Citation Standards for URLs

• American Psychological Association (APA)
• Beckleheimer, J. (1994). How do you cite URL's in a bibliography? [WWW document]

Search Engines

• Search Engine Watch discusses internet search tools, compares search engines.
• Search Engine Showdown
• Beaucoup provides 300 links to search engines and specialized index

Search Engines & Directories

• 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 for Yahoo!, lyGO.com, MSN
• Northern Light  1,100 business, health and consumer publication titles--$1 to $4 to view articles of interest.
• clusty.com 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.
• 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!**

Research on Internet Use

• Nielsen NetRatings
• Pew Internet & American Life Project
• Web browser statistics
• World Internet Statistics

 

Web Research

• Presentation: Internet Research
• Cal Poly Library on-line
• Library Resources for CIS
• ebooks on web design/development
• CIS 421 links
• Business Subjects Database
• Tutorial on doing research
• Websites by Subject Internet

Academic Research

• Links to IS research journals
• Wikipedia: Information technology
• Google Scholar
• Library site: GBA 673/674

White/Yellow Pages, URL
indexes

• whitepages.com find phone numbers & zip codes
• Whowhere points to lots of homepages but no filters for finding addresses
• Yahoo People Search

On-Line Newspapers/
Magazines

• Business 2.0
• Wired Magazine
• BBC Learning technology
• Business Week Online
• Women and Technology
• Chronicle of Higher Education Technology
• CIO.com
• Computerworld
• Economist
• eWeek
• Guardian--free archives
• InformationWeek
• InfoWorld
• Los Angeles Times
• New York Times
• Financial Times
• Science Magazine
• Scientific American
• Techweb
• Newsweek
• ZDNet