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Seminole Community Library's Guide to
Better Web Searching


Search Engine Guides & Tutorials

Search engines are automated services which search web sites
and other online resources by word or phrase.
How to Research On the Internet - An annotated guide provided by St. Petersburg College.
Includes several  online tutorials.
Internet Online Tutorials - An annotated orientation to the internet provided by St. Petersburg College.
Basic Web Lessons from AARP
Intute Virtual Training Site - Subject Specific tutorials focusing on how to get the best results from web research in for specific topics.
Learn The Net
TILT (Texas Information Literacy Tutorial)
University of California Berkley Finding Information on the Internet Tutorial
State University of New York at Albany Internet Tutorials
Search Engine Watch search links
Search Engine Showdown
Seach Engine Guide
up Virtual Search Engines 1,000 Specialized Search Engines

Single Search Engines

AllTheWeb
Google
Hotbot
Ask.Com
Web Brain
Yahoo.com
Vivisimo
Mamma
up Beaucoup

"Meta" or Multiple Search Engines

"Meta" search engines allows for simultaneous searching on multiple search engines
DogPile
MetaCrawler
up Ixquick

General Subject Guides

Organized directories of web pages selected by human editors.
Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Internet Resources
Internet Public Library
Digital Librarian
About.com
Librarian's Internet Index
BUBL Information Service
Dewey Browse
InfoMine
RefDesk
Open Directory
Intute
up WWW Virtual Library

Special Subject Guides

Annotated and organized directories focusing on particular subject areas
The Voice of the Shuttle  The humanities, the arts, literature and philosophy
Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) The social sciences
Scirus The sciences
up Intute: Arts & Humanities Service

Guides to the Invisible Web

The "Invisible  Web" are online resources that cannot be "seen" by search engines. These include dynamic databases and pages created in formats other than HTML (hypertext mark up language).
Direct  Search
Complete Planet
Gray Literature Resources for discovering unpublished research
OAISTER
Turbo 10
up Library Spot
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