offer at least a sentence or two on many more. URL: http://www.searchiq.com
26.	Search Engine Colossus this metasite offers links to a large number of country- or region-specific search engines. The search engines are organized by country, with a link to the service, the language(s) it uses, its point of origin, and a short description when available. URL: http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/
27.	Internets of Databases an extensive catalog of databases on the Web and quite possibly the largest collection of useful search engines available on the Internet. The site provides links to thousands of online resources including archives, libraries, research databases, newswires, catalogs, and statistical data. URL: http://www.internets.com/
28.	Twisted Logic condensing fact from the vapor of nuance. Has reverse telephone number searching. URL: http://www.twistedlogic.com/search/index.htm
29.	Inference Find Inference Corporation has developed a very fast--and very slick--meta-search engine for searching the Web; after simultaneously tapping into WebCrawler, Yahoo, Lycos, Alta Vista, InfoSeek, and Excite, Inference Find merges the results, removes redundancies, and organizes the results into handy groupings URL: http://www.infind.com/
30.	¬Fast Comprehensive and fast search engine. Has languages options and word and domain flters. URL: http://www.alltheweb.com/advsearch
31.	Search Freak Search Freak presents thirteen search engines on one page, or direct links to the same thirteen; or select a search type and a search engine will be recommended; or use the metasearch function to search all the engines at once. There are helpful tips, comparisons of features, and reviews of search results. URL: http://simplesearch.homepage.com/browse.html
32.	BigHub BigHub not only lets you query multiple search engines simultaneously, it also features a big list of specialty search areas. With stock quotes, weather and free e-mail thrown in for good measure. URL: http://www.thebighub.com
33.	Pandia Search Central Pandia Search Central aims to serve as a major search portal, pooling a number of searching tools and guides. These include a metasearch engine that indexes AltaVista, HotBot, Yahoo, Looksmart, Go Infoseek, GoTo, and WebCrawler at once and a news service URL: http://www.pandia.com
34.	METAEUREKA No graphics, ads, or anything really except the search box and your results. It also includes a very useful feature for users concerned with the "freshness" of their search returns. Clicking on the Site Info link under each result produces a small pop-up window which lists, among other things, the last time the site was modified. URL: http://www.metaeureka.com
35.	Ixquick Metasearch Branding itself "the world's most powerful metasearch engine," Ixquick also features a clean and simple interface. Ixquick indexes fourteen search engines and directories, though users can pick and choose between them if they desire. The real appeal of Ixquick, however, is its "star rating" system for reporting results. URL: http://www.ixquick.com

36.	Finding Images on the Web [Boston University Libraries] Pointers on how to search for images on the WWW. URL: http://www.bu.edu/library/training/webimages.htm
37.	Lycos RichMedia RichMedia from Lycos distinguishes itself in two ways. First is its size (over 17 million files indexed) and speed. Secondly, users can click on search returns to directly access the content (pictures, movies, streams, and sounds) instead of going through the source site first. Like other multimedia search engines. URL: http://richmedia.lycos.com
38.	StreamSearch As Internet bandwidth grows, StreamSearch may be what next-generation portals look like. A search engine that specializes in audio and video clips, in a variety of player formats. URL: http://www.StreamSearch.com

39.	FreeFind [control] [resources] Just enter your web site address in the form on this website and you'll have a search engine on your site in less than ten minutes! Everything runs on our servers so there's nothing to download or install. We even e-mail you the HTML you need to put the search box on your site! FAQ FF Links. URL: http://www.freefind.com/indexb.html
40.	oingo Billing itself "the Internet's first meaning-based search engine," oingo searches by meaning and word relationships rather than by literal text. In this way, it both avoids unrelated sites that contain exact text matches and returns sites with related meanings but no matching text. At present, the site is a demonstration of oingo for potential licensees, and it indexes only sites found in the Open Directory Project with additional hits from AltaVista. URL: http://www.oingo.com
41.	Northern Light Northern Light is a robot-driven search engine of the World_Wide Web. It has two main differences from other search engines. It dynamically organizes search results, creating folders of documents with similar subjects, sources, or types; and it contains a "special collection" of 2 million articles from over 2,900 journals, books, magazines, databases and newswires not available on any other search engine. These articles are sold for $1 to $4 each. Northern Light is especially good when looking for academic information. Pros: automated subject-group "folders" (they work well!), indexes whole websites (not just first few levels), "special collection" of non World-Wide Web articles. Cons: does not support complex Boolean searches URL: http://www.northernlight.com/
42.	Invisible Web Calling itself "the search engine of search engines," this site indexes over 10,000 databases, archives, and search engines, offering users links to targeted search sources for their queries instead of hundreds or thousands of Webpages. Users can search by keyword, perform an advanced search, or browse a list of entries organized under the "Hot List." URL: http://www.invisibleweb.com
43.	Fujo Search Engine Fujo is an agent-based search system designed to help you track new information as it appears on the Internet. Fujo also personalizes the information it finds for you by filtering it to match the topics you're most interested in. URL: http://www.fujo.com/search/home
44.	Sam Spade URL: http://samspade.org/
45.	SpeechBot This new experimental search engine from Compaq indexes over 2,500 hours of content from 20 popular American radio shows. Using its speech recognition software, Compaq creates "a time-aligned 'transcript' of the program and build[s] an index of the words spoken during the program. URL: http://speechbot.research.compaq.com
46.	Electric Monk The Electric Monk finds answers to real English questions. URL: http://www.electricmonk.com/
47.	Search Engine Watch Contains information on the latest progress in search engines. URL: http://www.searchenginewatch.com/
48.	Goto Web search matches are sorted by how much the links owner is willing to pay Goto.com for a click-though. URL: http://www.goto.com
49.	Human-Assisted Searches "QuickFindIt" adds a human element to the search engine scene. The free service comes with a capability to conduct simultaneous searches, but then also allows you to chat with a Live Guide. Registration required. URL: http://www.quickfindit.com
50.	WWW Search Engine Software The ht://Dig system is a complete world wide web indexing and searching system for a domain or intranet. URL: http://www.htdig.org/
51.	WiseNut Incorporated in August 1999, WISEnut is poised to launch the most advanced and innovative search and retrieval technology for the Internet. WISEnut has developed new technology that can gather and index information faster and update it more frequently than any other service on the Web today. URL: http://www.WISEnut.com
52.	xrefer Meta-searches and cross-references sixteen texts from Bloomsbury, Macmillan, Oxford UP, and Penguin. These include encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations, and a number of subject-specific titles. URL: http://www.xrefer.com
53.	Excite Precision Search Hot on the heels of AltaVista's Raging Search (see the May 5, 2000 Scout Report) comes another returned and (somewhat) slimmed-down search engine that focuses on relevant results. URL: http://www.excite.com/search
54.	FindSame search for documents using large pieces of text rather than keywords. FindSame treats your search query as an entire document and returns a list of "documents that contain any fragment of that document that is longer than a certain length." URL: http://www.findsame.com/

