Internet Search
Search Engines
A
Search Engine is a computer-generated index to websites, searchable by keyword.
Directories
A Directory is a list of websites, arranged in subject categories.
Hidden Web
How to find "hidden web" resources which cannot be found by the usual
search engines.
Search Engines
A Search Engine is a
computer-generated index to websites, searchable by keyword.
Google
Google is the most popular search engine today due to its proven quality of
results. News and image search are two of its valuable extra features.
www.google.com.au
Yahoo!7
Yahoo!7 is the second major search engine, which also includes a large
directory, a local search feature and its own premium content in news,
entertainment and other popular search categories.
au.yahoo.com
MSN Search
MSN Search from Microsoft is the third most popular search engine today. Includes the Encarta encyclopedia.
search.msn.com
Ask.Com
Ask.com now incorporates the popular AskJeeves and Teoma services. Includes a dictionary,
encyclopedia and other search types.
www.ask.com
Australian
Sensis
Sensis is owned by Telstra and offers a localised web search as well as the online phone directory.
www.sensis.com.au
Web Wombat
The original Australian search engine.
www.webwombat.com.au
DogPile
Dogpile returns the combined results from the Yahoo,
Google, MSN and Ask search engines.
www.dogpile.com
Jux2
Jux2 sends your query to Google, Yahoo and MSN and compares the results obtained
from each.
www.jux2.com
Vivisimo
Visisimo 'clusters' the results of your search to
provide a more useful output.
vivisimo.com
Specialist
MedHunt
Search engine for medical research and development from around the world.
www.hon.ch/MedHunt
Scirus
Search engine for science.
www.scirus.com/srsapp
Singing Fish
Comprehensive search engine for audio, video and MP3.
search.singingfish.com/sfw/home.jsp
Directories
General Directories
A Directory is a list
of websites, arranged in subject categories. A directory is a useful tool to
give an overview of some the more useful and high quality web resources for a
topic.
Google Directory
This extensive directory of websites is maintained by volunteers as part of the
Open Directory project
www.google.com/dirhp
Librarians'
Internet Index
A selective listing of web resources operated by the
Library of California.
www.lii.org
Internet Public Library
Another select list of quality resources, from the Uni
of Michigan School of Information.
www.ipl.org
Yahoo!
Directory
Yahoo is the longest established web directory although it is now better known
as a search engine and web portal.
dir.yahoo.com
Yahooligans
An abbreviated list of websites suitable for children.
www.yahooligans.com
Subject Gateways
A Subject Gateway is a
portal to information that is usually limited to a specific subject area. The
resources within the gateway are reviewed and evaluated by subject experts.
About.com
A collection of gateways, each maintained by a named subject specialist editor.
The editors also write their own articles to provide a well-rounded
introduction to each subject.
www.about.com
National
Library of Australia - Subject Gateways
A collection of Australian subject gateways. Subjects include Australian
literature and culture, science, law and public policy.
www.nla.gov.au/pathways/subject.html
Pinakes
A collection of international (mainly from
hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html
WWW Virtual Library
The original academic web directory. Each topic area is edited by a
university specialist.
vlib.org
Hidden Web
The "Hidden
Web" means Internet resources which cannot be found by the usual search
engines, because they are within a database or on a password-protected site.
Use these tools to find hidden web resources:
Magazine
& Journal Databases
This page is a guide to journal databases which are
free on the web.
Many subscription-only databases are also available through TAFE libraries, contact your local library for details.
Complete Planet
Discover over 70,000+ searchable databases and specialty search engines.
A comprehensive listing of dynamic searchable databases.
Find databases with highly relevant documents that cannot be crawled or indexed
by surface web search engines.
aip.completeplanet.com
Turbo
10
Search the Deep Net : Turbo 10 sends your query to
over 800 specialist search engines.
turbo10.com
OaIster
Search for digital resources held across hundreds of university repositories.
oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister