Citation Standards for URLs
Beckleheimer, J. (1994). How
do you cite URL's in a
bibliography? [WWW document]. URL http://www.nrlssc.navy.mil/meta/bibliography.html
Search Engines
- ConsumerSearch review of search engines with links to other reviews
- Search Engine Watch discusses internet search tools, compares search engines.
- Search Engine Showdown
- cnet reviews of search engines
- Beaucoup provides 300 links to search engines and specialized index
Search Engines & Directories
- Alltheweb.com
- AskJeeves answers questions
- AOL NetFind
- Excite provides custom searches, natural language queries, has sort by site option.
- Google ranks value of the results based on the value of pages linked to the resulting url
- HotBot custom searches, sample queries, good for advanced searches, lots of results. First results page from Direct Hit Service
- LookSmart human-compiled directory like Yahoo
- Lycos
- Northern Light 1,100 business, health and consumer publication titles--$1 to $4 to view articles of interest.
- Vivisimo provides results clustered in categories, so you can pick the cluster that most closely matches your goals
- YAHOO - Classifies sites by broad subject area
Meta Search Engines --
- All4One searches AltaVista, Lycos, Yahoo & Excite. Shows results in 4 different frames (hard to read).
- AllOneSearch-- multiple search engines & tools within several categories (e.g., World Wide Web, General Internet, Specialized Interest, Software, People, Publications/Literature, Technical Reports, Documentation, Desk Reference).
- Dogpile lists results by search engine, so duplicates may result. Searches:The Web (Yahoo!, Lycos' A2Z, Excite Guide, GoTo.com, PlanetSearch, Thunderstone, What U Seek, Magellan, Lycos, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, Excite, AltaVista); Usenet (Reference, Dejanews, AltaVista, Dejanews' old Database); FTP (Filez, FAST FTP Search.
- Mamma applies its metasearches to 7 sits, but it combines the results and reorders them using its own relevancy ratings.
- MetaCrawler searches Infoseek, AltaVista, WebCrawler, Yahoo, Excite, and Lycos, and tells you which search engines turned up which items**
- Search.com searches categories: Web Indexes (Alta Vista, Excite, Inktomi, Lycos, WebCrawler, HotBot); Web Directories (Magellan, Yahoo, Excite Reviews); Usenet News (Alta Vista News, InReference, Excite News); Reference (Toll Free Directory); Entertainment (Internet Movie Database, Pathfinder). Gives results either integrated or separately; works in a number of different languages; customize searches from up to 100 different search engines!**
- WebCrawler searches Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, About, LookSmart, Overture, and FindWhat
Research on Internet Use
- Nielsen NetRatings
- Pew Internet & American Life Project
- Web browser statistics
- World Internet Statistics
