Search Engine Links
bigfoot.com
Search on e-mail. and residential addresses simultaneously. Entries are updated monthly.
Snap
www.snap.com
Merger of CNET and NBC
For those of you who occasionally want to look up a paper in journals that are not indexed in MEDLINE you will be glad to hear that
AMED, the British Library's alt. med. database, is now searchable FREE of charge at www.globalhealth2000.com
(Registration is required.) It can be combined with 4 other NIH databases and searched simultaneously.
Yahoo
www.yahoo.com
This is still one of the best. If it doesn't find your search term, it automatically enters it into AltaVista's search engine.
Goggle
www.goggle.com
Started by Stanford graduate students (like Yahoo), it is accurate because it rates every website based on the number of other sites that link to it, creating a reference check for each result in your search.
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people.yahoo.com
Search for e-mail. addresses and phone numbers. Using a mouse-click, you can send an e-mail., place a call using Net2Phone, or get a map of the area surrounding the person's address. You can locate the nearest business of your choice. Phone data is updated quarterly.
www.metacrawler.com
Metasearch sites send your query simultaneously to a number of directories and search engines and then display the combined results. Easy to use, it translates your queries into a form that each search engine can understand. After the search, it removes duplicate pages and examines the scores that the queried search engines might have provided to indicate the likelihood of each document's relevance.
www.profusion.com
Form to customize your search, with options such as selecting which of the nine supported search engines and directories to query. Form has strong support for complex Boolean searches.
www.dogpile.com
Supports Boolean searches and automatically translates queries into the proper syntax for each search engine.
www.askjeeves.com
Answers your questions with more questions. Home page prompts you to pose your query in natural language. It doesn't cull duplicates or rank the results. |
