Searches
Search Alternatives That Protect Your Privacy: DuckDuckGo | Startpage | Brave | Mojeek | SearXNG | Qwant
How Search Works - The Story – Inside Search – Google
See also: AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Individual Directories & Search Engines
Collections of Search Engines
Yellow & White Pages - Find Businesses & People
Area Codes - Postal Codes (ZIP)
Other Search Tools
Maps
Searching Tips & Techniques
Reference Materials & Literature Topics
Reverse searching
WhoIs (Domain Name System)
What is my IP Address
Windows / Desktop
FTP - GopherSpace - Telnet - News or NNTP - WAIS
Note that there is a lot of overlap in all categories. Many search tools are combinations of more than one type of search tool. Many search tools include results obtained from other search tools.
Searching Tips & Techniques
Individual Search Tools
- Internet Directories = Category Indices = Browsing Indices = Browsing Trees -- These hierarchical search systems help you look for information about a broad topic, rather than very specific information. You can search through the subcategories or you can search for a word or phrase within a category. Yahoo! Canada , Yahoo! USA , The WWW Virtual Library , WebCrawler
- Search Engines = Key-word Indices = Robots = Spiders -- The search engine finds and indexes information found on Web pages throughout the Internet. You can search for specific words and phrases found on a Web page. AltaVista, Excite, GO.com, Lycos, WebCrawler
- Both (Directory & Search Engine): Most modern search tools include both a Search Engine (with an area where you can type in your search) and an Index (with lots of categories for you to select from).
- Startpage.com - The world's most private search engine
- DuckDuckGo = DDG = Privacy, simplified.
- About.com
- AllTheWeb (Pictures, Video, MP3, etc.)
- Ask Jeeves - Ask.com
- Bing - (= Windows Live Search)
- Business.com - A special portal just for businesses. Need info on a company or an industry?Get free research on Work.com. Looking for business-to-business productsor services? Check the extensive directory, organized by industry. You'll also find industry news, travel resources, and just about anything else your business needs. Take a look!
- Canada.com - Canadian news, entertainment, television, newspapers, free email and more
- C|net's Shareware.com (Search for files)
- DMOZ - ODP - Open Directory Project
- Excite!
- GO
- Google
- My Activity - Sign in to review and manage your activity, including things you've searched for, websites you've visited, and videos you've watched.
- The advanced Google searches every student should know | eSchool News | eSchool News | 1
- Search within a specific website (site:)
Google allows you to specify that your search results must come from a given website. For example, the query [ iraq site:nytimes.com ] will return pages about Iraq but only from nytimes.com. The simpler queries [ iraq nytimes.com ] or [ iraq New York Times ] will usually be just as good, though they might return results from other sites that mention the New York Times. You can also specify a whole class of sites, for example [ iraq site:.gov ] will return results only from a .gov domain and [ iraq site:.iq ] will return results only from Iraqi sites.
- Google Custom Search Engine - Site search and more
- NSIT: Google Search
- How can I embed “Google Search” box in my web-site?
- Google - http://www.google.com/custom?q=site:domainname.com term1 term2 term3 etc.
- 10 Simple Google Search Tricks - NYTimes.com
- bunny site:pkidd.com
- define: parasympathetic
- 110 * (654/8 + 3)
- time san francisco
- 100 pounds in dollars
- dog OR "why the bunny" site:pkidd.com
- american president -trump
- "american idol" -trump
- "nobel peace prize" -trump
- gtd filetype:ppt
- Olympics 1950..1960
- 415 area code
- 10 advanced Google Search operators every pro user should know
- for an exact-match search for your phrase, place your search query inside quotes.
- OR (uppercase)
- minus (-) operator to remove specific keywords from the search results
- filetype: -
- filetype:PDF
- filetype:PPTX
- filtetype:PNG
- site:websiteurl, followed by your search term
- source:nytimes tesla
- By default, Google Search checks the page title, URL, and content body to give you relevant search results. I
- intitle: or allintitle: or inurl: or allinurl: or intext: or allintext:
- $ operator
- best phone $500 - finds the best phone under $500
- best phone $200..$500 - finds the best phone in the range $200 to $500
- @Twitter = @X? or @Facebook
- related:wikipedia.com to find websites similar to Wikipedia.
