Hit: Evaluating Search Engines

[Terrie Hinojosa <hinojosa_baker@YAHOO.COM>]

I know that this is a great group, but
when I experience how quick and generous
you are with your help....well I am once
again impressed!!! Thank each one of you
that contributed.  I hope this may be of
use to others.
Here we go...not only are there lists of
search engines, but many sites to
evaluate and rank them!

This is from my web site at
http://geocities.com/thslib452/internetj
l.html
Search Engines
http://directory.google.com/
http://florin.syr.edu/webarch/searchpro/
boolean_tutorial.html
http://home.sprintmail.com/~debflanagan/
main.html Finding It Online: Web Search
Strategies
http://infomine.ucr.edu/ for academic
information
http://members.home.net/albeej/ Needle
in a Cyberstack Web Directory
http://nuevaschool.org/~debbie/library/r
esearch/adviceengine.html categorized by
the type of search For example, general
information, maps, biographical
information, etc.
http://websearch.about.com/internet/webs
earch/
http://www.alltheweb.com Fast
Search/Alltheweb
http://WWW.ALTAVISTA.COM/
http://www.askjeeves.com Ask Jeeves
http://www.beaucoup.com/engbig.html
Beaucoup
http://www.deja.com/usenet DejaNews for
searching Usenet
http://www.directhit.com Direct Hit
http://WWW.DOGPILE.COM/
http://www.ebig.com / Britannica
Internet Search Engine
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Column/9
885/12__search_engines.htm Mr. K's lists
of search engines for research
http://www.google.com Google
http://www.inference.com/ Inference Find
does a parallel (meta) search of other
search engines
http://www.infind.com/ Inference Find
http://WWW.METACRAWLER.COM/index.html
http://www.northernlight.com Northern
Light
http://www.oingo.com Oingo
http://www.searchengineguide.org Search
engine guide
http://www.searchengines.net Search
engines net
http://www.surfwax.com/servlet/home
SurfWax
http://www.teleport.com/~skerlin/search.
html For search engines information
(including a wide range of guides on
effective use of search engines)
http://www.web-search.com/

This site gives you about 10 search
engines.  The librarian presented at a
conference I went to .  Look over her
entire website.  Lots of good stuff
we can use on it.
http://www.roadway.com/shippers/sbrc_1.h
tml

 http://www.lookoff.com/

The best one I know is
www.searchenginewatch.com
It has reports
rating various search engines as well as
an e-mail newsletter that you
can subscribe to.
http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/cu
rrent.html

http://www.mindspring.com/~el-announce/

Kathy Schrock's
(http://school.discovery.com/schrockguid
e/ ), I found a new one this week that
is very good.  It's

http://home.sprintmail.com/~debflanagan/
main.html
There are lots of other good sites too,
but I liked Deb Flanagan's for a good
over all view.

I have some sites linked from this
address:
http://www.n-polk.k12.ia.us/Pages/Depart
ments/Media/eval.html

Another excellent site is "Choosing the
Best Search Engine for your Purpose"
which organizes websites by what you are
looking for. the address is as follows:
http://nuevaschool.org/%7Edebbie/library
/research/adviceengine.html

http://www.foley.gonzaga.edu/search.html
This site provides links to some sites
that have done
comparisons of many of the most popular
search
engines.

http://www.baylor.edu/Library/BeyondLib/
SrchEngEval.html
This site provides a list of criteria
that can be used
to evaluate newly-developed search
engines.

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~bwp2/isearch3.ht
ml
This site provides a list of criteria
for evaluating
search engines in general.

http://inforpeople.org/scr/chart.html

For your students I'd recommend tools
such as kids click - It also gives
reading levels so staff will find it
valuable too
http://sunsite.berlkely.edu/kidsclick

Classroom Connect magazine has
information about tools in the most
recent
issue that may be of interest.

Kathy Schrock has referenced a lot of
useful stuff research engines at
www.school.discovery.com/schrockguide/yp
/iypsrch.html
I use it frequently to get updated on
search engines.

http://www.zdnet.com/searchiq/

http://www.zdnet.com/searchiq/news-se/in
dex.html

http://www.sosig.ac.uk/desire/internet-d
etective.html



Terrie Hinojosa
Baker 6th Grade Campus
LaPorte, Texas
hinojosa_baker@yahoo.com



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