Step 1. Visit your favorite search engine and look for
any topic that you will teach in the next six weeks. Use two or three words
to describe the topic concisely. Write the topic on the sheet provided (worksheet
in .doc format | worksheet
in .pdf format). Do not use any tricks you may know to limit the
search. If you do not find your favorite in the list below, and do not know
the address, ask the presenter for assistance.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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