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 (choose “age”)

Directory

Cuil www.cuil.com/

Claims to be the biggest

Drilldown features

Rollover definitions

Page preview

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

DoubleTrust www.doubletrust.net/

Compare Google & Yahoo Results

Identify Unique results

Intute www.intute.ac.uk

Arts & humanities academic research online

Browse subject directory

Ditto www.ditto.com

Visual Search Engine – search images

See their copyright page.

Viewzi www.viewzi.com

Results from Google

Variety of result displays

Web Screenshot: visually browse results

Specialized Search Engines

Research Statistics:

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

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

Literature and Humanities

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

Business

www.thomasregister.com company and product info, some free, some pay

Jobs

www.indeed.com job listings aggregator