Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web

Digital Librarian is maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, New York

Search and Navigation Tools

Best Search Engines? Google, AlltheWeb.com, Yahoo, Ask , Microsoft Live Search, Alta Vista, AOL

What's new in search engines? Try the beta version of AlltheWeb's Live Search. As you're typing, it's already searching and displaying results. Fast and efficient. Compare it to Google Suggest. Actress Janina Gavankar is the main attraction in Ms Dewey, an interactive search engine using Microsoft's LiveSearch. With SearchMash, launched in by Google in September 2006, you "get web and image results presented side-by-side" and you can drag-and-drop web search results. See features and Google's New SearchMash Test Site by Danny Sullivan.

A9 - Search engine developed by Amazon.com. For privacy you should use the generic version. (See their privacy statement.) See also Amazon's Alexa Web Search

Academic Info: Educational Subject Directory - Mike Madin, Seattle. Other selective Internet subject directories or gateways include, in alphabetical order, About.com, Apple Learning Interchange, AskA+ Locator, Best Information on the Net, BUBL Link, Dutch Electronic Subject Service, Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections, Internet Public Library Reference Center, Internet Scout Project, invisible-web.net (Chris Sherman and Gary Price), Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators, the Librarians' Index to the Internet, Martindale's The Reference Desk, Merlot, Refdesk.com, Renardus, Resource Discovery Network (with a Virtual Training Suite), Les Signets de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, and WWW Virtual Library. More eclectic collections include Beyond the Black Stump and Telsun Spur: A Way Station for Snark Hunters. (For more subject directories see Digital Librarian's 's Internet Subject Directories.)

Accoona - Search engine uses artificial intelligence ("no worries" from the Swahili phrase "accoona matata")

Alexa Web Search

Alice - French Internet search engine. Other French language search engines, subject directories and portals (moteurs, annuaires et portails) include Google France, Yahoo France, AOL.fr, MSN France, Alta Vista, AntiSearch, Club Internet, Supramoteur, Lycos, Mirago, Abacho and Voilà. Grifil is a "moteur de recherche sur le monde de la BD [bandes dessinées - comic strips]."

AlltheWeb.com - Owned by Yahoo. Try the beta version of Live Search . As you're typing, it's already searching and displaying results. Fast and efficient. Compare it to Google Suggest.

Alta Vista - In early Internet days, this was one of the best search engines, but it has long been surpassed by Google. Be aware that the first two or three results ('Featured Sites') have paid to appear. You can also search for Image, Audio & Video. One of the best features is their translation service, Babel Fish Translation, which will translate text you type in or webpages (in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese and Korean).

Answers.com - Definitions and explanations for over 1 million topics.

AOL.Search - Uses Google's search technology

Apache Jakarta Project: Apache Lucene - "Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform." See also Apache Nutch

Apple Learning Interchange: K-12 Education - "Safe and relevant pieces of information carefully selected and cataloged by educators then organized by type, subject and learning level for you to access easily." With a searchable database of Learning Resources.

Art Images: There are many resources for locating art on the Web. Using Google Image Search is probably the quickest way to locate art, but often the images are too small or the links to the original sources are dead. Most search engines offer tools to find images. Many museums offer searchable databases and have digitized much of their collections. Chris Witcombe's Art History Resources on the Web has links to Museums & Galleries as does Jonathan Bowen in his Virtual Library museums pages (part of the WWW Virtual Library) and UNESCO Archives Portal
    The ImageBase of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco has one of the largest free database of images on the Web with over 82,000 objects (including 3,000 Japanese prints). Other museums with large digitized collections include the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (more than 5,600 images - be sure to check the images only box), the Metropolitan Museum in New York (over 6,500 images), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (over 30,000 images), the Getty in Los Angeles (which also has a Media Gallery), the Tate Gallery in London (65,000 images), the National Gallery of Canada (over 10,000 images in Cybermuse), the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (with almost 24,000 objects in its Images Online), the British Museum's Compass database (5,000 objects), the State Hermitage Museum Digital Collection in St. Petersburg and London's National Portrait Gallery (over 37,759 images).
    Though it is a subscription database, the AMICO Library is searchable and provides thumbnails of over 100,000 works of art owned by members of the Art Museum Image Consortium. Other useful resources include the Perseus Digital Library (search for architecture), Archnet, ArtServe at the Australian National University, Artist Index, Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation's World Art Treasures, the Art Renewal Center, and Collage Portal. The Agence photographique de la Réunion des musées nationaux is a searchable database of art owned by selected French museums with over 100,000 color images and over 500,000 black & white images. ART[image] is a joint digitization project of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. SIRIS: the Smithsonian Online Catalog contains over 29,000 digital images.
    Commercial resources include the Artcyclopedia which has indexed 1200 art sites, and offers more than 32,000 links directly to an estimated 100,000 works by over 7,500 artists, CGFA--A Virtual Art Museum, Web Gallery of Art, a database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1200-1700), currently containing over over 13,500 reproductions, Mark Harden's Artchive, Nicolas Pioch's WebMuseum with Famous Paintings Collection. Art Museum Image Consortium - Not-for-profit association of institutions engaged in building a joint digital library which documents their collections, to be made available to the university, public library, and kindergarten-through-grade-12 educational communities. Provides access to a searchable Thumbnail Catalogue.

