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Internet Search Engines

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GoogleCurrently the largest and most popular search engine for the web. Return set is ranked by relevancy. Advanced ways of searching available.

Google Scholar  This service from Google searches scholarly literature, including articles, theses, books and technical reports from many areas of research. Some materials are free, some will be available to WMU users by clicking on Find it @WMU, while others will require a fee. Please remember to use library databases for a more complete search of scholarly literature.

BingNew search engine from Microsoft, it makes an extra effort to help searchers with some targeted topics, such as shopping, travel and health research.

Yahoo DirectoryThe oldest Web directory is still one of the best and now uses its own search engine. Also, Yahoo provides a standard Web search engine at AlltheWeb--see listing above for direct link.

If you use the advanced search, you will go directly to the Web search screen.

WolframAlphaOne of the new search engines that bills itself as a computational knowledge engine. "Enter your question or calculation, and WolframAlpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer."

AlltheWebPowered by Yahoo, this engine now has a Google-like search box as well as advanced search options, pictures, and media searching.

AskThis was the original "natural language" search engine, known as Ask Jeeves, and is still one of the best. There are several choices such as Web search, Images, News, and Blogs.

Scirus  Searches over "450 million science-related Web sites," including .edu sites; locates peer-reviewed, full-text articles not found by other search engines; and selectively identifies "deep" scientific, scholarly, technical, and medical data on the Web.

VivisimoPowerful search engine, first available in 2000, with ability to cluster Web search results. Will provide document clustering through an internal algorithm called Clusty linked from the Vivisimo home page.

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