Searching Sources on the Web
SLIC Sources
Issue Content
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Best Search Engines According to Search Engine Watch 2002
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Honorable Mention - Meta Search Engines:
Ez2www
http://www.ez2www.com/
This engine received the best meta search award from Pandia. |
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Children's Search Engines
Many of the so-called search engines for children are really directories of handpicked sites that have been categorized under useful headings for students, young and old alike. It is not uncommon for these search engine sites for children disappear because of lack of funding. SuperSnooper and Searchopolis are examples of such demise. Others, which were once free, like StudyWeb, now require payment for use. At press time, these children's search sites were still available:
Danny Sullivan's article on children's search engines in Search Engine Watch, Jan 25, 2002. (http://searchenginewatch.com/links/article.php/2156191) provides a good review of children's search engines available at that time
Specialty Search Engines
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History and Politics Out Loud
http://www.hpol.org/
Search for specific items or browse the contents for speeches or relevant telephone conversations of important political or historical events and personalities of the 20th century |
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Scirus
http://www.scirus.com/
A search engine that searches only for science content. Searches can be limited to only the Web or only journal sources or both |
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Wayback Machine
Search the Web the way it used to be. Contains an archive of more than 30 billion Web pages from 1996 to just a few months ago |
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Best Information on the Web about Searching the Web - According to Pandia (http://www.pandia.com/)
Search Engine Watch
http://searchenginewatch.com/
According to Pandia it is the best site "devoted to search engines and searching on the Net" Search Engine Showdown by Greg Notess is also highly recommended |
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Search Engine Book that recently made the
New York Times Best Seller List:
Google Hacks by Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest, February 2003, Series:
Hacks, 0-596-00447-8, Order Number: 4478 352 pages, $24.95 US, $38.95 CA, - £17.50 UK |
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Tiny URL.com
Are you sick of posting a URL in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? Then you've come to the right place. By entering in a URL in the text field below, we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires. - A highly recommended and very useful site |
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Google Tools
Google Labs: Google's Technology Playground
Google is trying new things all the time, and unlike most other search engines, Google lets you look at some of their projects. Google Labs is the showcase for their favourites. Here are some of ours:
Google Viewer
http://labs.google.com/gviewer.html
Sit back. Don't touch the mouse and view your search results.
Google Glossary
http://www.googleguide.com/glossary.html
Find definitions for words, phrases, and acronyms.
Google Sets
http://labs.google.com/sets
This is a great way to find topics and information for projects For example, type invertebrates, mollusca, porifera, arachnid in the set spaces and click on either Large Set or Small Set to locate more.
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Seven Search Tips for Locating Useful Science Sites on the WWW
by Holly Gunn
Sackville High School,
Halifax Regional School Board
Search Tip 1
Finding Java Applets using AlltheWeb Advanced
http://www.alltheweb.com/advanced
Example:
1) Motion must be in the title
2) Check Java applets in MediaTypes
3) Domain Filters – Type .edu
Search Tip 2
Finding Web sites produced with Flash with AlltheWeb Advanced
http://www.alltheweb.com/advanced
Example:
1) Search for all the words: Periodic table
2) Flash must be in the URL
3) Check Macromedia Flash (.swf) under File Format
Search Tip 3
Finding Special File Types
Locating PowerPoint Presentations with Google
http://www.google.ca
Examples:
Locating PDF Documents with Google
Example:
1) intitle:oceanography filetype:pdf site:ca
Oceanography must be in the title; results must be pdf documents; and they must come from a Canadian site. Canadian universities end with .ca. You can do similar searches using the Advanced Search screen where the commands are coded into the Interface (http://www.google.ca/advanced_search?hl=en)
Search Tip 4
Searching a site with Google.
http://www. google.ca
Sometimes it is useful to use Google to search a particular Web site. Here are examples of how to do that.
Examples:
1) "sound waves" site: http://www.physlink.com
This searches the physlink.com for any mention of the phrase sound waves.
2) chemistry site:www.sciam.com
This searches the Scientific American site for the word chemistry.
Search Tip 5
Try a highly-recommended, metasearch engine that uses clustering.
Vivisimo - http://vivisimo.com/
Examples:
1) physics "java applets"
2) chemistry "java applets"
3) geology "java applets"
Search Tip 6
Link Frequently-Used Sites.
Instead of searching, it is often useful to have useful sites such as these linked on the school's web site:
