Web Searching Tools

Indicates link is to a non-Glendale Community College web site.

Search Engines (computer generated collection of websites)

Alltheweb

AlltheWeb combines one of the largest and freshest indices with the most powerful search features that allow anyone to find anything faster than with any other search engine.

Altavista

AltaVista is a leading provider of search services and technology. Internet search features and capabilities: multimedia search, translation & language recognition, and specialty search.

Dogpile

A metasearch engine.

Google

Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images. In addition to full text of web pages in HTML, includes results in PDF, PostScript, Microsoft Office formats.

Mamma

Mamma.com is a metasearch engine — every time you type in a query Mamma simultaneously searches a variety of engines, directories, and deep content sites, properly formats the words and syntax for each, compiles their results in a virtual database, eliminates duplicates, and displays them in a uniform manner according to relevance.

Scirus

A search engine for Scientific Information Only

Subject Directories and Gateways (human evaluated collection of websites)

Academic Info

Educational Subject Directory, etc.

Librarians' Internet Index

Resources useful to public library users, evaluated & annotated by librarians.

Infomine

INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information. INFOMINE is librarian built. Librarians from the University of California, Wake Forest University, California State University, the University of Detroit - Mercy, and other universities and colleges have contributed to building INFOMINE.

Open Directory Project

The Open Directory Project is a large, comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors.

Web Searching Guides

• Tool Kit for the Expert Web Searcher (from Library & Information Technology Association)
• Google Help: Cheat Sheet(from Google)
• Better Googling: Things You Didn't Know Google Does (from Sree Sreenivasan, WABC-TV "Tech Guru")
• Best Search Tools Chart (from Infopeople)

Evaluating Web Resources

• Evaluating Information Found on the Internet(Johns Hopkins University)
• Evaluating Search Results
• Evaluating Web Pages worksheet
• Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools (Cornell University)
• Evaluation of Information Sources : a lengthy list of evaluation web sites from the World Wide Web Virtual Library.
• Evaluating Internet Health Information: a tutorial from the National Library of Medicine