Research Tools from Karri Gordon!
Some helpful sites: www.searchcloud.net (cluster cloud format with variety of terms) www.silobreaker.com (news stories/topical issues) www.sortfix.com (graphic organizers of your topic search) www.searhme.com (uses the ipod technology with web pages) www.powerset.com ( organizes Wikipedia listings) www.technorati.com (searches blogs and an advanced search allows authority) www.carrot2.org Courtesy of Mary Ellen Bates Galaxy.einet.net www.altavista.com (accepts Boolean terms,can find specific titles—does sell to advertisers) www.dogpile.com (searches multiple search engines..allows you to select which search engines to search) www.excite.com (advanced search does not require Boolean. You can specify domain and language. www.alltheweb.com (claims to be the largest, customize by filtering) infomine.ucr.edu (great for scholarly sites—done by humans not computers) www.lycos.com (advanced search capacity allows you to find key sources faster) www.northernlight.com (Power search allows you to search by subject, source, document type and date. Use the tips section for help) www.webcrawler.com (allows you to use keywords, quotation marks around phrases and Boolean search terms.
METACRAWLERS www.metacrawler.com (oldest metacrawler—will list search engines searched) www.qbsearch.com (qb=quick browse..allows you to move from one link to another) www.search.com (searches all the web and specialized search engines) vivisimo.com (organizes results)
SPECIALIZED SEARCHABLE DATABASES Lawcrawler (www.lawcrawler.com) for legal documents. www.abalawinfo.org (for people to use in regular lives) www.psychcrawler.com (searches psychological sources) www.archnet.edu/archnet (virtual archaeology library at ASU) ersys.com/usa (data on major communities across the nation) www.searchability.com (searches the databases for your topic)
Virtual library—vlib.org |