[ Descriptions ] [ Portals and Engines ] [ Meta-Search ]

For more ways to find information on the Internet, check "Finding Things on the Internet" - http://www.rodmanlibrary.com/rpl/activities/findingthings.htm 

For descriptions of the search engines below and others, please check the following:

Web Portals & Search Engines

About.com - www.about.com

Compiled by a group of "experts" in various subject fields, this site purports to offer the best in numerous subject categories.

Altavista - www.altavista.com

Features translation utility - translate web sites or other text from or into English from various European or Asian languages

Ask Jeeves - www.ask.com 

Ask a question and Jeeves will find the answer

All the Web - www.alltheweb.com 

A project to index the entire Web by 2003

Google - www.google.com 

Praised for its innovative way of indexing the hard-to-index things of the Web - databases, Acrobat PDF files, and more 

HotBot - www.hotbot.com 

Scirus - www.scirus.com/srsapp/ 

"In addition to searching more than 167 million science-specific web pages, Scirus covers 18 million full-text articles and abstracts from journal sources that include Medline, ScienceDirect, BioMed central, and preprint archives." Library Journal

Yahoo! - www.yahoo.com 

This general-purpose search index is a great place to start your quest for information. You can "drill-down" through the layers of subject headings or enter a search term or phrase.

Meta-Search Sites

Dogpile

Searches many search indexes and engines as well as sources of business information and newsgroups.

MetaCrawler

Netscape Net Search

SEARCH.COM

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