Home / Search

Home / Search / Search Engines

Home / Search / Search Engines / When you in a hurry ... (Direct Hit Technology)

New search technology (e.g. Direct Hit or clustering search engines) provides highly relevant results for any Internet search. By analyzing the activity of millions of previous Internet searchers, this search procedure determines the most relevant sites for your search request.

! Alexa. Alexa provides several unique services and is a very powerful tool of viewing and comparing web site traffic for one site to the rest of the web.

! Clusty (owned and operated by Vivísimo). This search site uses a clustering engine to organize search results into folders grouping similar items together (the top 250-500 results).

Gigablast. A powerful, new search engine that does real-time indexing. This serch engine offers a variety of features including topic generation and the ability to index multiple document formats (e.g. "type:pdf palaeobotany").

! Take Google, and Google Advanced Web Search. Results are delivered in order of importance and relevance. The heart of Google´s software is PageRank(TM), a system for ranking web pages. This fast search engine performs "and" queries by default, so it only returns those pages that include all of the search terms. You can also search by phrase with quotation marks ("like this"). Quick and precise. Excellent!

HotBot Lycos Network), and HotBot (Lycos.de). Provides most-relevant results (CNET Search Engine Shoot-Out). HotBot has incorporated Direct Hit's search engine. You will know that you have received Direct Hit results when you see the "Powered By Direct Hit" logo at the bottom of the results page.

Lycos, and Lycos.de. Direct Hit results will appear under the "Popular" heading for the majority of searches.

! Teoma. Instead of ranking results based upon the sites with the most links leading to them, Teoma analyzes the Web as it is organically organized-in naturally-occurring communities that are about or related to the same subject-to determine which sites are most relevant. Teoma is the only search technology that can locate communities on the Web within their specific subject areas, as they actually exist.

! Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: List of search engines, and Web search engine.

Home / Search / Search Engines / All in One Pages

Robin Carey, wiz.co.uk: Search Thingy. All in one page, rated top ten search engines.

! WWW.20SEARCH.COM. All in one page. 20 search boxes or so for of the most popular search engines. When you enter a search term into any search box, and click search, the search term is automatically entered into every search engine on the page.

Home / Search / Search Engines / Metasearch Engines

Ask Jeeves. Allows you to search by asking a question in natural language syntax. Includes a knowledgebase and metasearch of a couple of search engines.

Dogpile. Provides access to approximately 20 search engines in the following categories: Web metasearch, Web catalog, Usenet, FTP, Biz News, and Newscrawler. Can restrict search by geographic area.

Exploratorius. A new metasearch engine. Exploratorius purpose is to furnish the highest quality results from the best search engines rather than displaying the results of every major search engine.

! Ixquick. Fast and most comprehensive meta search engine, searches 14 engines. Results ranked by relevancy and includes information on which search engine it came from. Currently one of the few meta search tools that supports regular searches, natural language searches, and advanced boolean searches. If a page is listed in more than one search engine, Ixquick tells you which engines and how it was ranked. The result is that pages found in multiple engines are only listed once and ranked by relevancy. Excellent!

Mamma. Searches the top seven engines and directories. Results presented in groups of 10. No control over the search apparent. Relevancy is average, redundant listings included.

! MetaCrawler. Metacrawler simultaneously searches 12 of the Internet's leading search engines. Has the option to sort results by relevance, by source search engine, or by originating site. Excellent!

MetaGer (German pages). Comprehensive, with with colorful ranking system.

! Metager². Metasearch without trash. Metasearch engines do not compile databases or catalog the web. In order to improve the quality of search results they act as middle-man: Taking a user's request and passing it to several other search engines. But Metager2 is different: The websites that were found by several search engines are reloaded in order to have always up-to-date contents of each search result. This gives Metager2 the possibility to detect "trash" and do a better ranking (the best search results are shown at first).

! Pandia (P&S Koch, Oslo, Norway). Pandia is a site devoted to effective Internet searching and search engine optimization. The Pandia Metasearch Engine lets you search the Web with some of the best Web search tools on the Net in one go, including search engines and directories like Yahoo! and AltaVista. This is a good option if you are looking for information on a clearly defined topic or term. The page also includes links to other metasearch engines and search tools.

QuickFindIt. QuickFindIt is a directory of search sites organized by channels (Sports, Reference, Travel). You can query each site directly from the QuickFindIt page, which makes for a selective yet speedy approach to searching across many engines and directories.

ZapMeta. Metasearch tool, with site previews.

