Search the Internet - McMaster Libraries

Subject Directories
human created, selective, arranged by topic good for broad topics and for finding a few good sites on a particular topic
Academic • Academic Info (US) - scholarly resources, including admissions test preparation sites • BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (Germany) - multi-disciplinary scientific web resources • BUBL Information Service (UK) - all academic subject areas • Digital Librarian (US) - a librarian's choice of the best of the Web • INFOMINE (US) - scholarly web resources • Internet Public Library (US) - authoratative web sites • Intute (UK) - web resources for education, with evaluations and descriptions • Librarians' Internet Index (US) - reliable, trustworthy, librarian-selected websites • Open Directory Project (ODP) (International) - largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory on the web • Pinakes (UK) - links to major subject gateways • The Scout Archives (US) - critically annotated, carefully selected web sites and mailing lists • Virtual Learning Resources Center (International) - academic information websites • WWW Virtual Library (International) - high quality guides to particular sections of the web
General • About • Complete Planet - deep web directory • Direct Search - the "invisible web" • Yahoo	Canadian • Canadian Information by Subject • Creative Commons Canada • Virtual Reference Library • Yahoo Canada

Search Engines	Blog & Social Media Search Engines
machine generated, non-selective, as many web pages as possible good for unique or specific keywords or topics	• Bloggapedia • Bloglines • Blogdigger • BlogZinger • EveryZing • Google Blog Search • IceRocket • Sphere • Technorati
• Ask.com • Cuil - new challenger to Google, getting mixed reactions • Exalead • Gigablast • Google • Google Scholar - a scholarly subset of the Google database • Live Search • Scienceresearch.com - scientific journals and public science databases • Scirus - for scientific information • Scitopia - scholarly science and technology sources • WorldWideScience - global science gateway • Yahoo

Meta-Search Engines	Beta, Experimental, New
cross-search multiple subject directories and search engines	a variety of tools and resources
• Clusty • Dogpile • Fazzle • Ithaki • Ixquick • Kartoo • Mamma • MetaCrawler • Query Server • SurfWax • Vivisimo • WebCrawler • Zuula	• A9.com • Creative Commons • Creative Commons Canada • Google Book Search (more on Google Print...) • OAIster - online collections of books, journals, audio, images, movies • The Infography - professors, librarians, and other scholars recommend the best sources of information about their subjects of expertise • Itools - search, language and research tools on one page • LISZEN: Library & Information Science Search Engine • Soople - easy expert search in Google • The WayBack Machine (Internet Archive) • WebBrain - visual web search • Yahoo! Search for Creative Commons

Guides	Evaluating Internet Resources
more on web searching & web search tools	• Evaluating Internet Sources & Sites: a tutorial (Purdue University) • Evaluating Web Pages (Berkeley) »Web Page Evaluation Checklist • Evaluating Web Pages (Duke) • Evaluating Web Resources (Widener) • Evaluating the Quality of WWW Resources (Valparaiso) • Evaluation Criteria (New Mexico State University) • Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources (UCLA) • Web Page Evaluation (Michigan Tech) • Evaluating Primary Source Web Sites (RUSA History Section)
• Alt Search Engines • AskScott • The Internet Tourbus • ResearchBuzz • Search Engine Colossus • Search Engine Showdown • Search Engine Watch • The Web Search Guide • WebLens
	Citing Internet Resources
	• Citation Style Guides