|
Search Engines, Crawlers, Directories
Specialty
Choices
The metacrawlers listed below let you meta search in specific
subject areas. |
| Title |
Description |
| Family
Friendly Search |
Meta search service that queries major kid-friendly
search engines |
| GoFish |
Meta search service for licensed and commercially available
digital media downloads including music, movies, music videos,
ringtones, mobile games and PC games, searching over 12 million
media files |
All-In-One
Search Pages
Unlike metacrawlers, all-in-one search
pages do not send your query to many search engines at the same
time. Instead, they generally list a wide-variety of search
engines and allow you to search at your choice without having
to go directly to that search engine. |
| Title |
Description |
| Google
Versus Yahoo Tool |
See visually how results compare on Google
versus Yahoo. |
| One Page MultiSearch Engines
|
Clean interface lets you query major services from one page |
| Proteus |
Lets you easily send your search to one of
several search engines. It also has links to search engine help
pages |
| YW |
Select your search engines from the many choices
offered. The results will all appear within one page, side-by-side.
Formerly called Yes Wacked. |
Meta
Search Articles
For other articles and older reviews,
also see the Search
Engine Reviews page. |
| Title |
Description |
| Meta
Search Engines are Back |
It's been a busy year for the major meta search
engines, with a number of notable developments that have restored
their usefulness as worthy search tools. |
| Meta
Search Engines: An Introduction |
Focuses on the world of meta search engines, looking under
the hood at how they work and profiling the major players and
their offerings |
| The
Big Four Meta Search Engines |
Though there are dozens of useful meta search
engines, InfoSpace is the industry gorilla, operating the four
arguably best known and most heavily used properties. |
| The
Best and Most Popular Meta Search Engines |
Meta search engines look pretty much the same up front, but
their approach to presenting results varies widely. Here's a
list of Search Engine Watch's pick of the best and most popular
metas for searching the web |
|
A Meta Search Engine Roundup |
Completing our roundup of meta search engines,
this list focuses on services that are competent and in many
cases worthy of a look, but don't meet all of our evaluation
criteria. |
| Meta
Search Or Meta Ads? |
|
| Subject
Directories |
| Title |
Description |
| About |
Over 1 million. Generally good annotations
done by "Guides" with various levels of expertise. |
| Academic Info |
Rich selection of about 25,000 pages, selected as "college
and research level Internet resources" aimed at "at
the undergraduate level or above." Brief annotations. |
| Berkeley
|
Comparison of Subject Directories |
| Google Directory |
By Google by category |
| InfoMINE
|
Scholarly Internet Resource Collections |
| Librarian's Index |
The mission of Librarians' Index to the Internet is to provide
a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy,
librarian-selected Internet resources |
| Open Directory:
|
Largest human edited directory on the web
|
| Yahoo Directory |
Often useful, especially for popular and commercial topics |
| WWW Virtual
Library : |
Established in the Republic and Canton of
Geneva |
| Academic
and Professional Subject Directories |
| Title |
Description |
| Academic
Info |
Gateway to college and research level Internet
resources maintained by former librarian Mike Madin and a volunteer
group of subject specialists |
| The
Best Information on the Net (BIOTN) |
Collection of academic resources maintained
at St. Ambrose University in Iowa |
| BUBL Link |
UK funded project of selective resources from the University
of Strathclyde Library in Glasgow, Scotland |
| Google Scholar |
Comprehensive searches of the scholarly literature |
| INFOMINE
|
Large collection of scholarly Internet resources
collectively maintained by several libraries, including those
from the University of California |
The Internet Public Library
|
Large, selective collection from the University of Michigan |
| Librarians' Index
to the Internet |
Carefully chosen, organized, and annotated
directory maintained by a large group of librarians in California |
| Resource Discovery Network
|
Searchable interface to major meta-sites in academic disciplines,
including Business,
EEVL - Engineering, Mathematics
and Computing, Humbul
Humanities Hub,
PsiGate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway, and SOSIG
- Social Science Information Gateway. See also PINAKES,
A Subject Launchpad for another way into these sites |
| The
Scout Report Archives |
Searchable database of 10,000+ critical summaries
of Internet resources for the academic and research community
included in the Scout Reports
|
| Scirius |
For Scientific Information |
| Scout
Select Bookmarks |
Collection of meta-sites in several subject areas |
| Subject
Guides A to Z |
Extensive collection of subject pages from
the University of Delaware Library |
| The WWW Virtual Library |
Highly respected guides to many disciplines sponsored by the
W3 Consortium |
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