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Contents:  General | Recommended Readings |

Resources:  Comparisons & Evaluations of Search Engines & Directories | Foreign Search Engines & Directories | Kid's Search Engines & Directories | Meta-search Engines | News Search Engines | Search Engines & Directories |

General

Commercial Mediated Databases:
Thomson Dialog Ovid (formerly BRS)
Evaluated WWW Directories:
Scout Report Archives Librarian's Index to the Internet Selected Internet Resources
Meta-search Engines:
Ask Jeeves Metacrawler
Popularity Search Engines:
Google
 
Search Engine Features Chart The Invisible/Hidden/Deep Web

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Recommended Readings

"A Human Behavior Approach to the Future of Search: IS THE SINGLE SEARCH IS DEAD?"
by Amanda Spink, School of Information Sciences & Technology, The Pennsylvania State University
"Choose the Best Search Engine for Your Information Needs"
Debbie Abilock, Nueva Library, 12/1/96
"Directories vs. search engines" "From E-Sex to E-Commerce: Web Search Changes"
by Amanda Spink, Bernard J. Jansen, Dietmar Wolfram, Tefko Saracevic
"Internet Search Engine Update"
Greg Notess, ONLINE, Bimonthly
Modeling Users' Successive Searches in Digital Environments by Amanda Spink, April 1998
"Selected results from a large study of Web searching: the Excite study"
by Amanda Spink and Jack L. Xu
"The Invisible Web", Chris Sherman, 06/11/99

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