Search Engines (Comprehensive Databases) | |
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Google (www.google.com)
= licenses to Yahoo! eg] "vocation hawaii" = "vocation AND hawaii" eg] "vocation hawaii OR paris" eg] "Pig +in +a poke" eg] "+edu" to get specific domain in URL |
FAST search
(www.alltheweb.com)
GoTo (www.goto.com) =always a pay-for-inclusion engine =licenses to Netscape,Lycos,NBCi,iWon,HotBot. |
AltaVista (www.altavista.com) AltaVista Korea (www.altavista.co.kr) |
Lycos (www.lycos.com) Lycos Korea (www.lycos.co.kr) |
SimMani(½É¸¶´Ï: www.simmani.com) => simFile (http://simfile.chol.com) = by Dacom:õ¸®¾È(www.chol.com) |
Kachi (±îÄ¡³× : www.kachi.com) = Korean-Oriented search engine |
Naver (www.naver.com) = by SamSung(»ï¼º) SDS |
Excite (www.excite.com) WebCrawler by Excite (www.webcrawler.com) |
MetaSearch Engines (from Multiple search engines at once) |
MetaCrawler
(www.metacrawler.com)
= To search Altavista, Excite, Lycos, etc |
MoChanNi (¸ðã´Ï : www.MoChanNi.com)
= by DreamX.net |
Vivisimo (http://vivisimo.com) = To search Altavista, Excite, Lycos, etc |
Subject Directories (Selected Resources) |
Yahoo!!
(www.yahoo.com)
Yahoo! Korea (http://kr.yahoo.com) = Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle by David Fillo & Jerry Yang = powered by Google = If no matching Categories or Site found, search will go to its Google database |
Librarians' Index to the Internet
(http://www.lii.org/)
= which is put out by the California Library system |
VRL: Virtual Reference Library (http://vrl.tpl.toronto.on.ca/) = available through the Toronto Public Library = a directory of links compiled by library staff |
Boolean Search Tools | |
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[Not case-sensitive..]
To find things more efficiently by using "Boolean" commands to direct the search! There are 4 types of Boolean search tools, & they can be combined ; | Required & Prohibited search words |
(+) = To require a word and only to include Stop Words
which are ignored such as generic words & letters. | |
eg] Cleveland+ | => [Result]:
Cleverand Browns Cleverand Cavaliers |
eg] "pig +in +a poke"
eg] starwars episode +1 eg] os/+2 |
=> [Result]:
Pig in a poke Starwars Episode 1 OS/2 |
(-) = To exclude a word | |
eg] python -monty | => [Result]:
Ball Python Burmese Python |
eg] bass -speaker | Document Section Restrictions |
(t:) = To restrict searches to document Titles only
(u:) = To restrict searches to document URLs only | Phrase Matching |
("...") = Quotes with phrases
eg] "Summer Olympic" | Wildcard Matching |
(*) = With any letters | |
eg] cap* | => [Result]:
Capital management Australian Capital Territory Western Cape Cape Town | Combining Boolean Commands |
[+, -, t:, u:, " ", *] | |
eg] +t:football -American | => [Result]:
Football (Australian) Football (soccor stadium) |