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Fields & File Types |
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If you want to search for... |
Choose... |
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Audio/Music |
AllTheWeb |
AltaVista |
Dogpile |
Fazzle |
FindSounds.com |
Lycos Music Downloads |
Lycos Multimedia Search |
Singingfish |
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Date last modified |
AllTheWeb Advanced Search |
AltaVista Advanced Web Search |
Exalead Advanced Search |
Google Advanced Search |
HotBot Advanced Search |
Teoma Advanced Search |
Yahoo Advanced Web Search |
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Domain/Site/URL |
AllTheWeb Advanced Search |
AltaVista Advanced Web Search |
AOL Advanced Search |
Google Advanced Search |
Lycos Advanced Search |
MSN Search Search Builder |
SearchEdu.com |
Teoma Advanced Search |
Yahoo Advanced Web Search |
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File Format |
AllTheWeb Advanced Web Search |
AltaVista Advanced Web Search |
AOL Advanced Search |
Exalead Advanced Search |
Yahoo Advanced Web Search |
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Geographic location |
Exalead Advanced Search |
HotBot Advanced Search |
Lycos Advanced Search |
MSN Search Search Builder |
Teoma Advanced Search |
Yahoo Advanced Web Search |
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Images |
AllTheWeb |
AltaVista |
The Amazing Picture Machine |
Ditto |
Dogpile |
Fazzle |
Google Image Search |
IceRocket |
Ixquick |
Mamma |
Picsearch |
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Language |
AllTheWeb Advanced Web Search |
AOL Advanced Search |
Exalead Advanced Search |
Google Language Tools |
HotBot Advanced Search |
iBoogie Advanced Web Search |
Lycos Advanced Search |
MSN Search Search Builder |
Teoma Advanced Search |
Yahoo Advanced Web Search |
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Multimedia & video |
All TheWeb |
AltaVista |
Dogpile |
Fazzle |
IceRocket |
Singingfish |
Yahoo Video Search |
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Page Title/URL |
AOL Advanced Search |
Fazzle |
Google Advanced Search |
Teoma Advanced Search |
Yahoo Advanced Web Search |
ZapMeta Advanced Web Search |
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Search logic |
|
If you want to use... |
Choose... |
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Boolean operators |
AltaVista Advanced Web Search |
AllTheWeb Advanced Search |
Dogpile |
Google [OR only] |
Ixquick |
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Full Boolean logic with parentheses
e.g., behavior and (cats
or felines) |
AlltheWeb Advanced Search |
AltaVista Advanced Web Search |
Exalead |
Ixquick |
MSN Search |
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Implied Boolean +/- |
Most search engines offer this option |
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Boolean logic using search form terminology |
Most advanced search options offer this, including:
AllTheWeb Advanced Search |
AltaVista Advanced Web Search
AOL Advanced Search |
Exalead |
Google Advanced Search |
IceRocket Advanced Search |
MSN Search Search Builder |
Teoma Advanced Search |
Yahoo Advanced Web Search |
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Proximity searching |
Exalead |
Google [by default] |
Ixquick |
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Search options |
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If you want.. |
Choose... |
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Alternative search terms |
SurfWax |
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A user fill-in search form |
Many search engines offer this, including:
AlltheWeb Advanced Web Search |
AltaVista Advanced Web Search |
AOL Search Advanced Search |
Google Advanced Search |
IceRocket Advanced Search |
Lycos Advanced Search |
MSN Search Builder |
Teoma Advanced Search |
Yahoo Advanced Web Search |
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Search for documents similar to those in existing results |
Google |
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Truncation |
Exalead |
Ixquick |
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Your search stated in plain English |
Ask Jeeves |
Brainboost |
Ixquick |
MSN Search |
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Translation of pages retrieved as search results, or any
text or Web page, to and from selected languages |
Babel Fish |
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An exact phrase within quotations |
Most search engines offer this option |
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An exact phrase from a template choice |
Many search templates offer this. For example:
AllTheWeb Advanced Search |
AltaVista Advanced Web Search |
Fazzle |
Google Advanced Search |
IceRocket Advanced Search |
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Multiple search tools searched simultaneously with duplicate
records removed |
Chubba |
Clusty |
Copernic |
Don Busca |
FastSeeks |
Fazzle |
Ixquick |
Mamma |
MetaCrawler |
Query Server |
SurfWax |
Yooci |
more... |
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Search Results |
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If you want... |
Choose... |
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Results based on linking, i.e., number of links from highly
rated Web pages |
A9 |
Alexa Web Search |
AltaVista |
Google |
Google Web Directory |
Teoma
[Many search engines use this technology as part of their
results ranking strategy] |
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Results clustered by concept and/or type of site (a
"horizontal" in addition to a single vertical list of
results) |
Accumo |
All 4 One MetaSearch |
Clusty |
Don Busca |
Exalead |
iBoogie |
Infonetware |
metaEUREEKA |
Kartoo |
KillerInfo |
Mooter |
Teoma |
Turbo10 |
Ujiko |
Vivisimo |
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Option to search on related topics |
AllTheWeb |
Dogpile |
Factbites |
Teoma |
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Clustering of results into one hit per site with the option
to see all |
AllTheWeb |
AltaVista |
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Results in graphical format |
Kartoo |
Mooter |
Ujiko |
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Results with thumbnail images of retrieved sites |
Don Busca |
Exalead |
IceRocket |
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Queries stored at the site and notification of new results |
Google Alert |
Karnak |
TracerLock |
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Queries stored by the search service for repeat searches |
Copernic |
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Specialty Searches |
|
If you want to search... |
Choose... |
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The Deep Web (not generally covered by search spiders) |
Complete Planet |
Google |
Search.Com |
Turbo10
[Many search engine sites offer deep Web searches. For
example, see
Ixquick and
InfoGrid] |
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Blogs |
Blogdex |
Blogdigger |
Bloglines |
BlogPulse |
Bloogz |
Clusty |
Daypop |
Feedster |
Globe of Blogs |
Google Blog Search |
IceRocket |
Popdex |
Technorati |
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Files in FTP sites (text, multimedia, software, etc.) |
FileIndexer.com |
Ftpsearchengines.com |
Oth Net |
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News (multiple sources searched simultaneously) |
AlltheWeb: News |
AltaVista - News |
FindNews.org |
Google News Alerts |
InfoGrid |
NewsNow |
NewsTrove.com |
Pandia Newsfinder |
RocketNews |
Topix.net |
The WorldNews Network |
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News (RSS feeds) |
Daypop |
Memigo |
NewsIsFree |
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RSS feeds |
2RSS.com |
Chordata |
Daypop |
Feed-Directory.com |
RSSfeeds.com |
Syndic8.com |
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Saved Web pages |
Furl |
Spurl.net |
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Site analysis |
GoLexa |
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Usenet newsgroup postings |
Google Groups |
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Reference sources (dictionaries, encyclopedias, e-mail and
address lookups, calculators, quotations, news, government
info, statistics etc.) |
Reference Collection (U Albany Libraries)
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Professionally maintained directories |
About |
Academic Info |
BUBL LINK |
INFOMINE |
Librarians' Index to the Internet |
Resource Discovery Network |
Scout Report Archives |
Virtual Learning Resources Center |
WWW Virtual Library |
more... |
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Directories maintained by volunteers |
JoeAnt |
Open Directory Project (DMOZ) |
