| Recommended Readings |
Search Engines Ready to Learn MIT Technology Review
Stephen Aquino April 24, 2001 |
"Yahoo! and the Abdication of Judgment" Laura B. Cohen. American Libraries January 2001: 60-62 |
"Spelling and Searching the Internet: An Overlooked Problem" Edward Proctor Journal of Academic Librarianship, September-October, 2002: 297-305 |
"Boolean Operators and the Naïve End-User" Edward Proctor, ONLINE, July/August, 2002: 34-38 |
"Beyond 'Cool': Analog Models for Reviewing Digital Resources" James Rettig, ONLINE Sept 1996 |
Better search results than Google? Next-generation sites help narrow Internet searches CNN Technology January 5, 2004 |
In search of the deep Web Alex Wright Salon.com March 9, 2004 |
What Google Teaches Us that Has Nothing to Do with Searching
Gary Price Searcher November/December 2003 |
Popularity Search Engines |
| Google |
Google Scholar |
About Google Scholar |
Google Watch |
Site Search Google Web Search Features |
Soople Google made simple |
Ask.com (Formerly, AskJeeves) |
Vivisimo |
AllTheWeb |
Clustering Search Engines |
| CMU trio develops Internet search tool that sorts results in helpful clusters |
Clustering Search Engines
Teacher Librarian Vol 31, No 1, Oct 2003 |
Clustering With Search Engines
Tara Calishain Law Library Resource Xchange |
Clusty (Beta) |
iBoogie |
KillerInfo |
Vivisimo |
Image Search Engines & Directories |
| Ditto.com |
Google Image Search |
Graphics, Images, Photographs & Pictures |
Amazon.com's "Search Inside the Book" |
Search Inside the Book FAQ Amazon.com |
How It Works Amazon.com |
The Best Search Idea Since Google Slate [Pro] |
Amazon Re-Ranks Intellectuals Slate [Con] |
The Great Library of Amazonia Wired December, 2003 |
Amazon's 'Search Inside the Book' LISnews.com [Collaborative Blog] |
"Search Inside the Book" - and scare an awful lot of people!
Blogcritics.org |
Amazon's New Feature a Service or a Scam? Audio file NPR |
A Librarian Says Students Have More Data Than They Know What to Do With Chronicle of Higher Education January 23, 2003 |
Evaluated Directories & Portals |
BUBL LINK / 5:15 Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas (UK) |
INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections |
Internet Scout Project |
Librarian's Internet Index |
Selected Internet Resources |
The Invisible (or Deep or Hidden) Web |
CompletePlanet 70,000+ searchable databases |
Direct Search Links to resources w/ data not easily searchable/accessible by Search Engines |
Invisible Web |
Invisible Web Directory |
Infomine Multiple Database Search |
"The Invisible Web" Chris Sherman, 06/11/99 |
The Invisible Web: Searchable Databases and Hidden Sites Chris Sherman |
What is the Invisible Web? Paul Gil |
| "The Invisible Web" |
Old Web Pages & Postings |
Internet Archive (aka Wayback Machine) 1996 - |
Cached Links Google N.D. |
Google Groups Listservs, UseNet, NewsGroups 1981 - |
Features & Updates |
| Search Engine Showdown Features Chart |
Search Engine Watch |
Internet Search Engine Update
ONLINE Greg R. Notess |
Searchengineblog.com |
Search Engine News Search Engine Guide Updated daily |
Search Engine News Pandia Search Central |