Home / Search / Search Engines / Search Engines sorted by Countries

! Bryan A. Strome: Search Engine Colossus. An international directory of search engines. Superbly done!

Excite
Excite Austria
Excite France
Excite Germany
Excite Italy
Excite Japan
Excite Netherlands
Excite Spain
Excite U.K.

Lycos
Europe:
Lycos Belgium
Lycos Denmark
Lycos France
Lycos Germany
Lycos Italy
Lycos Netherlands
Lycos Norway
Lycos Spain
Lycos Sweden
Lycos Switzerland
Lycos UK
Asia Pacific:
Lycos Japan
Lycos Korea
Lycos Singapore
Americas:
Lycos Estados Unidos
Lycos Argentina
Lycos Brazil
Lycos Chile
Lycos Colombia
Lycos Mexico
Lycos Peru
Lycos Venezuela

Bryan A. Strome, Canada: Search Engine Colossus. Directory of sorted search engines by country or category.

Toyo Takakuwa, Sumitomo Coal Mining Co, Tokyo: Search Engines Worldwide. A large index of search engines on the internet, sorted by countries.

YAHOO

Europe:
YAHOO Denmark
YAHOO Germany
YAHOO France
YAHOO Italy
YAHOO Norway
YAHOO Spain
YAHOO Sweden
YAHOO United Kingdom & Ireland

Pacific Rim:
YAHOO Asia
YAHOO Australia & New Zealand
YAHOO China
YAHOO Chinese
YAHOO Hong Kong
YAHOO Japan
YAHOO Korea
YAHOO Singapore
YAHOO Taiwan

Americas:
YAHOO Argentina
YAHOO Brazil
YAHOO Canada
YAHOO Mexico
YAHOO Spanish (South America)

Home / Search / Search Engines / Search for PDF Files and Online Magazine Articles

Wendy Boswell, About.com: Find PDF Files on the Web.

FindArticles (BNET, CBS Interactive Inc.). Read 3.5 million articles from over 700 publications.

Gigablast. A powerful, new search engine that does real-time indexing. This serch engine offers a variety of features including topic generation and the ability to index multiple document formats (e.g. "type:pdf palaeobotany").

Hot Neuron LLC.: MagPortal.com. This is a free web site that provides a full-text search engine for online magazine articles. You can browse through nearly 250 categories to find the most recent magazine articles and news feeds for your area of interest. Unlike general search engines which can take weeks to add a new page, new articles in MagPortal.com normally added within 1 business day of their publisher placing them on the net. Go to: Environment & Geology.

PDFoxy. Directory of free PDF ebook files.

Home / Search / Search Engines / ftp-search

FileWatcher. A common way to search for files on FTP sites is the substrings query. This means that you enter parts of the filename. These substrings have to be separated by spaces like mysql tar. Another easy way to search files with a bit more precision is using the glob search. The * has a special meaning in this kind of search.

Ftpsearchengines.com

Home / Search / Search Engines / Whois and IP Search

Allwhois.com. A listing of whois search engines for different countries. Allows you to check domain name availability in any country.

!Arin: Whois Database Search. IP address ownership. Insert the IP-number. Excellent!

BetterWhois.com. A meta search for all domain registrars to find out who owns and administers a given Internet domain.

! NameIntelligence.com: Whois Report. This is a Domain Name Research Tool that allows wild card searches on all current and deleted domains. Search for domains using multiple keywords.

STEHR Online Kommunikation: Domain-Analyse (in German).

Network Solutions, Inc.: To search by IP address, type "host 121.23.2.7"

What is my IP Address?

Home / Search / Search Engines / Picture Search

About.com: Web Clip Art. Go to: A - Z Topic List. This list identifies all topics of clip art. See also: Clip Art Subjects.

! Altavista: Search for Images.

Ditto.com. Ditto.com provides a visual mechanism to search the web using pictures instead of text. Users are directed to the originating web site on which the pictures are located.

Excite Precision Search. Search for "Photos". First type your search terms in the Search box, then select "Zoom In" to see search suggestions.

! Google Image Search BETA. One of the most comprehensive Picture Search Engines on the Web, with more than 150 million images. You also get access via the Advanced Search Page.

Lycos: Multimedia Search.

YAHOO: Picture Gallery. Search for pictures.

Home / Search / Search Engines / Other specialized Search Engines

! BASE. Created and developed by Bielefeld University Library, Germany (search technology provided by FAST Search & Transfer, Norway). This is a multi-disciplinary search engine for academically relevant web resources. Excellent!

