Webliography of Search Engines & Web Directories

Battig Memorial Library’s Internet Page
http://sheboygan.uwc.edu/library/Internet.htm

Here you’ll find a select list of search engines, plus links to evaluation criteria and tips to citing electronic resources.

Search Engine Guide
Search Engine Watch: http://www.searchenginewatch.com 

Search Engine Showdown: http://searchengineshowdown.com/

General and Multi-Search Engines 

Google http://www.google.com/
Yahoo! http://www.yahoo.com/
Ask Jeeves: http://ask.com/home

Dogpile: http://dogpile.com/
Metacrawler http://www.metacrawler.com

Directories (Subject & General)

Best Information on the Net http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/default.htm
BUBL LINK (British focus) http://bubl.ac.uk/link/
Infomine (Scholarly Directory) http://infomine.ucr.edu/
Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/
Librarian’s Index to the Internet (Subject Directory) http://lii.org/

Open Directory Project: http://dmoz.org/

Refdesk.com (Quick Facts) http://www.refdesk
The WWW Virtual Library: http://vlib.org

The Invisible Web
    The Invisible Web refers to information in databases and tables that are connected to the Web, but not searched by general search engines. The following page explains this concept and the tools to use to find hidden pages.

    The Invisible Web: What it is…UC Berkeley Library                    http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html
 

If you have any questions, or we can be of any assistance at all, please ask Amy Mussell, Jeff Ellair, or Karen McArdle.
General Library Phone number: 459-6625
Library Director: 459-6679
Reference Librarian: 459-4410
Interlibrary Loan: 459-6681
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                Last Updated: 2/14/05