Taming the Wild Wild West

of the World Wide Web

Search Engine Maps

An Internet Search Strategy

Subject Directories

WWW Virtual Library
Librarian's Index to the Internet
Yahoo!
Lycos TOP 5%
Britannica Internet Guide
LookSmart
The Mining Co.

Search Engines

HotBot
AltaVista
Northern Light
Excite!
Infoseek
Lycos Home
WebCrawler

Meta-Search Engines

Cyber411
MetaCrawler
Dogpile
Inference Find!

What are Meta-Search Engines?

Selected Niche Directories and Engines

Liszt, the mailing list directory
Dejanews
Bibliomania
Search.com
One Look Dictionaries
WebSEEk: Image Catalog
Newspaper Archives
NewsBot
VCU Libraries Electronic Reference Shelf
Voice of the Shuttle (Humanities)

Government

GovBot
FedWorld
Government Information Xchange
StateSearch
Fedstats
U.S. Census Bureau Home Page

Inside the Search Engine

What's a Spider?

Search Engine Watch: News, Tips and More About Search Engines
Introduction to Search Engines (K.C. Public Library)
Forget Boolean Logic? (Sue Feldman)

Filtered Metaspy

Search Voyeur

Evaluation

Evaluate your Sources

Transfer that Learning!

Jimmy Ghaphery - Instruction and Outreach Services, May 1998 (updated 12/98)
Email: jghapher@saturn.vcu.edu

http://saturn.vcu.edu/~jghapher/vla.htm