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Search engines, directories and related resources

TOPIC GROUP: Reference
Sites for finding out stuff

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CoFIND-LTSN
http://ltsn.cofind.net
  • The definitive CoFIND for learning and teaching computer science and related disciplines

Created: Monday June 7th 2004

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Good gateway to further resources
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Google
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en
  • More remarkable stuff from Google - suggests what you might mean to type based on what others have typed.

Created: Sunday December 12th 2004

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Technorati
http://www.technorati.com/
  • Implicit collaborative filter that analyses weblogs through backlinks etc. Fascinating.

Created: Saturday October 16th 2004

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Yahoo!
http://www.yahoo.com/
  • The grand-daddy of search directories - in early 2006 it appears to offer a great many more indexed sites than even Google

Created: Tuesday January 17th 2006

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KartOO visual meta search engine
http://www.kartoo.com/
  • KartOO is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, KartOO launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps through a proprietary algorithm

Created: Tuesday January 17th 2006

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YubNub
http://yubnub.org/
  • YubNub is a social command line for the web - an enormously powerful and efficient means of searching for almost anything, once you have got past the geek-only syntax. Its commands can be extended by anyone, so it grows in strength and power the more people use it. Very cool.

Created: Monday February 19th 2007

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Toogle Image Search
http://c6.org/toogle/
  • ascii art versions of images on the web

Created: Monday April 24th 2006

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fun
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Technorati: Home
http://www.technorati.com/
  • Excellent search system for finding blogs

Created: Tuesday January 17th 2006

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rich source of information
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AltaVista
http://www.altavista.com/
  • Once great search engine, now an also-ran. Good though.

Created: Tuesday January 17th 2006

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MSN Search
http://search.msn.com/
  • Simple, powerful, and effective. Microsoft have learnt a lot from Google and bettered it in some ways.

Created: Tuesday January 17th 2006

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A9.com Home Page
http://a9.com/-/search/home.jsp?nc=1
  • Some privacy issues with this but otherwise very interesting, toolbar-driven approach to personalised searching with search of your browsing history and all sorts of clever stuff.
    A9.com remembers your information so you don’t have to. You can keep your own notes about any web page and sear...more

Created: Thursday January 13th 2005

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Froogle UK
http://www.google.co.uk/froogle
  • Google's useful price comparison system in UK form

Created: Tuesday October 12th 2004

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Google Guide
http://www.googleguide.com/
  • The definitive resource for those wanting to make best use of Google

Created: Sunday June 13th 2004

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Noodle quest
http://www.noodletools.com/noodlequest/
  • Useful help with adopting a search strategy

Created: Friday October 15th 2004

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Google Maps
http://maps.google.co.uk/
  • Maps of the UK with contextual searches - excellent

Created: Thursday April 21st 2005

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Ixquick
http://www.ixquick.com/
  • Fast and effective meta search engine (searches other search engines)

Created: Sunday September 26th 2004

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Good gateway to further resources
Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com/
  • Excellent (if inevitably incomplete) citation index with hyperlinks between cited documents

Created: Thursday November 18th 2004

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Librarians' Index to the Internet - lii.org
http://lii.org/
  • Excellent links to trustworthy resources

Created: Thursday November 18th 2004

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Soople
http://www.soople.com/index.php
  • A friendly interface to Google's more advanced options

Created: Tuesday October 12th 2004

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Scirus - for scientific information
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/
  • Science-oriented search engine. A powerful system.

Created: Saturday November 20th 2004

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