Art Biographies - Art-related biographical resources include Getty Union List of Artist Names, Dictionary of Art Historians: a Biographical Dictionary of Historians, Museum Directors and Scholars of Art, Archives of American Art Oral History Interviews, Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog, and the Library of Congress Authorities, Getty Provenance Index, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture. Online catalogs can also help with biographical information. For example, a simple (Recherche simple) search for Vuillard in the online catalog of the Institut national d'historie de l'art locates 197 records.

ASCAP's ACE - Database allows you to search by song title, writer, performer or publisher. BMI Repetoire, a database of 7.5 million song titles, is searchable by artist, title, publisher and songwriter/composer.

Ask - Natural language meta-search engine, it allows you to ask questions in complete sentences. Formerly known as Ask Jeeves.

Beaucoup! - T. Madden's collection of links to over 2,500 search engines.

Blinkx - Video search engine allows users to search for video clips from 15 television channels (including Fox News, BBC News, ITN, and Sky News)

Blogs: Google Blog Search, Technorati, IceRocket; Feedster; Bloglines.

BlowSearch - Meta search engine dispalys results form 30 search engines.

BoardReader - Search bulletin boards, forums and message boards

Books: Search Engine Marketing, Inc.: Driving Search Traffic to Your Company's Web Site (2005) by Mike Moran and Bill Hunt. Read the First Chapter.

BotSpot - Information on bots and intelligent agents.

CataList, the official catalog of LISTSERV lists

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications - Search for Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; documents issued by executive departments. Coverage begins with January 1994 and new records are added daily.

Centers for Disease Control CDC Web Search - Allows you to search individual state health departments.

Clusty - Clustering

College & Research Libraries News: Internet Resources Published Monthly - American Library Association. Also provides a Internet Reviews Archive.

Comcast Search

CompletePlanet: Complete Source for Search Engines and Databases - 70,000 ''content-rich'' databases uncovered by BrightPlanet.com. Their tutorial Guide to Effective Searching of the Internet offers some useful tips.

Creative Commons -"Creative Commons today unveiled an updated beta version of its search engine, which scours the web for text, images, audio, and video free to re-use on certain terms a search refinement offered by no other company or organization today....'The Creative Commons search engine helps companies, educators, and artists find content they can re-use without having to call a lawyer, and it offers authors and artists who want to share their work a competitive advantage toward having their work discovered online' said Neeru Paharia, assistant director of Creative Commons and the search engine’s product manager." (November 22, 2004 Press Release)

Developmental Gateway Foundation Communities Advanced Search - Developmental Gateway Foundation offers "online resources portal for development information and knowledge-sharing worldwide. The tools in this website bring together people and organizations around the glove who are working to improve life in developing countries."

Ditto - Search engine for images.

Dogpile - Meta search engine searches the databases of other search engines. Others include Ixquick Metasearch, ProFusion, Debriefing (also available in French), Highway 61, MetaCrawler, and CNET's Search.com. MSN Search and Ask Jeeves also employ meta search technology, taking data from multiple sources.

Daypop - "Search 7500 News Sites and Weblogs for Current Events and Breaking News."

eHow - Comprehensive source of information on how to do things, offering thousands of specific project instructions. Comparable to Learn2.com.

Eldis: Gateway to Development and Environment Information - Gateway to online information on development in countries of the South. Coverage includes social, economic, political and environmental issues.

