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Search Engines and Subject Directories

Keyword Search Engines:

  • Aliweb - search by title, keyword or URL
  • Alta Vista -  very popular, searches over 140 million web pages, including message boards, refreshed monthly
  • Alta Vista Canada - the Canadian version
  • Britannica.com - searches over 100 million web pages as well as the online Encylopedia Britannica
  • Dogpile - keyword eng./directory and METASEARCH  Engine - allows simultaneous searching of many engines 
  • Excite - keyword eng./subject directory, very popular, searches over 55 million web pages, refreshed 1 - 3 weeks
  • GO.com - keyword eng./ subject directory, image searches
  • Google - ranks results by relevance and quality, searches in a choice of languages
  • Hotbot - keyword eng./subject directory, sophisticated search features with pulldown menus, searches over 110 million web pages, refreshed weekly
  • Lycos - keyword eng./subject directory, searches over 30 million web pages, refreshed 1-2 weeks
  • Northern Light -  searches over 80 web million pages, refreshed every 2 weeks, makes custom search folders, has comprehensive search features
  • theBigHub.com - keyword eng./ subject directory and METASEARCH Engine - allows simultaneous searching of many engines

Subject Directories:

  • BUBL WWW Information Server - a national information service for the higher education community
  • Canadian Information by Subject - developed by the National Library of Canada, provides links to information about Canada arranged by subject from Internet resources around the world
  • Canadiana: the Canadian Resource Page - nearly 500 links to sites of Canadian information
  • Maple Square - a privately held federally incorporated company based in Victoria, BC and reputed to be the largest Canadian directory/search engine in Canada
  • WWW Virtual Library - oldest catalogue of the web, developed by the creator of html and the web, high quality sites
  • YAHOO Search Engine - a very popular Canadian directory, developed in 1994, well-maintained

Other:

  • Ask Jeeves - searches by accepting simple questions in plain English
  • CNN Webspace Search Engine - for news/business
  • Liszt - searches over 90,000 mailing lists (bulletin boards,  newsgroups)
  • Search4Science - search engine for the sciences
  • Scholar.Google.com - search engine for scholarly articles and books available from the Internet.  You will be able to get the full text of licensed material only when using this search engine from a computer on campus.
  • Scirus - scientific Internet search engine from Elsevier.