1. Search tools - Gigablast.
Gigablast has a new feature called Event Guru, the largest event search engine in the U.S. It claims to be 90% wind powered. It is a human powered search engine, so all of the content is added by users. This is similar to wikipedia, but instead of being a dictionary, it's a search engine. The advanced search feature will allow you to refine your search as follows,
| Search for... | ||
|---|---|---|
| all of these words | ||
| this exact phrase | ||
| and this exact phrase | ||
| any of these words | ||
| none of these words | ||
| In this language: | ||
| Restrict to this URL | ||
| Pages that link to this URL | ||
| Site Clustering | yes no | |
| Number of summary excerpts | 0 1 2 3 4 5 | |
| Results per Page | 10 20 30 40 50 100 | |
| Restrict to these Sites | ||
2. Metasearch tools - Meta Crawler. MetaCrawler seems to search several search engines at once for specific items. It compiles all of the top hits from all of the major search engines. It also allows users to refine their searches to videos, images, shopping etc. Dogpile and infoseek are other examples of meta crawlers.
3. Subject directories - Subject directories are online collections that
organize resources by subject. Most seem to be linked to specific libraries. There are some that are for searching the Library of Congress and others that will let you search the deep web for things that are not readily accessible by using a regular search Engine like Google. CompletePlanet is a deep web search engine. It will search over 70,000 databases and specialty search engines. The topics it will search are
Agriculture
Hi, Mona:
ReplyDeleteThanks for your report on the search tool you explored. It doesn't appear that you finished your assignment. Perhaps you'll have time to explore the metasearch and subject directories later.
Cheers,
Andrea
Hi, Mona:
ReplyDeleteThanks for completing this assignment. I hope you will use some of these tools in the future.
Cheers
Andrea