How to Search: Sifting and Evaluating
- Mining the deep Web: Search strategies that work
- Links to the Invisible Web and ways to search it.
- The Spider's Apprentice explains how search engines work and provides tips for conducting more effcient searches, at: http://www.monash.com/spidap.html
- Search Engine Showdown compares capabilities of search engines and directories, as well as providing tips for search strategies.
- Google provides two very useful tutorials for searching: Google Cheatsheet for searching and Google Search Features
- Checklist of Search Tips
- Checklist of Evaluation Tips
Subject Indices
- CEO Express: an index to business documents and more.
- Librarians' Index to the Internet
- Internet Public Library
- WWW Virtual Library
- PINAKES: A Subject Launchpad
- Google Web Directory
- Infomine
- Academic Info
- Scout Report Archives
Search Databases
Search Engines
Specialized Search Engines
- OOKO Search: a search engine for finding open source software.
- Google Specialized Searches
- Scirus: for scientific information.
- SearchEdu
- SearcheBooks
- SearchGov
- SearchMil
- Search Systems
- Colossus is an international directory of search engines.
- Lycos Picture and Sound
- Find Sounds
- Ditto.com is an image search engine.
- Yahoo People Search
- Switchboard
Meta Search Engines
- qbSearch
- All the Web All the Time
- Ask Jeeves
- Dogpile
- Langenberg
- Mamma
- MetaCrawler
- The Search Engine Guide
- MetaEureka
- IxQuick
Online Libraries
eScholarship Editions from USC
Internet Public Library offers a Ready Reference collection online, a searchable database, and reference librarians to answer individual questions.
Library of Congress contains a searchable index to sources available from the Library of Congress home page.
