Library - Web Search Tools

This page lists top-rated Internet search engines, based on evaluations in Search Engine Watch,  Search Engine Showdown and other sources. For best results, check the 'help' or 'search tips' page of each search engine before starting a search.

Top choice  click on logo      or Google Advanced Search try to use very specific or unusual words, names, phrases "prince george cougars"  <-- put phrases in quotes "prince george cougars" schedule  <-- quickly finds schedule for Cougars cookies recipes -nuts <-- add -minus in front of words not wanted "lord * * flies" or "george * bush" <-- use * as a wildcard, e.g. "lord of the flies" "george w. bush" "george walker bush" etc. Google Tips/Tricks Poster Google Cheat Sheet  - http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html Google Scholar: articles - http://scholar.google.com/ Google Scholar advanced search - http://scholar.google.no/advanced_scholar_search?hl=en Google Books: snippets of text - http://books.google.com/ Soople: Google searches using pull-down menus - http://soople.com/ Library and academic subject guides iPL2: Internet Public Library-Librarian’s Internet Index National Library's Canadian Information by Subject Infomine: scholarly internet resource collections WWW Virtual Library Academic InfoNet: gateway to educational resources, browse by subject or search by keyword BASE search: open access documents, articles DMOZ Open Directory Project: web directory LookSmart Direct Search: links to 'hidden web' Pew Research Center: technology topics Examples of specialized subject guides: Health Canadian Health Network Medline Plus Images, graphics, photos, video, music Google Image Search Google Video Academic Earth: post-secondary lecture videos Annenberg Media Learner.org: free educational videos Ditto: images Flickr: free online photo sharing FotoSearch: stock photography iTunes: music Library of Congress photo collections Music Download.com Education Podcast Network: podcast programs Research Channel Video Library   Search For Video: online video clips VideoLectures: educational lectures Yotophoto: free-to-use photos and images YouTube: video clips  Other search engines Yahoo: Canada/All, useful subject directory Bing: Microsoft search tool   Ask.com: ask a question; natural language searching AltaVista: includes Babelfish translation tool Excite: "more like this" feature, concept-based Colossus: search engines by country A-Z Scirus: science search engine Metasearch engines: they use more than one search engine  Mamma Metacrawler Dogpile IxQuick

Local Search BC Search Canada: Anywhere.ca Local Interest: pull-down menu on Web Sites page PG and Area InfoPages (download directory) Craig's List: Prince George Explore Canadian Culture People and addresses Canada 411: street addresses Canada Post: postal code search Yellow Pages Google Local Canada Yellow Pages Search: http://local.google.ca/ www.yellowpages.ca: limit by province, city, category Search BC Superpages: Canadian business and people YellowPages.com: good for US/International Infospace Switchboard Find People: with reverse phone look-up-journalism.net Addresses.com: email, phone, street, reverse look-up  (note: you do not have to download the toolbar) Internet Address Finder Pipl "most comprehensive people search on web" White Pages: with reverse phone look-up Who2: find famous people Yahoo People Search Newsgroups - blogs, usenet, mailing lists, e-zines etc. BlogSearch: blogger.com Blog Search Engine: web logs, blogs, blogging Blogpulse.com: web logs, blogs, blogging Technorati: blogs Google Groups: Usenet Yahoo Groups: mailing lists, groups Facebook Eons: facebook for 49+ boomers  Chat acronyms and email shorthand abbreviations: Netlingo Canadian e-zines  Software Files and FTP Download.Com Freeware Web: files, screensavers, wallpaper Shareware TuCows Koders Search for Open Source Code