Search Tools
SOURCES SELECT® Links and Resources

• All-in-One Search Page
  Places a compilation of various forms-based search tools found on the Internet on one page, combined to form a consistent interface. You must enter your query repeatedly into each search form.
• Alta Vista
  Search tool.
• Clusty
  A metasearch engine which submits queries to a number of sources and clusters the results by topic, source, or other criteria.
• Google
  Good search engine. Rates sites based on number of referrals.
• Kartoo
  Metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. KartOO launches your query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps.
  
• Search Thingy
  Features a form allowing you to search ten major search engines in sequence without having to re-enter your search string. Provides brief ratings of the search engines.
• Sources Listings
  Features more than 5,000 experts, contacts and spokespeople willing to be interviewed by the media.
• Yahoo
  World Wide Web subject tree and search utility with links to tens of thousands of Internet sites.

Related Links

• Alltheweb.com
  Web index and search engine.
• AOL Netfind
  Search engine.
• Copernic
  Web search software.
• Excite
  WWW search engine. More than 1.5 million WWW pages in its database; more than 50,000 reviewed WWW sites. Also includes national and international news, weather, opinion columns and cartoons.
• Google Scholar
  Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
  Features of Google Scholar
  * Search diverse sources from one convenient place
  * Find papers, abstracts and citations
  * Locate the complete paper through your library or on the web
  * Learn about key papers in any area of research
  
• IceRocket
  Blog search tool.
• Mooter
  Clusters results based on relevance to permit zeroing on on best matches.
• NameBase Book Index
  A cumulative index of books and clippings. With name, proximity, country and document search features.
  Don't bother with NameBase unless you can answer "yes" to these four questions:
  * Does your research project involve names of individuals, institutions, groups, or corporations?
  * Did these names exist within the last 80 years?
  * Are these names likely to have been mentioned in books, magazines, or newspapers?
  * Are these names associated with the worlds of government, institutions, finance or organized crime by virtue of power, position, wealth, or notoriety -- rather than being the names of celebrities from sports or entertainment, or notables from science, literature, or the arts?
• UTLink: Resources by Subject
  Quick answers to many questions.
• WebCrawler
  World Wide Web search utility.
• Yahoo Canada
  Yahoo's Canadian World Wide Web subject tree and search utility.