Unit 2: Search Tools
Resource Reading
| About.com Web Search Kevin Elliott | http://websearch.about.com/cs/howtosearch/ |
| Direct Search
Gary Price Guide to information on the invisible web. |
http://www.freepint.com/gary/direct.htm |
| Research
Buzz search engine updates, data managing software, and browser technology |
http://www.researchbuzz.com/ |
| Search
Day - Chris Sherman, Associate Editor free newsletter, published week days, covering search tool news, reviews, tools, tips and headlines across the web |
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/searchday/index.html |
| Search Engine Watch
Danny Sullivan publishes monthly newsletter, wealth of resources |
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/ |
| Search Engine Showdown Greg Notess | http://SearchEngineShowdown.com/ |
| Spiders Apprentice | http://www.monash.com/spidap.html |
| Web Monkey |
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/guides/ |
| ZD net | http://www.zdnet.com/ |
Tutorials
| Bare Bones 101 (U. South Carolina) |
http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/lesson1.html |
| Oingo | http://oingo.com/topic/9/9338.html |
| U. California Berkeley | http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html |
| Web Tools | http://www.thewebtools.com/tutorial/part1.htm |
Periodicals
| Online | http://www.onlineinc.com |
| Searcher | http://www.searcher.com |
| Wired | http://www.wired.com/ |
| Yahoo Life | http://www.yahoo.com |
Print Sources
Extreme Searcher's Guide to Web Search Engines: a handbook for the serious searcher.
Hock, Randolph. CyberAge Books. 2nd edition. 2001.
Understanding Search Engines: Mathematical
Modeling and Text Retrieval. Berry, Michael W. Society for
Industrial & Applied Mathematics. 1999.
For information contact jegan@nvcc.edu
Last revision August 24, 2002