Search Strategies

Search Engines - Advanced Search screens allow more precision in your searches
Metasearch Engines - Search across multiple search tools
Subject Directories- Organized by topic and selected by people

SEARCH ENGINES

AltaVista (Advanced)	Search choosing Boolean terms, date, and.location.
Google (Advanced)	Search choosing Boolean terms, languages, region, format, date, and domain.
Google book	Search the full text of books
Google Scholar	Search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
Google U.S. Government	Search all U.S. federal, state and local government sites
HotBot	Search by choosing language, domain site, region, date, and blocking offensive sites.

METASEARCH ENGINES

Clusty	Queries several top search engines, combines the results, and clusters an ordered list based on comparative ranking.
Dogpile	Simultaneously searches Google, Yahoo! Search, Live Search, Ask.com, About, MIVA, and LookSmart.
Kartoo	Provides a graphic and interactive approach to searching.
Metacrawler	Searches the best results from Google, Yahoo! Search, MSN Search, Ask Jeeves, About, MIVA, and LookSmart.
Webcrawler	Searches the best results from Google, Yahoo! Windows Live, Ask.com, About.com,, MIVA, and LookSmart plus multimedia images, videos, etc.

SUBJECT DIRECTORIES

Ask.com	Access to Blogs, maps, weather, shopping dictionaries, conversions, etc
High School ACE	Academic home page for high school students organized by subject guides and more.
INFOMINE	Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level.
Internet Public Library	Organized by subject and provides free websites on all subtopics
Librarian's Index to the Internet	Best of the web websites organized into 14 categories and maintained by California state librarians
Yahoo.com	Popular subject directory for shopping, travel, games, sports, etc.

Still uncertain about which search engine will provide the best information for your needs? Check one of the following two charts:

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