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Searching the Internet
Internet4Classrooms is a collaborative
project developed by Susan Brooks and Bill
Byles in an effort to help classroom teachers use technology
effectively.
The links and text below have
been copied from the
Internet4Classrooms website: http://internet4classrooms.com/search.htm#other
Vivisimo
-Try this one first.
AltaVista allows searches for documents in a specific
language and provides a topical index (they call it a zone)
of the topics, Travel, Health, and Multimedia.
Big Hub offers
megasearch capability (employing several search engines
simultaneously) as well as specialty searches for topics
like education, science, health, and others.
Ditto - The premier
visual search engine. Searching for an image, you will
probably find it here.
Dogpile
searches by accessing several search engines. Several pull
down menus allow you to customize your searches. There are
also links to popular services such as 800-Florals,
Amazon.com, Hotmail and others. If you have been using the
search engine MetaFind, you are now automatically routed to
Dogpile.
Esearch by
Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Excite -
changes to this search page have made it less useful.
FindSounds.com is
a search engine for finding sound effects on the Web.
Internet Public Library -
The mission of this site is to provide library services to
the Internet community, to learn and teach what librarians
have to contribute in a digital environment, to promote
librarianship and the importance of libraries, and to share
interesting ideas and techniques with other librarians.
Librarians Index to the
Internet - searchable, annotated subject directory of
more than 6,200 Internet resources selected and evaluated
by librarians for their usefulness to users of public
libraries. It's meant to be used by both librarians and
non-librarians as a reliable and efficient guide to
described and evaluated Internet resources.
Lycos provides
almost two dozen Web Guides of topics such as Education,
Kids, Space/Sci-Fi and more.
Mamma.com: The Mother of All Search Engines
- When you enter a query at the Mamma.com website, Mamma's powerful proprietary
technology simultaneously queries 10 of the major Search Engines and properly
formats the words and syntax for each source being probed. Mamma then creates a
virtual database, organizes the results into a uniform format and presents them
by relevance and source.
MetaCrawler search for a
word or a phrase
Metahoo - an AD-FREE web portal with a
search option that allows users to select an information source (web, directory,
news, jobs, auctions, MP3, pictures, weather). Check out the
Kids and Teen section!
Northern Light: In July 1999,
the Journal Nature ranked this site #1 in coverage of the Internet.
PlanetSearch has an
interesting color bar system to indicate which terms in your search are found on
a page in the results of a search. You may customize the page if you wish, and
PlanetSearch has links to telephone and Email listings.
Partners in Rhyme provides a huge
database of sounds to search.
Search
Tools for Kids - Search engines designed for use by children accompanied by
screened sites just for kids
Super Snooper returns a small number of
sites. This is apparently a Kid Safe search engine, and it has an interface that
would be appealing to children.
TekMom's favorite research
tools on the Web
Webcrawler has a
clean new look. No ads, No Banners, No Pop-Ups.
Yahoo features a topical index as
well as a search function. The topical index provides pre-defined search
results.
Zapmeta - I like this one almost as much
as I like Vivisimo, and that is saying a lot. They say that this is the beta
version, so let's see what changes happen. One thing I would caution you about.
Although this meta search engine does give a small, manageable number of
resources, the first sites listed are commercial sites. Recommendation:
Skip the Featured Sponsor Listings and go straight to the Web Site
Results section. 
All of the above links and text are accredited
to Susan Brooks and Bill Byles and are from
http://internet4classrooms.com
Check out their site for lots more information for technology and the classroom
teacher!
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