- Lycos
- People Finder - People Search, Background Checks & Phone Number Lookup
- Reverse searching
- ScienceDaily Magazine: Your Source For The Latest Research News
- Spokeo - People Search | White Pages | Reverse Phone Lookup
- WebCrawler
- whatis.com
- wiseGEEK: clear answers for common questions
- Wolfram Research: Mathematica, Technical and Scientific Software
Collections of Search Engines
- A Meta search tool sends your request to a bunch of individual search engines, which work on it simultaneously. The meta search tool collects the results and presents them to you, sometimes eliminating duplcate hits and reordering hits according to their evaluation of relevance.
- All-in-One Search Pages -- Run multiple searches at one time on different search engines.
Yellow & White Pages
Find Businesses & People
Other Search Engines
- Specialty Search Engines -- Search.com , Deja News (= http://groups.google.com/)
- Review Indices -- By reviewing WWW sites and describing and ranking the content found on the sites, these systems help steer you towards the best sites for your search. Excite , Lycos , WebCrawler
- Subject Guides = Topical Indices = Virtual Libraries -- These are sources that focus on a particular topic.
- City Guides & Geographic/Regional Search Engines -- These sites help to locate information about particular countries, cities, towns, and other geographic locations.
- Fee-based Databases
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Maps
Gopher Search Engines
- Gopher -- Gopher is an information retrieval system developed to permit easier access to local university information. It is the text-oriented url-driven predecessor of the WWW. (Binoculars = Search; Folder = Another url; Page = Document)
A menu-oriented tool used to locate online resources developed at the University of Minnesota.
The information is presented in plain text format, with no graphical images included.
Gopher protocol - Wikipedia
- Veronica search of GopherSpace
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Mothergopher at University of Minnesota (deceased)
UMM Computing Services Newsletter - http://www.mrs.umn.edu/cs/Newsletters/spring01/gopher.shtml- Gopher, Archie and veronica
FTP Search Engines
- FTP -- FTP is built into your WWW browser so that it is now quite easy to transfer files down to your computer. Anonymous FTP allows you to use "anonymous" as the userid and your own e-mail address as your password. Once you have downloaded a file, you will probably need to uncompress or uncombine the file (using a File Compression utility: WinZip, 7-zip, etc.). File Transfer Protocol can also be used to upload files from your client machine to the FTP server machine.
- Although FTP (see ftp.htm) is still very useful and popular (for uploading and downloading files), FTP search engines (Archie) are almost never used any more.
- See also ftp.htm
- Archie: a User-index of anonymous FTP
- Archie by using Telnet: Login as "archie" and don't enter anything for a password. Try the Archie commands "?" "Help" "prog searchstring" "find" "whatis searchstring". Archie.McGill.ca
- Archie.Rutgers.edu
News - NNTP - USENET
Forums - Search Engines
Telnet Search Engines
- Telnet -- Telnet allows you to run a program (such as an electronic library catalogue or pay-per-use database service) on another computer. Passwords are often required.
- You must make sure that a Telnet application has been set up in your Browser. You may be able to find Telnet, Trumptel, or WinTel already installed on your computer. If not, then you will have to download it and install it.
- Telnet is a protocol used to logon as a terminal to a remote system, such as Pegasus or LUIS. URLs (web addresses) that begin telnet:// or tn3270:// will try and start your telnet or tn3270 helper application.
- TELNET - Wikipedia
- CARL = Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (VT00 Terminal) - telnet://database.carl.org
- LOCIS (Library of Congress Information System) - telnet://locis.loc.gov
- telnet://rsl.ox.ac.uk
- SJCPL's Public Library - telnet://stjos.sjcpl.lib.in.us
WAIS (Wide Area Information Service/System)