BookRags. One of the largest student education websites. Enter any topic in the search box, and there´s a good chance to get quality information. Larger topics are discussed in depth, with resources including encyclopedia articles, critical essays, student essays, biographies, primary sources, interviews, and study guides.

! dmoz. The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web: Computers: Internet: Searching: Search Engines.

! Europeana (Europeana is a thematic network funded by the European Commission). Europeana links you to books and other texts, as well as to images, sounds and videos. More than 4.6 million digital items.

Factbites (created by Rapid Intelligence, a content technology company based in Sydney, Australia). Factbites offers users meaningful, relevant sentences from every site in the search results.

GEIN, German EnvironmentalInformation Network (in German). The GEIN search engine consolidates a wide range of information currently distributed across many different Web sites run by public institutions in Germany, such as environmental authorities, agencies and ministries at the federal levels. It thus acts as an information broker for environmental information in Germany.

! Google Scholar: Just as with Google Web Search, Google Scholar orders your search results by how relevant they are to your query, so the most useful references should appear at the top of the page. Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.

! The Internet Archive, San Francisco: Its purposes include offering permanent access to historical collections that exist in digital format. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages.

! ISI Web of Knowledge (by Thomson Reuters). ISI Web of Knowledge is a research platform, helping you quickly find, analyze, and share information in the sciences. Go to: Access ISI Web of Knowledge. Now with conference proceedings.

MuseumStuff.com (a product of Discovery Media, San Diego, California). Museumstuff.com is dedicated to creating a web based guide to museum related information. This information includes links to museum websites and virtual exhibits, educational and entertaining games and activities, and extensive learning resources concerning topics typically promoted through art, science and history museums.

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD: The Life Science Search Engine. See also here.

! NSDL Internet Scout Project (hosted by University of Wisconsin, Madison). As part of the NSDL project (National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library), the Internet Scout Project's NSDL Scout Reports offer high quality information about online resources. Go to: The Scout Report Archives. This is a searchable and browseable database to over nine years' worth of the Scout Report and subject-specific Scout Reports. A treasure chest of critical annotated and carefully selected Internet sites. See also: NSDL Scout Reports > Life Sciences.

Scirus. Responding to the need for focused, comprehensive and reliable overviews of relevant scientific information, Elsevier Science has developed the powerful Internet search tool Scirus. Scirus distinguishes itself from existing search engines by concentrating on scientific content only and by searching both Web and membership sources (see below for more details). It enables scientists, students and anyone searching for scientific information to chart and pinpoint data, locate university sites, and find reports. At this stage Scirus covers more than 60 million science related pages from the Web as well as membership sources such as ScienceDirect, MEDLINE on BioMedNet, Beilstein on ChemWeb and Neuroscion. Excellent!

! Searchenginewatch. Search Engine Watch provides tips and information about searching the web. Go to: Specialty Search Engines (by Danny Sullivan). For those times when you want to find more than just web pages and web sites, some of the "specialty search engines" below will prove useful. They'll help you search through specific types of listings in different areas.

Used-line.com. A search engine for buyers of used, refurbished and surplus test and measurement, lab and semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

U.S. Geological Survey, (a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Interior), Reston, VA: Search Engine. Topics are: "Biological Resources", "Earthquakes", "Fact Sheets", "Floods", "Jobs/Employment Opportunities", "Maps", "Minerals", "News Releases", "USGS Manual", "USGS by State", "Volcanoes", etc.

! Vadlo. Vadlo search engine caters to all branches of life sciences. It allows users to search within five categories:
Protocols (methods, techniques, assays, procedures, reagent recipes, plasmid maps, etc.),
Online Tools (calculators, servers, prediction tools, sequence alignment and manipulation tools, primer design etc.),
Seminars (powerpoint files for presentations, lectures and talks),
Databases (resources, compilations, lists etc.), and
Software (codes, scripts, algorithms, executables, downloadable programs).

! Wayback Machine, San Francisco, CA. Browse through 30 billion (!) web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. This public nonprofit Internet Archive was founded to build an "Internet library", with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Excellent!
Access also via Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt.

Web-agri.com. The agricultural search engine.

! Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: List of search engines, and Web search engine.

! wissen.de. Search in dictionaries and encyclopedias (in German). Go to: "Profisuche".

