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Finding What You Need on the Internet

Quick Guides to Choosing Web Search Tools

NoodleTools http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html
How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory (Laura Cohen) http://www.internettutorials.net/choose.html

Subject Catalogs/Directories/Guides
Generated by Humans

Yahoo Directory http://dir.yahoo.com/
Open Directory Project http://dmoz.org/
   Google Directory (Open Directory Project) http://directory.google.com/
Michigan Electronic Library Pathfinders http://mel.org/SPT--BrowseResourcesMoreSubjects.php
Librarians' Index to the Internet http://lii.org/
Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/
Digital Librarian (Margaret Vail Anderson) http://www.digital-librarian.com/
WWW Subject Catalog http://vlib.org/
Infomine http://infomine.ucr.edu/
Academic Info http://www.academicinfo.us/
BUBL 5:15 http://bubl.ac.uk/link/
Pinakes: A Subject Launchpad http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html
Intute http://www.intute.ac.uk/
About.com http://about.com/
Joe Ant http://www.joeant.com/

Indexes With Content Gathered by
Computer "Spiders/Robots"

Google http://www.google.com/
Yahoo Search http://search.yahoo.com/
MSN Search http://search.msn.com/
Ask http://ask.com/
Exalead http://exalead.com/search
Hotbot http://www.hotbot.com/
GigaBlast http://gigablast.com/

Sites Which Search Multiple Indexes at One Time

WhoNu http://www.whonu.com/
Clusty http://www.clusty.com/
Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com/
MetaCrawler http://www.meetacrawler.com/
Ixquick http://ixquick.com/
Zapmeta http://www.zapmeta.com/
iBoogie http://www.iboogie.com/
ez2find http://www.ez2find.com/
Search.com http://www.search.com/
Fossick MetaSearch http://fossick.com/Search.htm
SurfWax http://www.surfwax.com/
Mamma http://www.mamma.com/
Dogpile Search Comarison Tool http://comparesearchengines.dogpile.com/
jux2 http://www.jux2.com/
Thumbshots Ranking http://ranking.thumbshots.com/
Twingine http://twingine.com/

Sites Which Point to Many Indexes

Intelways http://intelways.com/
CompletePlanet http://www.completeplanet.com/
Search Engine Guide http://www.searchengineguide.com/searchengines.html
Fossick WebSearch Alliance http://www.fossick.com/
Pandia http://www.pandia.com/
Ultimate Search Engine Links http://www.searchenginelinks.co.uk/
Searchengines.com http://www.searchengines.com/
FinderSeeker http://www.finderseeker.com/
It! http://www.itools.com/
Search Engine Colossus http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/
Hotsheet http://www.hotsheet.com/
European Search Engines, Directories and Lists http://www.netmasters.co.uk/european_search_engines/

Keeping Up-To-Date with Web Searching Sites and Tools

Search Engine Showdown (Greg Notess) http://searchengineshowdown.com/
Search Engine Watch http://searchenginewatch.com/
SearchDay http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/
Rresearch Buzz (Tara Calishain) http://www.researchbuzz.com/
Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk (Gary Price) http://www.resourceshelf.com/
About.com Guide to Web Search (Wendy Boswell) http://websearch.about.com/
Pandia Search World http://www.pandia.com/sew/
Traffick http://www.traffick.com/
Search Engine Journal http://www.searchenginejournal.com/

Build Your Own Search

Google Custom Search
Yahoo Search Builder
Gigablast Custom Topic Search
Rollyo
Swiki

Mailing Lists

http://groups.yahoo.com/
http://tile.net/lists/

News Groups / Web Forums

http://tile.net/news/
http://sunsite.unc.edu/usenet-i/search.html

Discussion Forum_Content

http://omgili.com/

http://boardtracker.com/

News Groups_Content

http://groups.google.com/

Frequently Asked Question Lists (FAQs)

http://www.faqs.org/
http://sunsite.unc.edu/usenet-i/search.html

Ask An Expert (Questions Answered by Humans)

http://www.allexperts.com/
http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/
http://www.askanexpert.com/

Software Archives (via WWW)

http://shareware.com/
http://downloads-zdnet.com/
http://www.jumbo.com/
http://nonags.com/
http://www.freewarehome.com/index.html
http://filewatcher.org/

People/Business E-Mail/Addresses/Telephone Numbers

http://zabasearch.com/
http://emailaddresssearch.com/
http://www.myfreeemailsearch.com/
http://www.zoominfo.com/
http://www.melissadata.com/Lookups/index.htm
http://www.theultimates.com/white/
http://www.argali.com/
http://people.yahoo.com/
http://www.iaf.net/
http://www.switchboard.com/
http://www.infospace.com/
http://adp.infousa.com/
http://www.anywho.com/
MESA, Meta Email Search Agent http://mesa.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/
http://www.infobel.com/teldir/  [World Telephone Directories]
http://www.escapeartist.com/global/telephone.htm [World Telephone Directories]
http://www.superpages.com/

Maps

http://www.mapquest.com/
http://mappoint.msn.com/
http://local.live.com/
http://maps.google.com/
http://maps.yahoo.com/
http://www.mapsonus.com/
http://randmcnally.com/
http://www.maporama.com/share/
http://www.mappy.com/
http://www.multimap.com/map/home.cgi?client=public&db=EU&overviewmap=EU
http://maps24.com/

News

http://topix.net/
http://www.newsvine.com/
http://www.newsdirectory.com/
http://www.nieuwsbronnen.com/newssearchportal/
http://www.inform.com/inform/inform.htm
http://www.mapsonus.com/
http://randmcnally.com/
http://www.maporama.com/share/
http://www.mappy.com/
http://www.multimap.com/map/home.cgi?client=public&db=EU&overviewmap=EU
http://maps24.com/

Net Tools

http://www.domaintools.com/
http://www.all-nettools.com/toolbox
http://www.faganfinder.com/urlinfo/
http://www.psychicwhois.com/
http://whoishostingthis.com/

Keith Stanger
Bruce T. Halle Library
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
(734)487-0020 x2136
keith@stanger.com

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