LBR 110

Week 4

 

Search Engines to Watch

(the next generation?)

 

Ask www.ask.com

 

Formerly Ask Jeeves

Includes the old Teoma and bloglines

Expand and Narrow features

Walking directions

Future women’s search engine?!

 

Kartoo www.kartoo.com

Visual Display of Results
Extra
Help

Vivisimo www.vivisimo.com

 

Preview Feature
Selection of Engines
"Clustering of Results"

See also: www.clusty.com

 

ExaLead www.exalead.com

 

European origins

ADVANCED Search on steroids!!  Proximity searching (NEAR), truncation Etc.

Related Terms

Web Page locator

 

Gigablast www.gigablast.com

 

Gigabits clustering

Freshness (claims to be quickly updated)

 

Search Crystal www.searchcrystal.com

 

Compare searches – visual map

(see also Double Trust www.doubletrust.com for Google/ Yahoo comparison)

 

Infomine http://infomine.ucr.edu/

 

Scholarly Info on the Web

Browse Directory

 

Intute www.intute.ac.uk

 

Arts & humanities academic research online

Browse subject directory

 

Ditto www.ditto.com

Visual Search Engine

Wee their copyright page.

 

 

 

Specialized Search Engines

 

Research Statistics:

 

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/ Quick Facts from the US Census Bureau

 

www.findarticles.com Search for full-text articles on-line (from BNet)

 

Literature and Humanities

 

www.ciolek.com/searchengines.html#/asiasearch Asian studies materials and search engines

 

http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/ history, archeology, linguistics, Philosophy, Classics, and French, German, English, Italian literature, hosted by Oxford University

 

Business

 

www.thomasregister.com business resources, some free, some pay

 

Jobs

 

www.indeed.com job listings aggregator