Subject Directories and Search Engines

 

Subject Directories | Search Engines

Subject Directories:

Academic Info: Your Gateway to Quality Internet Resources
Academic Info is a directory of Internet resources tailored to a college or advanced high school audience.
Infomine
A large collection of scholarly Internet resources collectively maintained by libraries of the University of California.
Subject Directories at the University at Albany
A useful list of subject directories, both academic and commercial sites. Passworded access to databases is not available.
Internet Public Library (IPL)
The Internet Public Library is always open! The librarians at IPL are committed to finding, evaluating, organizing, and creating quality information resources.
Librarians' Internet Index
Quality sites organized by subjects collected by librarians. 
Ready Reference Using the Internet
Links to informational sites on common research paper topics and other topics of interest to students.
Yahoo
A popular directory of web sites arranged by topic.

Search Engines:

Google
Ranks the web sites retrieved by your search based on how many other sites link them. Links from high-quality sites carry more weight in the ranking.

AllTheWeb (FAST)
Provides both comprehensive coverage of the web and outstanding relevancy. Capable of searching for news stories, pictures, video clips, MP3s and FTP files.

Yahoo
One of the web's most popular search service. Yahoo supplements its results with those from Google. If a search fails to find a match within Yahoo's own listings, then matches from Google are displayed.

MSN Search
provides a blend of human-powered directory information and crawler coverage different from any of the other top choices listed above. It's a high quality resource that provides its own unique view of the web and one worth checking.

Reference Desk
"The best source for facts on the Net." This megasearch engine allows your mind to explore the rich vastness of information found on the Internet.

Metacrawler
is a meta-search engine which searches AltaVista, Infoseek, WebCrawler, Thunderstone, Excite, Google, FindWhat, Lycos, LookSmart, GoTo, About.com, DirectHit, and RealNames.
Search Engine Watch
For those who want it all! This site on using search engines is extensive and updated regularly. Choose First Time Visit? for an overview.