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Use Search Engines • Search Engines PUNCTUATION • The Invisible Web Search Engines The term “google” has transformed into a verb – to “google” now means to search for something on the Internet. However, there are several other quality engines to use. From Purdue’s OWL (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/), here’s a good list:
General Search Engines:
All4One Simultaneously search10 major http://www.all4one.com search engines
Search for web sites, audio, Alta Vista video, and news; also search by http://www.altavista.com location and language
Environment Web Directory Environmental and health issues http://www.webdirectory.com
Search by language, for video, Excite audio, and mp3, and by relevant http://www.excite.com date
Lycos Search for news http://www.lycos.com
Metacrawler A metasearch engine will check http://www.metacrawler.com other search engines
One of the largest and most The Open Directory Project comprehensive human-edited http://www.dmoz.org directories in the world
Web Crawler Search by location, domain http://www.webcrawler.com name, and for multimedia. In addition to these engines, there are certain Web sites that can direct you to sources not otherwise found. This “invisible web” can be accessed using the following sources:
Search Engines for the Invisible Web:
Archives older web sites that Alexa are no longer available on the http://www.alexa.com Internet
Complete Planet Provides an extensive listing of http://completeplanet.com databases
The Directory of Open A searchable database of full-text Access Journals journals http://www.doaj.org
Indexes over 10 million articles Find Articles from a variety of different http://www.findarticles.com publications
Find Law Provides information on legal http://www.findlaw.com issues organized by category
Provides access to one of the HighWire largest databases of free, full-text, http://highwire.stanford.edu scholarly content A research database that includes Infomine both a browse-able catalogue and http://infomine.ucr.edu searching capabilities
Invisible Web Database Provides links to invisible web http://www.invisible-web.net resources
MagPortal Search for free online magazine http://magportal.org articles on a wide range of topics References
• Purdue University Online Writing Lab. (2011). General writing.Purdue Online Writ- ing Lab, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Retrieved from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/ Contact Us Teresa Milligan [email protected] 612-381-3398 dunwoody.edu/studentsuccess
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