Searching Resources

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A list of Search Engines from the Open Directory Project

Contents

Search-Engines

Meta search-engines

Media

Guides and tutorials

Libraries and journals

  • UT Library Online – “General Libraries – The University of Texas at Austin”
  • LibDex – “The Library Index – Index to 18,000 Libraries”
  • Libweb – “Library Servers via WWW” – “Libweb currently lists over 6100 pages from libraries in over 100 countries.”</i>
  • Library of Congress Online Catalogs – The United States of America’s government project to catalogue all natively published works.
  • NewJour – “This is the archive for NewJour, the Internet list for new journals and newsletters available on the Internet.”</i>
  • Electronic Journal Miner
  • NCSU Libraries Website Search – North Carolina State University
  • ARTFL – “The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language”</i> – Texts, Bibliographies, Reference Works and Collaborations.
    • Encyclope’die ou Dictionnaire raisonne’ des sciences, des arts et des me’tiers – “”The Encyclope’die ou Dictionnaire raisonne’ des sciences, des arts et des me’tiers, par une Socie’te’ de Gens de lettres” was published under the direction of Diderot, with 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes of plates between 1751 and 1772. Containing 72,000 articles written by more than 140 contributors, the Encyclope’die was a massive reference work for the arts and sciences, as well as a machine de guerre which served to propagate the ideas of the French Enlightment. The impact of the Encyclope’die was enormous. Through its attempt to classify learning and to open all domains of human activity to its readers, the Encyclope’die gave expression to many of the most important intellectual and social developments of its time.”</i> – (someone please fix the accents, as I am unable to — Sy)</i>
  • Scout Report Archives – “The Scout Report Archives is a searchable and browseable database to over seven years’ worth of the Scout Report and subject-specific Scout Reports. It contains 13711 critical annotations of carefully selected Internet sites and mailing lists.”</i>

Directories

Dictionaries, thesaurases, phrases

  • OneLook – OneLook is a meta-dictionary search that indexes over 800 online dictionaries.
  • yourDictionary.com – The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language 4th Ed. – and also has some basic translation ability.
  • ARTFL Project: 1913 Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary – “Simple Headword Search Script: 109,562 entries”</i> – from the ARTFL project.
  • Bartlett, Joyn, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th edition – “Familiar Quotations – A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature” – “This tenth edition of 1919 contains over 11,000 searchable quotations and was the first new edition of John Bartlett’s corpus to be published after his death in 1905–the new editor, however, choosing more to supplement than revise the work of the first name in quotations.”</i>

Topic-specific

Real-world (people, places, things – yellow pages, statistics, etc)

  • Yellow Pages Superhighway – “Search 14 million yellow page listings” – “Search over 300 Yellow Page Directories – National & Global
  • How Far Is It – “This service uses data from the US Census and a supplementary list of cities around the world to find the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies). It also provides a map showing the two places, using the Xerox PARC Map Server.” – by “as the crow flies”, it means in a straight line, even though crows don’t fly straight — Sy

Currently uncategorized

  • AllExperts.com – the oldest & largest free Q&A service on the Internet” – Categorized too. Unfortunately, I don’t see an archive of previous questions and their answers, which would be the logical progression with this.
  • Geocrawler.com – “The Knowledge Archive”
  • Ananzi South Africa
  • Zebra – The Black & White Search Engine Being rebuilt as of Nov 2002 – Appears to be down down, Jul ’03.
  • Wisenut
  • Teoma
  • Gigablast

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