Excite

Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook - By Ron Hock

Fagan Finder - Michael Fagan is a high school student in Ontario

FatWallet - Shopping search engine

Federal Depository Library Program Desktop (FDLP) - "Targeted to documents librarians and staff of the more than 1,300 libraries that comprise the Federal Depository Library Program." Has links to various government resources in Locator Tools and Services: Browse Topics, Federal Resources Organized by Topic, A-Z Index of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies, Information by Topic, Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, Federal Agency Internet Sites, U.S. Government Manual, Government Information Locator Service (GILS), GPO Access Online Resources: A-Z Resource List, New Electronic Titles, U.S. Goverment Online Bookstore, Subject Bibliographies Index, Main publisher domains within the Catalog of United States Government Publications, Specialized Collections, Congressional Directory, Government Accountability Office (GAO).

FindArticles.com - Free online article-search service allows you to search for (and read) articles published over the last 1 to 2 years in more than 300 reputable magazines and journals. You can view publications by subject or by name. A similar resource is MagPortal.

Fireball - German search engine. See also Web.de, AOL Suche, Alettra, DDR-Suche,

FirstGov - Search for government information by topic. There is a Reference Center for librarians and researchers as well as a detailed Site Index. Firstgov also has many sub-divisions targeted at specific groups and populations including DisabilityInfo.gov, Students.gov, Seniors.gov, Kids.gov, Childcare.gov, Afterschool.gov, Business.gov, Export.gov, Womenbiz.gov, Fedbizopps.gov, Consumer.gov, ConsumerAction.gov, Recreation.gov, Fedstats.gov, Health.gov and Nutrition.gov.

Footage - Search hundreds of major stock news footage sources world wide. For example, a phrase search (match exactly) for Clifford Case retrieved 175 records in 26 databases. (See also Wordwave, Virage, Sonic Foundry, Convera, and Vodium)

Gigablast

GlobalSpec Engineering Search Engine

Google - Created by Stanford University graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page, this search engine ranks sites by how frequently they are cited. "Google is a play on the word googol, which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, to represents the figure 1 followed by 100 zeroes. Google's use of the term reflects the immense amount of information available on the web.")

Librarian Newsletter(December 2005 and January 2006).

Advanced Search

Web Search Features

Language, Display, & Filtering Options - Allows you to customize and save your preferences. For example, you can set the number of search results (to 20, 30, 50, or 100), your language preference,and set your default for SafeSearch (adult content filtering). The GoogleScout feature brings up a list of sites related to each search result.

Google Services & Tools

Google News - "Search and browse 4,500 news sources updated continuously."

Google Scholar - "Enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.

Google Book Search

Google Maps

Google Groups - Discussion network (formerly Deja) to post and read comments in Usenet discussion forums. Has a complete 20-year Usenet Archive with over 700 million messages.

Google Blog Search

Google Image Search - Has over 150 million images.

Google Directory

Google Video

Google Labs - "Showcases a few of our favorite ideas that aren't quite ready for prime time."

Google University Search

Froogle - Google's shopping search engine

Add URL

Google Help

Google Management - With images.

Googlewhack - Gary Stock

Government of Canada Web Archive - "At the time of its launch in Fall 2007, approximately 100 million digital objects (over 4 terabytes) of archived Federal Government website data was made accessible."

GPO Access Multi-Database Search - Will search Congressional Record, Federal Register, Congressional Bills, Public Laws, U.S. Code. There is also a Database List.

Grokker

GuideStar - Database of more than 850,000 IRS-recognized nonprofit organizations.

Healthline - Vertical search engine for consumers seeking answers to medical questions.

HighBeam Research - "Online research engine for individuals, filling the gap between free search engines and high-end research services. By delivering sophisticated research tools with convenient access to the free Web, paid online services and our proprietary databases, we empower individual researchers to efficiently locate, organize and deliver answers." They claim to have 35 million documents from over 3,000 sources. I searched for Fisheating Creek in the HighBeam Library Research (Newspapers and Magazines) and located some articles I hadn't seen before. A search for Robbinston also retrieved some timely and relevant results. Although you can't access the full-text of the premium articles, you can read excerpts and you can sort by relevancy or date. I also tried searching for Sharia in the Reference Research section and retrieved some free results, one of them from the Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English, 2006. This could be a useful resource for those who don't have access to subscription databases. Membership is $19.95 a month or $99.95 for a year. There's a free, one-week trial. Worth exploring.

