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An Introduction to Internet & WWW Resources


Contents:  General | Recommended Readings | Popularity Search Engines | Clustering Search Engines | Image Search Engines & Directories | Amazon.com's "Search Inside the Book" | Evaluated Directories & Portals | Invisible Web | Old Pages & Postings | Features & Updates |


General


Graphics, Images, Photographies, & Pictures Missouri State University Libraries Homepage
Evaluated Directories & Portals
Librarian's Internet Index INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections Internet Scout Project Selected Internet Resources
Meta-search Engines
Metacrawler Ask.com
Popularity Search Engines
AllTheWeb
(aka Fast Search)
Google
Archived Web Pages
Internet Archive
(aka Wayback Machine)
1996 -
Cached Links
Google
N.D.
Google Groups
Listservs, UseNet, NewsGroups
1981 -
Search Engine Features & Updates
Search Engine Showdown Features Chart Search Engine Watch Internet Search Engine Update "Choose the best search for your information need" Google Watch
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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

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