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Google It: Guide to helping students search the Internet (PPT for teachers) |
The Google Game (Word doc) | Searching the Web Effectively (PPT for teachers and students--Click on the link
and SAVE the PowerPoint to your desktop prior to opening for best display results.)
Mouse-over an image for a complete description.
Alexa offers a web search and browser toolbar that learns from users and provides them with context sensitive information about sites.
Ask's ExpertRank algorithm provides relevant search results by identifying the most authoritative sites on the Web.
BookSpot.com is a free resource center that simplifies the search for the best book-related content on the Web.
CompletePlanet is the front door to Deep Web databases on the Web and to the thousands of regular search engines.
Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web
A directory search engine for teachers.
The most widely used general search engine in the world, Google has many specialized search tools including Local, Print, Images, Groups, News, Shopping, Blogs, Maps, and more.
Google Book Search
Google Images
Google Scholar
GovSpot.com is a non-partisan government information portal designed to simplify the search for the best and most relevant government information online.
iBiblio is the Internet library and digital archive containing links to online collections.
INFOMINE contains over 100,000 links (26,000 librarian created links and 75,000 plus robot/crawler created links). Substantive databases, electronic journals, guides to the Internet for most disciplines, textbooks and conference proceedings are among the many types of resources included.
The Invisible Web directory includes resources that are informative, of high quality, and contain worthy information from reliable information providers that are not visible to general-purpose search engines.
The Internet Public Library (IPL) is a public service organization and learning/teaching environment founded at the University of Michigan School of Information and hosted by Drexel University's College of Information Science & Technology.
Kartoo is a visual meta-search engine.
Librarians' Index to the Internet is a librarian selected and annotated index to the Internet.
LibrarySpot is a free resource center that simplifies the search for the best library and reference resources on the Web.
MetaCrawler uses metasearch technology to search the Internet's top search engines, including Google, Yahoo! Search, MSN Search, About, MIVA, LookSmart and more.
Quintura
Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by 12 U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.
The Search Turtle Web Directory is a human-edited website directory offering links to websites that have passed demanding submission guidelines.
A meta-search engine that helps focus searches and provides real-time page summaries.
USA.gov is the U.S. government's official web portal to all federal, state, and local government web resources and services.
GobiernoUSA.gov, información oficial en español.
WebBrain lets you search the Web visually, so you can explore a dynamic picture of related information, instead of searching through long lists of text
Yahoo!


Compiled and annotated by N. Mellendorf, Librarian. Last Update: 5/15/08