In-extenso

- "Moteur de recherche spécialisé en sciences humaines et sociales."

Indeed - Job search engine

Infography - Howard Chesshire, Fields of Knowledge, Springfield, Vermont

IngentaConnect ($) - "The most comprehensive collection of academic and professional publications...search 17,967,277 articles, chapters, reports ...and browse 29,031 publications..."

Internet Archive

Internet News - "Articles and news about web searching and Internet use" written by Gwen Harris, an information consultant specializing in Web searching and online education. See also her Web Search Guide.

Internet Tutorials - Laura Cohen

invisible-web.net: the Invisible Web Directory - Companion directory to the book, The Invisible Web: Finding Hidden Internet Resources Search Engines Can't See by Chris Sherman and Gary Price.

IP Addresses -There is an IP Address Index Encyclopedia relating IP network numbers to network names and identities, for class A, B and C networks, created by John Crossley. (This url is actually a mirror maintained by Paul Rogers). There are Whois databases at ARIN (North America), LANIC (Latin America), RIPE (Europe), APNIC (Asia Pacific), AfriNIC (Africa) and InterNIC. Other useful resources include IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) (with Index by Country Code), APNIC's list of countries worldwide, ASN by Country Search). For example, a whois search on APNIC for 202.105.32.74 reveals the IP number belongs to China Telecom. Chuck Semeria's Understanding IP Addressing: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know (pdf), one of the 3Com Press Box Technical Papers, is also helpful. Other useful tools can be found at multiple DNS lookup engine, Antifraud.com, SamSpade.org, Netcraft, DShield IP Info, Whois Source, VisualRoute and Network Calculators IP Address Converter. Belnet, the Belgian Research Network, has a Whois Gateway for ASN.

ISBN

US ISBN Agency - Has information on the switch to the 13 digit ISBN: Are You Ready for ISBN-13?. "On January 1, 2007, the book industry will begin using 13 digit ISBNs to identify all books in supply chain." They provide a ISBN-13 Online Converter.

ISBN - Glenn Fleishman's comparison book shopping site allows you to search by ISBN, author, title, or subject.

isbndb.com - You can query ISBNdb.com API for the location of source MARC records for any book in the database.

jake (jointly administered knowledge environment) - Search for journal titles and ISSNs. (There's an alternate version)

JournalismNet - Created by Julian Sher, who trains journalists in Web searching. There are sections on how to find newspapers, TV news, radio news, alternative news, video search tools, people, phone directories and information about countries.

Kartoo

LawCrawler - FindLaw's intelligent agent for searching legal sites.

Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web - Smithsonian Institution resource allows you to search by Exhibition Name, Institution, Library, Archive, and subject term.

Library Catalogs

BN-OPALE PLUS - The catalog of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France provides access to their online web catalog with over 7 million records.

British Library Integrated Catalogue - Over twelve million items

Catalogue collectif de France

COPAC - Union catalogue. "It provides free access to the merged online catalogues of 24 major university research libraries in the UK and Ireland plus the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the National Library of Wales/Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru."

The European Library - Has information on Libraries

Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog which provides access to 75 million books and serials in library and book trade catalogs worldwide

Lib-web-cats: A directory of libraries throughout the world - Marshall Breeding

Libweb: Library Servers via WWW - Thomas Dowling. On October 2, 2006, "Libweb currently lists over 7500 pages from libraries in over 135 countries."

LibDex: the Library Index - Peter Scott's index to 18,000 libraries

Library of Congress Online Catalog

Library of Congress Department of Prints & Photographs Online Catalog - Searches records in the 40 collections of the Prints and Photographs Division. There is a Subject Index and All Text Search. This could be a rich resource for local history. A creator search, for example, for Collier, John will locate thousands of regional photographs. The option to Display Images with Neighboring Call Numbers is useful to locate photographs from the same geographic area. There is also a Thesaurus for Graphic Materials (in two parts).

National Library Catalogues Worldwide - John W. East

WorldCat.org - "Search for an item in libraries near you. 1.3 billion items in more than 10,000 libraries worldwide."

RedLightGreen - Research Libraries Group catalog contains records for 130 million books. Service to end November 1, 2006

Z39.50 Gateway - Library of Congress

LookSmart - Category-based Web directory, founded in 1995 by Australian husband-and-wife team, Evan Thornley and Tracey Ellery. Claims to have 1,217,000 records in its directory. Their FindArticles.com is a free online article-search service. It allows you to search for (and read) articles published over the last 1 to 2 years in more than 300 reputable magazines and journals. You can view publications by subject or by name. For more, see Gale Full-Text Content Free on LookSmart? Well, Some of It … in Information Today NewsBreaks.

