Search the Internet

Site Map

Subject guides:

About.com (http://www.about.com/) Guides and selected sites.

Internet Public Library (http://www.ipl.org/) By the University of Michigan School of Information.

Librarian's Index to the Internet (http://lii.org/) Librarian-selected Internet sites.

LookSmart (http://search.looksmart.com/) Hand-picked sites organized into categories.

Yahoo! (http://www.yahoo.com/) Large directory of sites and search engine.

WWW Virtual Library (http://vlib.org/) The oldest catalog of the web, run by volunteers.

Search engines:

AlltheWeb (http://www.alltheweb.com) Advanced supports Boolean search.

Alta-Vista (http://www.altavista.com/) First search engine, first with multi-lingual capability and translation.

Ask Jeeves (http://www.ask.com/) User friendly, enter search in a form of a question.

Google (http://www.google.com/) Large, popular; easy to use.

HotBot (http://www.hotbot.com/) Customizable by many criteria: file type, domain, content, etc.

Lycos (http://www.lycos.com/) People oriented, mission to be most visited site.

Meta search engines:

Dogpile (http://www.dogpile.com/) Popular site to search many search engines at once. View results by relevance or by search engine. Owned by the same company, Infospace (http://www.infospaceinc.com/) as Metacrawler (http://www.metacrawler.com/) and Webcrawler (http://www.webcrawler.com/)

An eclectic collection of specialized sites:

Mapquest (http://www.mapquest.com/) Driving directions and maps.

Switchboard (http://www.switchboard.com/) Yellow pages, find a person, search by phone.

See Internet Workshops for a peek at what library staff are learning about searching the Internet.

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