Surf the web

Sunday, August 2, 2009

> Search Engines & Directory Services

Google - GO - top quality search service with rankings based on site significance. Google's relevancy paradigms have significantly improved the precision & reliability of searching the net.

Yahoo
- GO - best quality hand crafted search index with high relevancy.

Teoma
- GO - sharp new search engine with unique relevancy categories (includes rankings based on site popularity).

Wayback Machine
- GO - Internet archive of 10 billion web pages dating from 1996 to present.

AltaVista
- GO - one of the oldest search engines on the web.


AOL
-
GO - high quality search index & US portal.

Query Server - GO - excellent meta search engine.

ZWorks
- GO - top quality meta engine.

Vivisimo - GO - cool meta search engine.

SearchIQ - GO - lists & reviews all the major search engines, indexes & tools.

Open Directory
- GO - the largest "human edited" directory on the web.

ixquick.com - GO - spiffy meta engine with quality rankings.


HotBot
- GO - large good quality search engine.

Lycos
- GO - established search service.

Netcraft - GO - find out what servers are used at any specific website.

Librarians' Resource Centre - GO - great toolbox of free databases, technical resources & knowledge management tools.


Reference.Com
- GO - search newsgroups, mailing lists & web forums.

EuroSeek - GO -
quality European search engine.

Search Engines Portal - GO - more good quality search links.


> Web Surf Tips

Berkeley Library
- GO - tutorial on how to locate information on the Internet.

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