Lycos - Web directory and search enginel. Available in Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Swedish. The Lycos Image Gallery enables youto "browse or search through more than 80,000 free images, current pictures and vintage illustrations." MP3 Search is billed as the "world's largest MP3 site."

Matt Cutts - Software engineer at Google.

Ministère de la culture et de la communication - Provides links to Bases de données patrimoniales and to Bases de données Documentation. In the latter you'll find (in French) descriptions and links to over 40 French databases. One Searchable Database from the Agence photographique de la Réunion des musées nationaux holds 100,000 Images of objects in French national museums.

Mooter

MSN Search - Microsoft search engine "integrates content from MSN.COM with a comprehensive Web directory of handpicked, reviewed sites and an extensive text-based search engine."

Multimedia Search Engines and Subject Directories (for audio and video): You can use Google or Yahoo to search for terms such as webcast, netcast, audiocast, cybercast, podcast, Internet broadcast, lecture series, archived lectures, web media, multimedia, audio, archived audio, archived video, audio archive, video archive, on demand, streaming, realaudio, mp3, sdp, etc. To locate university webcasts use this search query: inurl:webcast inurl:.edu. Specialized sites include: AlltheWeb: Audio, AlltheWeb: Video, Alta Vista Video Search, Audiofind: Multimedia Search Engine, Blinkx, CNET Music Center, FindSounds, Lycos Music Downloads, Lycos Multimedia, Open Video Project, Radio Scout, a public radio broadcast search, SingingFish, Songtext, and SpeechBot (11/4/05: no longer available), and University Channel.

National Archives and Records Administration Archival Research Catalog (ARC) - Online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries. "Perform a keyword, digitized image and location search. ARC's advanced functionalities also allow you to search by organization, person, or topic."

National Geographic Society Publications Index

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections - Searchable via RLIN AMC File Advanced Search Form, an Easy Search Form (word list) and an Easy Search Form (left-anchored phrase). The British Library Manuscript Catalog is also searchable.

Netcraft - Their Web Site Finder will search 27,585,726 web sites. They also "report a site's operating system, web server, and netblock owner together with, if available, a graphical view of the time since last reboot for each of the computers serving the site." A search (site contains) for k12.me.us, for example, locates over 200 K-12 school web sites in Maine. A search for www.state.??.us will locate US State government web servers.

Netscape Search - Now you can also type the word "search," a space and a term such as "search: yankees" or "search: health" right from the browser location bar.

Network Solutions WHOIS Lookup

NonProfit Gateway - Network of links to Federal Government information and services. Search more than 530,000 government web pages.

Noxtrum - Spanish search eninge.

OAIster - "Collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources...that are easily searchable by anyone." A University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service. On 23 November 2005 there were "6,073,500 records from 572 institutions."

Online Magazine - Provides access to selected articles from current and past issues. Has frequent articles on search engines.

Open Directory Project - "Open content web directory to harness the knowledge and creativity of 'volunteer editors' empowering consumers to find the information they need quickly and easily."

Overture - "One-Stop Search Marketing Resource for Businesses Worldwide. "Yahoo subsidiary to be renamed Yahoo! Search Marketing Solutions

PBS Search

PicSearch

PicoSearch - Free search engine for your web site. It's being used by the American Philosophical Society

Powerset

Profusion

Query Server

Radio Scout: Public radio broadcast search - Search for public radio broadcast information to find what's been on the air and what's coming up.

RedLightGreen - Research Libraries Group catalog contains "130 million books for education and research; and it links students back to their campus libraries for the books they select."

ResearchBuzz - Covers Internet research with daily updates on search engines, new data managing software, browser technology, large compendiums of information and Web directories.

Researchville - Metasearch tool for locating current news, reference and multimedia.

Resource Discovery Network - "Provides access to a series of Internet resource catalogues containing descriptions of high quality Internet sites, selected and described by specialists from within UK academia and affiliated organisations. Value-added services such as interactive web tutorials and alerting services are also provided to enable users to make more of their time on the Internet." Their Virtual Training Suite is "a set of online tutorials designed to help students, lecturers and researchers improve their Internet information skill."

