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Introduction
to the Internet
Dictionaries
of Internet Terms
Glossary
of Internet Terms
http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html
A dictionary which includes terms related to web searching
as well as the other aspects of the Internet.
Search
Engine Glossary
http://www.clickz.com/3631600
A very basic glossary of the most common terms associated
with search engines. Links to other search engine
dictionaries are at the bottom of the page on this
web site.
Search
Engine Terms
http://www.cadenza.org/search_engine_terms/
A non-techie dictionary of a wide variety of terms
related to web searching, not just search engines.
Webopedia
http://webopedia.com
A dictionary of terms related to all aspects of computers,
including the Internet.
Whatis.com
http://whatis.techtarget.com
A comprehensive dictionary of terms related to information
technology, including all aspects of the Internet.
Getting
Started on the Internet
How
the Internet Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/category-internet.htm
A fun site with lots of non-techie information about
all aspects of the Internet, not just web search engines.
Information
Found and Not Found on the Internet
http://www.ipl.org/teen/aplus/infoweb.htm
A good overview of what is found and not found on
the web, and why.
Wiredguide
http://www.wiredguide.com
A site for computer users with links to instruction
on using computers, e-mail, the Internet and more.
Written for the non-techie, it's a helpful site.
List
of Web Browsers
http://browsers.evolt.org/
A list of web browsers to use for searching the web,
many of which are new to the general public.
General Information
about Search Engines
Search
Engine Watch
http://www.searchenginewatch.com
This is the best overall site to educate yourself
about search engines. This site has a lot of information,
including links to search engines, tutorials and much
more!
How
Internet Search Engines Work
http://www.howstuffworks.com/search-engine1.htm
A non-techie explanation of how search engines work,
with illustrations to show the process search engines
use to build their indexes.
Search
Engine Sizes
http://searchenginewatch.com/2156481
Current information about how big those search engines
REALLY are, not just what the producers of the search
engines claim. Graphs are provided to illustrate the
difference in sizes between the major search engines..
Major
Search Engines Descriptions
http://searchenginewatch.com/2156221
The best site for concise explanations of the most
popular major general search engines available.
Search
Engine Reviews Chart
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/features/
reports/reviewchart.html
Links to articles about what's new with search engines.
Search
Engine Showdown
http://searchengineshowdown.com/
Information about search engines from an academic
librarian, with additional information on strategies
for searching the web.
Web
Search Strategies
http://www.learnwebskills.com/search/
Strategies for developing a search for use on search
engines and search directories.
Internet
Search Strategies via Search Engine Showdown
http://searchengineshowdown.com/strat/
Examples of strategies for finding information on
the web.
Blind Search
http://blindsearch.fejus.com/
Allows you to compare the search results from Google, Bing and Yahoo.
Search Directories
(What
is this?)
General Search Directories
Open Directory
http://dmoz.org
The largest general search directory available. A
library staff favorite!
Looksmart
http://www.looksmart.com
One of the larger general search directories available.
A library staff favorite!
Yahoo
http://www.yahoo.com
The smallest general search directory on the web,
but it remains the best known.
Reviewed Search Directories
These search directories are not as large as the
general search directories listed above, but the sites
included are selected by humans and search results
from these directories include annotations describing
each search result. These are real time-savers for
web searching. These are all favorites of the librarians
on our staff.
Best
Information on the Net
http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/
From St. Ambrose University, a wonderful directory
of web sites useful for students and faculty doing
academic research.
Digital
Librarian
http://www.digital-librarian.com
Maintained by a librarian, this is a huge directory
of quality web sites.
Internet
Public Library
http://www.ipl.org
Maintained by graduate students and faculty from the
School of Library and Information Studies at the University
of Michigan. There is lots of helpful information
about quality web sites here. Click on "Reference"
to enter their search directory.
Internet
Scout Project
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/index.html
Not strictly a search directory, this well-respected
site provides information about current and archived
web sites reviewed in the editors' online weekly Scout
Report. The searchable directory is the "Scout
Report Archives".
Librarians'
Index to the Internet
http://lii.org
A well organized search directory, with excellent
annotations describing web sites listed in the directory.
Perhaps the best-organized reviewed search directory
available, maintained by librarians.
Refdesk.com
http://www.refdesk.com
A great search directory with links to web sites for
popular and often-requested facts.
Additional sites listed on our Internet
Reference Sources page.
Search Engines
(What
is this?)
General Search Engines
Alta
Vista
http://www.altavista.com
This general search engine is not as up-to-date
as some others, but it has advanced search options.
Ask
Jeeves
http://www.ask.com
A popular search engine that allows you to enter
your search as a question and it attempts to find
search results based on the unique words in your
question. This search engine has a higher rate of
returning irrelevant search results than most others.
All
The Web (a.k.a. FAST)
http://www.alltheweb.com
This general search engine offers good advanced
search options to narrow searches and increase relevancy
in search results. It also provides searching for
images and audio/visual files not normally available
on general search engines. A library staff favorite!
Bing
http://www.bing.com
A new search engine from MSN.
Google
http://www.google.com
The largest and best general search engine available.
