Ask.com This used to be Teoma, and is a search engine known for giving good results up top as well as having some other nice features. Check it out!
Other search options:
| AlltheWeb
| Google Scholar
| Over 50 Search Engines
| Search the HC site
Another type of search engine is Answers.com
It is a free, ad-supported, reference search service, created to provide you with
instant answers on over a million topics. As opposed to standard search engines that serve
up a list of links for you to follow, Answers.com editors display quick, snapshot answers with
concise, reliable information, from over 100 authoritative
encyclopedias, dictionaries, glossaries, and atlases. At the end of the page it shows users how to cite their work from electronic sources.
If you say, "This is what I want to find, and this is what I'm working from, what are best resources in search engines for me?" This is the page to go to.
For more detailed help on using search engines:
| Google to the Max
| Search
Engine Tip Sheet
| Subject Guide Tip Sheet
Directories
Academic Directories: Librarians'
Index | Infomine | Ibiblio
General Directories:
Yahoo
| Open Directory
To find "Deep" or "Invisable" Internet "front doors" try doing a Google search with the word "database" along with your topic, try the academic directories or try these here:
Easy Searcher 2
is a nice listing of subject specific web sites.
The Infography
Professors, librarians, and other scholars recommend the best sources
of information (both print and web based )about their subjects of expertise.
Remember, you should start your info search with the great databases we have access through via the library.
If you need help to find a topic or narrow the scope of your topic, look at these tools.
Internet Search Starting Points
- More indepth information and links to help you find:
Specific Internet sites, people, information via Search Engines and via Hierarchical Guides, helpful listservs, on-line books newspapers and magazines, plus news/weather/sports and much more.
Internet Search Tips:
- Ten things your mom never told you about searching on the net
Guide to On-line Research
- Tips on WWW searching, how to find on-line reference sources, evaluating information found and how to cite sources.
Hesston College Smith Center's Top 10 "Helpful Sites"
- Hoax Busters listing of Internet hoaxes
- Truth or Fiction? another site to look at before you pass on some e-rumor or hoax
- Symantec's list of current known viruses
- Internet Search Tips: Ten things your mom never told you about searching on the net
- World Lecture Hall Examples of how professors are using WWW in their classes
- Syllabus Magazine Technology for Higher Education
- AcademicInfo.net Educational Subject Directory - Online Degree Programs - Test Preparation Resources
- Hesston's Weather info from the Weather Channel
- MennoLink's Mennonite Information Center
- Google's Advanced Search Use the power
- College and Univerisity Home Pages
- Maps, Maps and more maps