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SEARCH ENGINES

SEARCH ENGINES

  • Google
    Ranks pages by tracking links from highly-ranked pages.
  • Yahoo
    Originally just a subject directory, it now is a search engine, directory, and portal.
  • Ask.com
    New version of AskJeeves with faster search results.
  • AllTheWeb
    Quickly returns results from an extremely large database; offers multimedia and news searches.
  • A9
    Offers search results from Google. Additional features include search results from Amazon's "Search Inside the Book;" ability to save your search history for future reference.

META SEARCH ENGINES

Meta search engines combine and remove duplicate results from multiple search engines.
  • Clusty
    Search site from Vivisimo clusters results from variety of surface and deep Web sources and organizes them into clusters by topic, site or URL.
  • Dogpile
    Search over 20 search engines and retrieve results by relevance or search engine.
  • Ixquick
    Searches engines, directories, news and MP3 files; allows any type of search syntax and translates and directs your search accordingly.
  • Kartoo
    Categorizes content into relevant concepts and displays results on a graphical map; requires Flash Player (or you can use an HTML version).
  • Surfwax
    Searches against major engines or provides those who open free accounts the ability to chose from a list of hundreds. Allows results or documents to be saved for future use. .

SPECIALIZED SEARCH ENGINES

  • Google Scholar
    Search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
    *Google Scholar is freely available to anyone searching the Internet, but many of the links to full-text are not. Some of this full-text content is available to CBU users through CBU Databases.
  • OAIster [oyster] - Open Archives Initiative
    Searches a collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources.
  • Scirus
    Scirus is a comprehensive science-specific search engine. Scirus covers web sites containing scientific content. It also covers citations and abstracts from 18 million journal article records from sources such as ScienceDirect; MEDLINE; Beilstein on ChemWeb; BioMed Central and more.

 

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