Home / Search / Search Engines / Personal Agents

Copernic, Copernic Technologies, Inc. Sainte-Foy, QC, Canada. Fundamentally, Copernic Agent (all versions) is a meta search tool, capable of sending your query to multiple engines simultaneously. It comes in three versions: Basic, Personal and Professional. With costs, but SUPER-SEARCH THE WEB is free of charge. Copernic Agent Basic is a free toolbar for Internet Explorer. The toolbar itself plugs into your browser, and consists of a search form, a list of search sources, and a clickable icon that runs your search.

Data Village: Personal Search Agent 0.8. Freeware! Personal Search Agent searches the internet for web pages, based on seach criteria that you specify. But unlike a search engine, that searches copies of pages in previously created databases, Personal Search Agent actually retrieves a page right before processing it. This approach has many advantages over traditional search engines with often out of date and incomplete results.

Karnak. Karnak helps you find and accumulate a personal library of knowledge. It compiles information from multiple internet sources and providing you a summarized, condensed, and highlighted report. Karnak regularly updates you on the status of your research by email. Guest access is completely free!

Home / Search / Search Engines / Personal Search Engines

123people.com.

Tobias Goerke, stern.de: Die Spuren der Anderen im Internet. About people search and personal data protection (in German).

MetaCrawler.

Net Detective. Find people and perform background checks.

! Net-Trace: People Search Sites. A link directory. Search sites, resources, services, and tools that allow you to search for people and personal information.

Wink - The People Search Engine. One of the world's largest people search engine.

ZabaSearch. Free USA People Search.

Home / Search / Search Engines / Search Strategies

! Warren D. Allmon Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, NY: Googling Turritella, or The Present and Future Value of the Web for Paleontological Research. Palaeontologia Electronica, Vol. 7, Issue 2. See also here (PDF file). A state of the art report of palaeontological search strategies.

Teaching Library Internet Workshops University of California, Berkeley: Finding Information on the Internet. A tutorial. See also:
Invisible or Deep Web: What it is, How to find it, and Its inherent ambiguity.

Wendy Boswell, About.com: The Invisible Web. How to find and search the invisible web. See also:
Invisible Web Directory.

Pat Ensor, American Library Association (LITA), Chicago, IL: LITA Resources & Services, Tool Kit for the Expert Web Searcher. A selective, annotated list of web search tools.

Donna Fontenot, Search Engine People, SEO Internet Marketing Toronto:
! Discover What Google Really Thinks Of Your Pages.

! Forbes.com Web Site Reviews: Magazines > Best of the Web > BOW Directory > Look It Up > Search Engines. Search engine reviews.

Tobias Goerke, stern.de: Die Spuren der Anderen im Internet. About people search and personal data protection (in German).

lookoff.com: An Overview of the Internet, Search Tactics. Look for the search engine reviews! There are specific features reviewed for each major search engine, along with a summary and opinions on strengths and weaknesses for each search engine.

Gary Price, Gary Price Research and Internet Consulting: Web Search Engines FAQS: Questions, Answers, and Issues. This article has useful advice on the features of the most commonly encountered web search engines, including Google, AllTheWeb, Altavista, MSN Search, Northern Light.

Burkhard Schröder, Germany: Recherche im Internet and Werkzeuge für die journalistische Recherche im Internet. Linklists (in German).

Schweizerisches Institut für Informationswissenschaft: Schweizer Portal für die Recherche im Internet (SPRINT). A tutorial (in German).

Search Engine Showdown: Search Engine Showdown Reviews.

! Search Engine Watch. Search Engine Submission Tips, Reviews, Ratings & Tests and Search Engine Resources. Excellent! Go to: Search Engine Reviews, and Search Engine Features For Webmasters. The search engine features chart provides a summary of important factors and features that can affect how sites are indexed and ranked.

Submit Corner: Search Engine Overview. This guide documents what search engines look for when indexing, what to avoid, and other tips to help boost your rankings.

! Die Suchfibel. All about search engines (in German).

Suite101.com (Suite101.com Media Inc. is a private Canadian company based in Vancouver). Articles related to "Search Engine Reviews".

Aaron Wall: History of Search Engines: From 1945 to Google 2007.

dmoz. The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web: Computers: Internet: Searching: Search Engines.

! Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Web search engine,
List of search engines,
Deep Web, and
Search engine optimization.

Jim World, Ultimate Bulletin Board: Search Engine Forums. Discuss the search engines and get answers. A different Forum for each search engine.

Yahoo: Computers and Internet > Internet > World Wide Web > Searching the Web.

Top of page Links for Palaeobotanists

Search in all "Links for Palaeobotanists" Pages! index sitemap advanced site search by freefind