Scirus - Scientific information. See also Science.gov

Scout Report - Weekly publication of the Internet Scout Project offers a selection of Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators from the Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Offers a full-text search of over 7,000 Scout Report summaries.

Search Systems - Links to over 25,000 searchable public record databases, sorted by subject and by state. There are databases for corporations, bankruptcy, death & marriage records, professionals (architects, physicians etc.) assessors and a wide variety of other resources.

Search Engine Colossus: International Directory of Search Engines - Created by Bryan Strome.

Search Engine Optimizer (SEO) - See Google Information for Webmasters on Search Engine Optimizers

Search Engine Roundtable

Search Engine Showdown - By Greg R. Notess, Reference Librarian at Montana State University. Has a Stats section which reports on traffic and database size.

Search Engine Watch - Detailed information provided by Danny Sullivan of Calafia Consulting. His Checking Your Listing in Search Engines gives tips on best ways to find your web pages in the major search engines.

SRU Search and Retrieve via URL - Library of Congress standards

Search.com - CNET

Searchebooks.com - Locate e-texts. A search for Charolotte Bronte, for example, retrieves 102 results.

SearchEdu.com - "Over 20 million university and education pages indexed and ranked in order of popularity." (See also SearchGov.com, SearchMil.com and Searchebooks.com.)

Searcher: the Magazine for Database Professionals

Searching and Researching on the Internet and the World Wide Web - "For Students, Teachers, Librarians, and Folks Who Want to Stay in the Know." By Ernest Ackermann and Karen Hartman.

SearchMash - Launched in September 2006 by Google,

SingingFish - Audio-video search

SMEALSearch - "Specialized search engine that searches for and indexes academic business documents that are in either PDF or PostScript (PS) formats."

Snap

Snopes - Identifies "urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation".

Social Bookmarking - See Wikipedia entry for Folksonomy and Social Bookmarking Tools, D-Lib Magazine, April 2005, Volume 11 Number 4.

Flickr - Photo Sharing

Furl

Digg

Social Science Data on the Internet - Searchable collection of 748 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways and addresses. (University of California, San Diego)

SONIC (Sound Online Inventory and Catalog) - Search for radio broadcasts, commercial 78s & 45s, music and spoken wordin the Collections of the Recorded Sound Section of the Library of Congress. See also their Recorded Sound Reference Center.

SpeechBot - Search engine currently indexes 15588 hours of audio & video content that is hosted and played from other websites (PBS Online NewsHour, Car Talk Radio Show, Marketplace Radio Business News, Here and Now, On Point, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, Soundcheck, the Diane Rehm Show, the Connection, the Leonard Lopate Show, Motley Fool, Fresh Air, Talk of the Nation, the Brian Lehrer Show, Only A Game, Scuba Radio, the White House).

SurfWax - Meta-search engine offers "FocusWords, SearchSets, SiteSnaps, ContextZooming, and InfoCubby."

Technorati - Weblog (blog) search. Tracks over nine million weblogs.

Teoma Search - Delivers three types of search results:authoritative sites relevant to search term, Web Pages by topic and directories.

Time Magazine - Searchable archives from 1994 to present. You can also browse issues by cover.

Traceroute

Helios Traceroute

VisualRoute Traceroute

Traceroute.org - Worldwide links to services

United States Congress - Official, searchable publication databases authorized for dissemination to the public via GPO Access.

Vanderbilt Television News Archive - Abstracts of evening news broadcasts since 1968, searchable by keyword. (Free registration.)

Virgilio - La guida italiana ad Internet.

Virtual Learning Resources Center

Vivisimo - Concept clustering

VROOSH - "Canadian search engine that acts as both a metacrawler and webcrawler utilizing fast parallel technology for speed and accuracy." There are also pecialized search options for FTPs, MP3s and News.

Web Site Search Tools - Search Tools Consulting.

Worio - Search engine for computer scientists and programmers created by a team at the University of British Columbia.

Yahoo - Provides an Advanced Search option and a Help page. Yahoo now utilizes Google full-text indexing of the entire Web. Click on the Web Pages on the results page to utilize the Google full-text search. (Yahoo is an acrononym for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.) The Yahoo Site Explorer "allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search. View the most popular pages from any site, dive into a comprehensive site map, and find pages that link to that site or any page."

Ziggs - "Index Index of 3,118,832 professionals representing 92,733 companies.." (on 18 February 2006)

Zniff