Subject Guides Prepared by the Swain Library

General Guide | Analytical Chemistry | Biotechnology | Chemical Laboratory Safety | Crystallography | Drug Information | Inorganic Chemistry | Life Scientists | Physical Chemistry | Polymer Chemistry | Searching the Internet | Spectral Information

Internet Search Engines

Search Engines | Directories | Portals | General Info. | Links

Links

General Engines | Specialized Engines | All-In-One Search Pages | Search Engine Directories | Meta Search Engines | Invisible Web | Subject Directories | Sites About Search Engines | What’s New | Tools | Help and Tutorials | Search Engine Comparison

General Search Engines

• Google (http://www.google.com/) (Advanced Search (http://www.google.com/advanced_search)) (Help (http://www.google.com/help/))
• AllTheWeb (http://www.alltheweb.com/) (Advanced Search (http://www.alltheweb.com/advanced?t=all&c=web)) (Help (http://www.alltheweb.com/help/index))
• AltaVista (http://www.altavista.com/) (Advanced Search (http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/adv/)) (Help (http://www.altavista.com/sites/help/))

Specialized Engines: Subject Focused Resources

• Scirus (http://www.scirus.com/) (Elsevier Scientific)
• eScience (http://www.escience.org/) (Chemical Abstracts Service, used w/ SFS)
• ChemGuide (http://www.fiz-chemie.de/chemguide/) (Fiz Chemie)

All-in-One Search Pages

• Alphasearch (http://www.alphasearch.org/)
• Proteus (http://www.thrall.org/proteus.html)
• All-In-One Search Pages Directory (http://searchenginewatch.com/2156241)

Search Engine Directories

• Search Engine Colossus: International Directory of Search Engines (http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/)

Meta Search Engines

• Vivisimo (http://vivisimo.com/)
• IxQuick Metasearch (http://www.ixquick.com/)

• Search Engine Watch (http://www.searchenginewatch.com/) has additional information about Meta Search Engines

Invisible Web

• InvisibleWeb.com (http://www.invisibleweb.com/) — the search of search engines
• Direct search (http://www.freepint.com/gary/direct.htm)
• Invisible Web Gateways and Directories (http://websearch.about.com/cs/invisibleweb/)

Subject Directories

• About.com (http://www.about.com/)
• Academic Info (http://www.academicinfo.net/)
• BUBL (http://bubl.ac.uk/link/)
• Galaxy (http://www.galaxy.com/)
• InfoMine (http://infomine.ucr.edu/)
• Librarians’ Index to the Internet (http://lii.org/)
• Martindale’s “The Reference Desk” (http://www.martindalecenter.com/)
• Open Directory Project (http://dmoz.org/)
• refdesk.com (http://www.refdesk.com/)
• Scholarly Societies Project (http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/overview.html)
• Silicon Valley Web Directory (http://www.gocee.com/valley/)
• The WWW Virtual Library (http://www.vlib.org/)
• Yahoo! (http://www.yahoo.com/)

• Science and Engineering Resources (http://library.stanford.edu/collect/science/index.html)
• EEVL: The Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing (http://www.eevl.ac.uk/)
• Physics Web (http://physicsweb.org/resources/)
• SciCentral (http://www.scicentral.com/)
• Sciseek — science online (http://www.sciseek.com/)

Sites About Search Engines

• Search Engine Watch (http://www.searchenginewatch.com/)
• Search Engine Showdown (http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/)
• SearchEngines.com (http://www.searchengines.com/generalInfo.html)
• Traffick: The Guide to Portals and Search Engine Trends (http://www.traffick.com/)

What’s New?

• Free Pint (http://www.freepint.com/)
• Internet Resources Newsletter (http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/irn.html)
• The Scout Report (http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/Current/)
• SearchDay Newsletter (http://www.searchenginewatch.com/searchday/)
• Stephanie Bianchi’s Sci-Tech Newsletter (http://library.stanford.edu/depts/swain/nsflibnews/index.html)

Tools

• Bookmark Managers (http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/4520-6033_16-4207753.html)
• Google Toolbar (http://toolbar.google.com/)
• The Web Searcher’s Toolkit (http://www.trulyuseful.com/)

Help and Tutorials

• Google Guide (http://www.googleguide.com/)
• How Do Search Engines Differ From One Another? (http://www.searchengines.com/searchDiffer1.html)
• Internet Guides (UC Berkeley-Teaching Library Internet Workshops) (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/)
• Mabercom’s Internet Search Tutorial for Translators (http://www.mabercom.com/websearch/index.html)
• The Pandia Goalgetter: A Short and Easy Internet Search Tutorial (http://www.pandia.com/goalgetter/index.html)
• Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals (http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/default.htm)
• Search Engine Tutorials (http://www.searchenginewatch.com/resources/article.php/2156611)

• Copyright (http://library.stanford.edu/depts/swain/colres/coll/copyright.html)
• How to Cite Film, Video, and Online Media (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/mla.html)

• Internet Assigned Numbers Authority — Root Zone Database (http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/)