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Search Strategies

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.

 

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