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Seminole Community Library's Guide to
Better Web Searching


Internet Tutorials

Search engines are automated services which search web sites
and other online resources by word or phrase.
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 up

Single Search Engines

Google
Hotbot
Ask.Com
Yahoo.com
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.
Internet Public Library
Digital Librarian
About.com
Dewey Browse
InfoMine
RefDesk
Open Directory
Intute (No longer updated as of July 2011)
Library Spot
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
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