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How to Choose the Best Search Engine for Your Information Needs -- from Noodletools, a librarian's guide endorsed by the A.A.S.L. |
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Amazon.com owns the Alexa Search Engine which reports site traffic statistics with its search results. This search engine helps in monitoring web sites for marketing and advertising. |
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All the Web allows users to find multi-media files as well as documents and images. Use this new search engine to find news, pictures, video and audio files. |
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Alta Vista, the giant of innovative precision search engines, has multilingual support in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean as well as in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, and Russian. |
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Ask.com offers natural language searching that allows the user to input keywords or statements of inquiry. Type your question into Jeeves's input box. This search engine displays its results within its search parameters, integrating the original U.R.L. of the retrieved web document, which makes U.R.L. citation difficult for copying and pasting. After Ask.com locates a web site, search for that web site by its title to get its U.R.L. |
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| Babelplex | Babelplex combines Google searching with translation service so you can search and retrieve documents from foreign publications written in other languages. |
Dog Pile is a powerful composite search engine that makes multiple search engines work simultaneously. Dog Pile displays your results as they appear in Google, Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves, About, FindWhat, LookSmart and many more search engines. |
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Google now powers the Excite searches. However, Excite offers personalized services. |
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| Gigablast | In addition to www searches, Gigablast seeks information from blogs, travel pages, and government sites. |
Google now owns Goto.com and has focused this search engine upon news and financial news services. |
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Google is a complex search engine that gleans information from data bases while retrieving documents, images, discussions, and news. Google also offers directory searches to find web sites through the DMOZ International Web Directory. Another feature of Google is its "I feel lucky" search that retrieves results across various formats of electronic documentation: media, web sites, news, articles, images and data. |
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"Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web." Most documents found through Google Scholar must be purchased and costs vary from $10 to $25; however, a few retrieved documents are free. |
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Look Smart searches for selected web sites and articles that have been categorized into a searchable directory. Look Smart links directly to Find Articles. |
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MSN Search searches for web sites, news, images and even for files upon your own computer. |
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Mamma combines the basic document searches for web sites, news and images with a white pages and yellow pages to access E-mail, personal web sites and telephone numbers. Advanced searching in Mamma combines meta-searches through 14 major seach engines with search statement limiters ("", +, —) for enhancing precision inretrieving results. |
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Metacrawler is a meta-search engine that returns results simultaneously from Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, About, LookSmart, Overture and FindWhat. Metacrawler displays its retrievals in one integrated list, unlike Dog Pile which categorizes retrievals by search engine. |
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Profusion is a meta search engine that allows you to create a personal search engine and profiles your searches for its personal web surfing service. |
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| Soople | Soople is a collection of search tools designed to teach strategies for using search engines to retrieve information effectively. |
Teoma is a search engine that coaches you as you seek documents. Teoma searches phrases and suggests refinements so you get more precisely the results you want. |
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Webcrawler searches for web pages, images, news, audio news, and video news. Webcrawler also offers White Pages and Yellow Pages directories. |
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Yahoo is a web directory that organizes web sites and web documents into searchable categories and sub-categories. Yahoo offers many personal services through Internet groups and organized media channels. |
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Search Engine Showdown Consult the Search Engine Showndown e-zine for the latest information on search engine developments and how to use search engines.
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