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Petaluma, California

 

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Steven: click on one of the headings below, to view that type of search engine

General search engines

Specialized search engines

Search tools

 

 

General search engines/directories

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Alta Vista

Demonstrating the power of Digital Equipment's computer this database includes 20,000,000 links in its database and is growing as we surf. Supports Boolean Logic for AND, OR, and NOT, as well as proximity operator, NEAR; it will also support key phrase searchs by enclosing words in quotation marks.

http://altavista.digital.com

Hotbot.com

www.hotbot.com

Ask Jeeves

Start your searches with a simple question

http://www.askjeeves.com

Yahoo

Very friendly search engine/directory, which also lets you narrow the search by categories, such as sports, politics, entertainment, business, etc. Supports Boolean logic AND and OR.

http://www.yahoo.com

Welcome to the Mother of all Search Engines

This search engine has the capabilities of Internet Sleuth and Webcrawler, plus more. It will search with several of the more powerful search engines, eliminate duplicate sites and annotate. It can accept searching by phrases and can focus in to specific categories of searches.

http://www.mamma.com

WebCrawler Searching

This engine creates a strong, yet simple annotated listing of sites for any particular search, rather than every conceivable connection to your query

http://webcrawler.com/

 

Lycos search

Clean and reliable keyword search engine.

http://lycos.cs.cmu.edu/

Specialized search engines/directories

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DejaNews Research Service

Provides usenet searching; a variety of options allow you to tailor your search, including a "create a query" filter, which lets you limit your search by newsgroup, date or author.

http://www.dejanews.com/

Liszt: Searchable Directory of e-Mail Discussion Groups

Looking for an e-mail discussion group? Enter any word or phrase to search the directory of mailing lists - 55,060 listserv, listproc, majordomo and independently managed lists. Once your search produces a site or sites, Liszt will then assist you in evaluating it, often including samples from their archives.

http://www.liszt.com/

Math Forum Internet Resource Collection

The Swarthmore Math Forum has developed a distributed, universal index that can be relied on for up-to-date, comprehensive access to all of the sites and individual pages available for mathematics education.

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/~steve/

FeMiNa

The first comprehensive WWW based directory and information resource containing information for women and girls online. Uses standard word-search subject form.

http://www.femina.com/

WhoWhere? PeopleSearch

WhoWhere? is the largest worldwide directory of email addresses (so they say). Still, a very effective place to start searching out those you would like to find. You can also add your address to the listing

http://www.whowhere.com/

Alex: A catalog of electronic texts on the Internet

Alex is/was an informal research project whose purpose was to explore the possibilities creating catalogs of Internet-based electronic texts. The catalog contains roughly 2,000 entries mostly on gopher servers. This is a sophisticated search engine.

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/morgan/alex/alex-index.html

Enews: The Electronic News Stand

Hundreds of online mainstream magazines; searchable database, by topic or alphabetically; very full range of titles

http://www.enews.com/home

Education World Search Engine

Providing a search engine/directory of over 20,000 URL's for education, this is one of the most comprehensive educational data bases on the web, including subject specific site, financial aid and colleges choices.

http://www.education-world.com/

GRADES Educational Link Archive

Global Resources And Directory of Educational Sites. G.R.A.D.E.S. is designed to provide high quality, very focused searches specifically for K-12 educators. This is a part of Classroom Connect.

http://www.classroom.net/Grades/

At Hand: From Pacific Bell

Pac Bell's yellow pages on-line. A guide to over 1,000,000 California businesses.

http://athand.com/sil/athand

 

Search tools

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Sink or Swim: Internet Search Tools & Techniques

Have you been primarily using only one or two search engines. Ever wonder what there full capabilities might be? Wonder what Boolean Logic is and how to use it? Wonder if there might be a specialized engine to help you narrow your search? This article and its lessons are well worth the printing and reading. You will feel both informed and more effective.

http://oksw01.okanagan.bc.ca/libr/connect96/search.htm

The Spider's Apprentice--Tips on Searching the Web

This page is designed to help you search the Web more efficiently. How to get the most from *search engines like AltaVista, Infoseek, Excite, Webcrawler, Lycos, HotBot, Open Text and the Yahoo Directory. This is a section well worth printing out.

http://www.monash.com/spidap.html

 

Chats

Panic and Anxiety Disorders

schedule

http://www.geocities.com/spiroll2/index.html

Encourage Connection

http://www.encourageconnection.com/

Essential Chat

7-days per week @ 1 pm and 9 pm [est]

http://my.voyager.net/karlaz/

Dr.Koop.com

http://www.drkoop.com/community/chat/chatschedule-thursday.asp