Search Engines & Subject Directories
Search Engine News
Search Engine Showdown: The User's Guide to Web Searching
http://searchengineshowdown.com/
This site "compares and evaluates Internet search engines from the searcher's perspective." Find
critical reviews of the major commercial search engines and subject directories,
ranging from organized comparison charts, reviews, strategies for searching, statistical analyses, and
much more.(LII)*
Search Engine Watch Blog
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/
The purpose of this blog is to highlight news tidbits
and other information not covered in regular Search Engine Watch features. (LII)
Computational Search Engine
Wolfram/Alpha
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
"Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately
computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all
objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it
possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything."
Subject Directories
Academic Info
http://www.academicinfo.net
"An online
subject directory of over 25,000 hand-picked educational resources for high
school and college students as well as a directory of online degree programs and
admissions test preparation resources (SAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, GMAT, USMLE,
TOEFL). We also offer timely news and analysis of critical events including the
Iraq War, Afghanistan Reconstruction, Hurricane Katrina recovery, and the War on
Terrorism."(AI)
BUBL UK
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/
Selected Internet
resources covering all academic subject areas organized by Dewey Decimal
numbers.Provided by the Centre for Digital Library Research in Glasgow,
Scotland.
Digital Librarian: A Librarian's
Choice of the Best of the Web
http://www.digital-librarian.com/
An excellent directory of online resources, organized by topic,
and maintained by a librarian.
Although most of the many links are only briefly annotated, the "see" and "see
also" references assist searchers. The simplicity of the page makes it load
quickly, and this is a good starting place for new Web searchers and librarians alike.
(LII)
Infomine
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
"A virtual
library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff
at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as
databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing
lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and
many other types of information."(Infomine)
*Librarians' Index to the Internet