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Search Page Classifieds & Auctions
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Classifieds2000 Yahoo: Classifieds |
ON SALE First Auction |
| ebay the most popular auction site, lists around 700,000 items, many with photos. | |
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City Searching Communities | |
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sidewalk
is, by far, the most well developed city search page. Excite Travel by City searches more than 5,000 destinations. |
city search Ant Hill |
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Library Book Search Sites | |
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Catalogs are great for finding general information on traditional subjects. They organize Web pages by subject, which makes them much easier to use than search engines. But if you're researching a specialized or unusual topic, use a search engine. About | |
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Yahoo,
the
most used search engine on the
web, made up of 14 main subject headings, or top level categories, 'is
the best subject tree to start with"AND "is probably the best place to start any search of the
Internet;" and "...helps
novices.".(S,D,U,H) The Argus Clearing House is a collection of guides to (rated and evaluated) web resources categorized by subject category. BUBL LINK / 5:15, Scotland's Strathclyde University's resource catalog, organizes its links according to Dewey Decimal Classification, and is known for its selectivity and the quality of its resources. Magellan provides "sites that have been evaluated by a staff of reviewers on the basis of depth, ease of use, and innovation. It also rates newsgroups, listservs and mailing lists." provides a feature called Green Light which appears next to reviewed sites that, at the time of review, have no material "apparently intended for mature audiences." This feature pertains only to http sites, and applies only to the homepage itself, not to its links/z' EINET: Galaxy (Over 100,000 Web documents) "is another hierarchical, topically organized search engine. Each topic has its own page in the Galaxy, and each page is organized into many lists.", Includes a subject tree.(C,T,Y) Lycos Top 5% "is a selective directory(catalog) of top-shelf sites rated by the Web's most experienced reviewers and is good if you want to find only THE best site on a particular subject." HOT100 has an engine and 100 hot links on the page itself. Directory USA is another catalogue of links you might try. RANK THIS Guide To Search Engines gives helpful tips in using the main search engines. Business Websource (for Business Sites) will either search all subjects, or any particular individual subject. info please has "country profiles, scientific theories, sports stats, celebrities' birthdays, and other fascinating almanac-style tidbits." | |
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FTP File Searching
Lycos Advanced FTP Search is great for finding files on the web.
General Resources
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education.yahoo allows you to
reference a number of dictionaries, a thesaurus and a number of other useful
references. Invisible Web (Berkeley Univ.) "Vast amounts of information on the Web, such as data in searchable databases, can't be found through standard search engines. The librarians at UC Berkeley demystify this invisible Web with graphs, links, and clear explanations about how to find such valuable info." refdesk "Created by Bob Drudge, father of INternet enfant terrible Matt Drudge, this site is a gateway to virtually every major reference tool online; dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, almanacs." Electric Library offers both Boolean and natural language searching of magazines, books, newspapers, pictures, maps and TV and Radio scripts collectively or individually. Infomine, the University of California at Riverside's subject catalog of the Web, has over 9500 links to university level research and educational tools on the Internet. IntIndex: An Internet Index provides links to sources that are used frequently. InterCat, OCLC's Internet Cataloging Project, is a searchable database containing 92,000+ bibliographic records for Internet resources that have been selected and cataloged by libraries worldwide. The Otis Index is a collection of search tools as well as indexes to newsgroups and software. Rice University's Internet Navigation Tools is a directory of some of the more useful Internet navigation tools listed by type, including people directories and non-web Internet indexes, with recommended beside the better resources. | |
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Natural Language Searches (which means you can simply type in a question you want answered.) | |
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Ask Jeeves
is one of the two most useful parallel search engines. It compacts and returns
from many engines onto one page
(in drop down menus for each); so that you can easily choose between sites
without refreshing the page to the next set of returns like the rest of the
parallel search engines. | |