It has advanced search options and allows searching
for image and audio/visual files not normally available
on general search engines. It also has it's own
search directory. A library staff favorite!
iLOR
http://www.ilor.com
This general search engine has some unique features
which allow the searcher to view individual web
sites from their search results without losing their
search result list, create a personal list from
search results which may be e-mailed to the searcher
and other fun things. It's powered by Google so
it uses their index of web sites. A library staff
favorite!
WebBrain
http://www.webbrain.com/app/
A visual search engine which uses mapping technology
to show relationships between categories of web
sites.
Subject Specialized
Search Engines
These search engines only index web sites for a designated
subject area. If you are searching in these areas,
your search results may be more relevant than using
a general search engine.
Legal
Search Engines via Search Engine Watch
http://searchenginewatch.com/2156201
Medical
Search Engines via Search Engine Watch
http://searchenginewatch.com/2156231
Science
Search Engines via Search Engine Watch
http://searchenginewatch.com/3623999
Additional
Subject Search Engines via Search Engine Watch
http://searchenginewatch.com/links/
White Pages Search
Engines
These search tools can help you find street and
e-mail addresses for individuals and businesses. Be
aware that these sites do not use Bell telephone directories,
so information is irregularly updated in their files.
Yahoo
People Search
http://people.yahoo.com
Switchboard
http://www.switchboard.com
Meta
Search Engines (What
is this?)
These are handy for doing initial searches, but
you may have better luck using the individual search
engines themselves. Be sure to look at the "Help"
or "About" sections to find which search
engines are covered in each of these.
Dogpile
http://www.dogpile.com
Ixquick
http://www.ixquick.com
Vivisimo
http://www.vivisimo.com
Multimedia
Search Engines
Since most general search engines only provide
web sites which have text on their pages, if you are
looking for image, video or audio files you should
use a targeted search engine for multimedia files.
These general search engines also index image,
video, and audio files.
Alta
Vista
http://www.altavista.com
AlltheWeb
(a.k.a. FAST)
http://www.alltheweb.com
Lycos
http://multimedia.lycos.com
These search engines index images only.
Ditto
http://ditto.com/
Google
Images
http://images.google.com
Search
Engine Watch Multimedia Search Engines
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/
links/article.php/2156251
Invisible
Web (What
is this?)
Direct
Search
http://www.freepint.com/gary/direct.htm
Maintained by librarian Gary Price, a librarian and
a recognized expert on the web, this is the best resource
for identifying hard-to-find resources on the web
not generally accessible via search engines.
Invisible
Web Directory
http://www.invisible-web.net/
A directory of invisible web sites used by Gary Price
and Chris Sherman in their book The Invisible Web:
Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't
See.
Listserv
Directories
Directory
of Scholarly & Professional E-Conferences
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/kovacs/kovacs.html
A directory of listservs available for scholars and
professional to use to communicate with individual
with other similar research interests.
TILE.NET/LISTS:
The Reference to Internet Discussion & Information
Lists
http://tile.net/lists/
A directory of listservs which includes those with
more consumer-oriented interest areas.
Evaluating
Web Sites
These are guides to criteria to help evaluate the
quality of web sites. Some provide tutorials or exercises
that are self-paced. All of these guides are from higher
education web sites, primarily in the United States
and the United Kingdom.
Internet Detective Online Tutorial
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/
This is a fun tutorial on using the Internet for college/university level research.
Thinking
Critically about World Wide Web Resources
http://www2.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/11605_12337.cfm
Produced by a librarian at UCLA, this site lists many
topics to think about when evaluating web sites. Users
are given guidance in evaluating the content, the
source, and the structure of a web resource.
Thinking
Critically about Discipline-Based World Wide Web Resources
[doc] http://www.wartburg.edu/library/infolit/Handouts/ThinkCriticallyaboutWWW.doc
A good companion to the "Thinking Critically about
World Wide Web Resources" site which focuses on applying
criteria to subject areas.
Hoax?
Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!
http://www2.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/11605_12006.cfm
A fun tutorial for assessing the accuracy and biases
of web sites.
The
Good, the Bad and the Ugly, or Why It's a Good Idea
to Evaluate Web Sources
http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html
This site has excellent examples of bias in web sites.
It presents four very different sites in a variety
of topics (cigarette smoking, AIDs, immigration, drugs) and
gives the user criteria for evaluating each site.
Designing
a Web Site
These are web sites with information about creating
web pages and web sites.
Locating Public
Domain Images
http://www.rockhurst.edu/services_and_resources/library/
internet/pubdomai.html
Links to web sites where you can find images which
may be free to use on a web site.
Tips on Designing
a Web Site
http://www.rockhurst.edu/services_and_resources/library/
internet/website.html
Tips on designing a web site from the Rockhurst University
Greenlease Library documaster.
Web
Design Tips
http://www.colin.mackenzie.org/webdesign
Good information about designing a web site from a
webmaster.
Yale
C/AIM Web Style Guide
http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual
A nice guide to web design from the folks at Yale
University Center for Advanced Instructional Media.
Yahoo
Web Page Design and Layout Directory
http://dir.yahoo.com/arts/design_arts/graphic_design/
web_page_design_and_layout
Links to popular web design web sites.
Download
Software Applications
These sites identify software applications that can
be downloaded for free or for modest fees.
Tucows
http://www.tucows.com
Strouds
http://cws.internet.com
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