Use a search engine to find Internet sites from all over
the world and on any topic. TJU librarians have chosen some favorite
search engines to get you started. Read about
search engines to become an effective searcher, or recommend
a site if your favorite isn't on our list.
Individual General Search Engines
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Specialty Search Engines
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| These individual sites do their own unique web crawls:
Others search more than one search engine at a time (metasearch), or provide value-added interfaces and features:
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- About,
how-to columns written by a network of 500 "guides."
- Boardreader, for web sites that host user feedback, Twitter, microblogs, discussion forum audio/video files, and discussion groups and forums
- Chmoogle, structure searching for free chemical information
- Find That File, a comprehensive file search on the Internet (as opposed to web pages). Common searches are for PDFs, Documents (DOC, TXT, etc), Audio, Video, RAR and ZIP compressed files, Fonts, and much much more.
- Google Book Search, for books in full text
- Google Scholar, for scholarly literature
- Kosmix, for health, autos and travel
- Scirus, for Web pages, journals, patents, pre-prints, and other
resources in science, medicine and technology
- Wolfram Alpha, for data
and computations, just like an almanac
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Subject Guides
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People, Products & Discussions
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- Pipl - impressive results from the deep web
- AnyWho
- white and yellow pages
- Super Pages
- yellow pages
- WhoWhere
- InfoPlease
- daily almanac, with over 30,000 biographies
- Tile.Net
- discussion lists, newsgroups, FTP Sites, & computer products
vendors
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