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GENERAL SEARCH ENGINES

 

Ask up

Ask's ExpertRank algorithm provides relevant search results by identifying the most authoritative sites on the Web. With Ask search technology, it's not just about who's biggest: it's about who's best. Our ExpertRank algorithm goes beyond mere link popularity (which ranks pages based on the sheer volume of links pointing to a particular page) to determine popularity among pages considered to be experts on the topic of your search. This is known as subject-specific popularity. Identifying topics (also known as "clusters"), the experts on those topics, and the popularity of millions of pages amongst those experts -- at the exact moment your search query is conducted -- requires many additional calculations that other search engines do not perform. -- Ask website

Bing up

MSN Live Search is now Bing. Below are examples of quick searches from the basic search screen. Thanks to Gary Price's "Resource Shelf" for ideas for the quick searches.

Clusty

Clusty queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking. This "metasearch" approach helps raise the best results to the top and push search engine spam to the bottom. -- Clusty website

Dogpile up -- Metasearch Engine

Dogpile searches the Internet's top search engines, including Google, Yahoo, Live Search, and Ask.

Google up  -- Google tools and advanced searching by David Wilson - UNF CIRT

"10^100 (a gigantic number) is a googol, but we liked the spelling 'Google' better. We picked the name 'Google' because our goal is to make huge quantities of information available to everyone. Also, it sounds cool and has only six letters. " -- Sergey Brin and Larry Page, company founders.

Google Scholar up

The UNF Library has an agreement with Google Scholar that lets us link to full text articles in the library's databases. Here is more information.

Google Groups up - search Usenet newsgroups

Google Groups is a service that searches for Usenet newsgroups. If you are interested in finding a newsgroup to join or would like to know what is being discussed on a certain subject, this is the place to start.

Google Government Search up

Librarians' Index to the Internet up - an Internet directory that is searchable

Live Search up

Scirus up - searches for scientific information

SciTopics up

Yahoo! Search up

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