55.	Cora: Computer Science Research Paper Search Engine [.ps] Created by Just Research, an applied research lab in Pittsburgh, PA, this site will find ready use among computer science students and professionals. Using Cora, visitors can conduct keyword searches over the partial text of some 50,000 Postscript-formatted computer science research papers. URL: http://cora.whizbang.com
56.	Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Based at Virginia Tech, one of the first universities to require students to develop and submit electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), the NDLTD works internationally to make student research more available to scholars, reduce the cost of submitting and maintaining manuscripts, and advance digital library technology more generally. URL: http://www.ndltd.org/
57.	search PDFs Now there's a way to search through more than a million summaries of Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) files on the Web. Your search results will allow you to see the summaries before deciding to view the original Adobe PDF. URL: http://searchpdf.adobe.com/
58.	PrePRINT Network -- DOE This new site from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information is intended as a complementary service to their scientific and technical journal abstract database, PubSCIENCE (reviewed in the October 29, 1999 Scout Report). PrePRINT Network serves as a searchable gateway to preprint servers that deal with scientific and technical disciplines such as physics, materials, and chemistry, "as well as portions of biology, environmental sciences and nuclear medicine." URL: http://www.osti.gov/preprint
59.	¬Social Science Search Engine [UK site] Thousands of online resources, browseable or searchable by subject area. Within each section, resources are organized by subcategory and listed by type. Each section supplies information on its editor and a link to an extremely useful Subject Guide to conducting online research in that field. Visitors can find additional, uncataloged resources, using the Social Science Search Engine, which indexes a database of over 50,000 Social Science Webpages. URL: http://scout18.cs.wisc.edu/sosig_mirror
60.	Mathematical Physics Preprint Archive The University of Texas-Austin's Mathematics Department houses this excellent Mathematical Physics Preprint Archive. With abstracts and papers organized by year (1991-present), this free service lets users "deposit papers in an electronic format over the Web or by email." URL: http://rene.ma.utexas.edu:80/mp_arc
61.	TheseNet Sponsored by ABES (Agence Bibliographique de l'Enseignement Superieur), a government agency that oversees libraries in higher education, the TheseNet database indexes dissertations written for PhDs granted in France. The database currently contains citations for dissertations since 1972 for applied and hard sciences, humanities, social sciences, and law; as well as those in health sciences since 1983; and veterinary medicine since 1990. URL: http://thesenet.abes.fr
62.	Government Periodicals Access to full-text periodicals placed online by the federal government. URL: http://198.252.9.95/home/govper.html
63.	OCLC First Search Search for articles from 29 other databases. URL: http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/FSPrefs?entityjsdetect=:javascript=true:screensize=large:sessionid=sp03sw11-53372-cgo90kmp-iedsiz:entitypagenum=1:0
64.	PSYCHINFO Search for articles in the dicipline of Psychology. URL: http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/FSPrefs?entityjsdetect=:javascript=true:screensize=large:sessionid=sp01sw11-57309-cgo926oj-j833x9:entitypagenum=1:0
65.	citeseer Search for related citations to articles. URL: http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs
66.	www.getCITED.org This site is an ambitious project to facilitate searches for book chapters, working papers, conference papers, and other types of publications and academic research not commonly indexed. The project is off to a running start with over 315,000 identities and 3,250,000 publications indexed, but the site creators are requesting the cooperation of "the entire academic community." Scholars are encouraged to register with the site (for free) and enter in the details of their publications. URL: http://www.getcited.org/mbr/PUB/Find

67.	Goolbot Linux [Google] Google Linux rates the relevance of a Webpage to a particular search query in part by examining how many other Webpages link to it URL: http://www.google.com/linux
68.	SearchMil.com Developed by Beckstrom Software, this no-nonsense search engine claims to index approximately 785,000 pages in the .mil domain. URL: http://www.searchmil.com
69.	SearchEdu.com This new search engine claims to index over 20 million pages in the .edu domain. URL: http://www.searchedu.com
70.	SearcheBooks.com MaxBot.com, creator of SearchEdu, SearchGov, and SearchMil (see the January 28, 2000 Scout Report), also offers SearcheBooks, a search engine that indexes the full text of "thousands" of online books. URL: http://www.searchebooks.com