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• Alltheweb.com offers a search engine they call Fast Search. This site has a stated intention of collecting one billion URL's in their search database. It is their intention to surpass Northern Light as the number one search engine.
• AltaVista allows you to search for documents in a specific language and provides a topical index (they call it a zone) of the topics Entertainment, Travel, Health, and Finance. (host:*.www.memphis-schools.k12.tn.us Internet)
• AOL NetFind is a search engine powered by Excite.
• Beaucoup uses over 800 specialty search engines to find things in specific categories. Some examples are; arts/graphics, software, music and much more.
• Ditto - The premier visual search engine. Searching for an image, you will probably find it here.
• Dogpile searches by accessing several search engines. Several pull down menus allow you to customize your searches. There are also links to popular services such as 800-Florals, Amazon.com, Hotmail and others. If you have been using the search engine MetaFind, you are now automatically routed to Dogpile.
• Esearch by Encyclopaedia Britannica.
• Excite - changes to this search page have made it less useful.
• FindSounds.com is a search engine for finding sound effects on the Web.
• FindSpot has links to several search engines, but the best thing about this site is the search tips for each
• Google ranks the quality of sites based on the quality of sites that link to it.
• HotBot allows you to define the search, narrow the search by time (items posted within the last...), or by domain (.com, .net, .edu...).
• Infoseek: Infoseek is now a member of the Go network and has completely changed the way their engine searches. I now get fewer results using Excite.
• Internet Public Library - The mission of this site is to provide library services to the Internet community, to learn and teach what librarians have to contribute in a digital environment, to promote librarianship and the importance of libraries, and to share interesting ideas and techniques with other librarians.
• Librarians Index to the Internet - a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 6,200 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. It's meant to be used by both librarians and non-librarians as a reliable and efficient guide to described and evaluated Internet resources.
• LookSmart is a search engine powered by AltaVista.
• Lycos provides almost two dozen Web Guides of topics such as Education, Kids, Space/Sci-Fi and more.
• Mamma.com: The Mother of All Search Engines - When you enter a query at the Mamma.com website, Mamma's powerful proprietary technology simultaneously queries 10 of the major Search Engines and properly formats the words and syntax for each source being probed. Mamma then creates a virtual database, organizes the results into a uniform format and presents them by relevance and source.
• MetaCrawler search for a word or a phrase
• MetaEureka - a simple text based meta search engine
• The Mining Company is not really a search engine, but they provide an excellent directory.
• Northern Light: In July 1999, the Journal Nature ranked this site #1 in coverage of the Internet.
• PlanetSearch has an interesting color bar system to indicate which terms in your search are found on a page in the results of a search. You may customize the page if you wish, and PlanetSearch has links to telephone and Email listings.
• Partners in Rhyme provides a huge database of sounds to search.
• QueryServer - Ten general purpose Internet search engines are queried, and the results are combined and categorized according to the options you choose.
• Raging is a simple search engine which produces results fast.
• Search.com posted by c|net and powered by Excite. Their topical index is in the form of a pull-down menu, or a listing of topics they call Specialty Searches.
• Search Tools for Kids - Search engines designed for use by children accompanied by screened sites just for kids
• Super Snooper returns a small number of sites. This is apparently a Kid Safe search engine, and it has an interface that would be appealing to children.
• TekMom's favorite research tools on the Web
• Webcrawler has a look similar to Excite, even calls its topical index Channels. No wonder, check out the bottom of their page.
• Yahoo features a topical index as well as a search function. The topical index provides pre-defined search results.

Step 2. Record the number of pages found and the name of the first two pages listed by your favorite search engine.

Step 3. During the whole group discussion, share any tips, tricks, or techniques which you use to limit the search on your favorite site.

Step 4. Look for the exact same topic at Vivisimo.com.

Step 5. Record the number of pages found and the name of the first two pages listed by Vivisimo.

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Step 6. As you evaluate the usefulness of Vivisimo, be aware of two things

1. Vivisimo limits the number of documents retrieved to a manageable number.
2. Vivisimo clusters the search result into sub folders.

Step 7. Guided practice, using Vivisimo to search for whatever you were unable to find on the Internet before today!

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