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GENERAL SEARCHING TOOLS |
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Search
Engines |
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Search engines are often useful as
a "starting point" for an enquiry, but they cannot
be trusted for their authoritativeness and reliability. Databases
and deep web resources are much more reliable to use. Every
search engine has a different vision of the web & each one
is updated at different times, and each provides a varying depth
of information.
You must also remember that there is a constant commercial influence
in search results within search engines |
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Google |
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WolframAlpha |
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HotBot |
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Bing |
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Ask.com |
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Data
visualisation search tools |
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Data Visualisation search engines allow to you
search the Web visually, Your search results are displayed visually
so you can explore "picture" of related information,
instead of searching through long lists of text results. |
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Quintura |
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Search Cube |
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Search Me |
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Meta
Search Engines |
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DogPile |
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Kartoo |
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Search
Directories |
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AllRefer
reference |
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Bubl
Link |
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Librarian's
Index |
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Martindale's
- the reference desk |
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Australian
Search Tools |
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Mooter |
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Nine
MSN |
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Sensis |
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Kid's
Search Tools |
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Ask
Kids |
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KidsClick |
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KidsNet |
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Yahoo! Kids |
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SUBJECT SPECIFIC TOOLS |
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Image
Search Tools |
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Need pictures in a hurry. The follow image databases
may help.
Some images may be subject to copyright and permission must
be obtained before downloading or using them. |
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Google
Images |
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Ithaki |
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Picsearch |
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Ditto |
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Picture
Australia |
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Audio and
Video Search Tools |
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BlinkxTV |
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Music
Australia |
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Find
Sounds |
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AOL Video |
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Usenet
Discussion Groups |
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Before the Web and web browsers, and
before email became ubiquitous, online communication meant posting
text messages on electronic bulletin boards where others could
read and reply to them. Usenet began as a collection of these
bulletin boards (now called discussion forums or newsgroups).
Over the years, the number of such newsgroups has grown to the
thousands, hosted all over the world and covering every conceivable
topic about which humans converse. |
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Google
Groups |
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Yahoo
Groups |
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Blogs |
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A blog is an online Web journal or
Web log.
The act of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone
who keeps a blog is a "blogger." A blog may be something
as simple as an online diary, the musings of a political pundit,
or daily notes distributed on a new technology or service. |
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Technorati |
