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"Perhaps the two most valuable and satisfactory products of American civilization are the librarian on the one hand and the cocktail in the other."
Louis Stanley Jast
Librarian
Louis Stanley Jast
Librarian
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Findlaw (directory organized for legal research, good for finding primary legal material, like codes, court decisions quickly) Catalaw (searchable index of about law-related indexes) ALSO (use to locate state and territorial legal information) Hieros Gamos (directory of legal and governmental sites) All Law (index of legal tools, organized by subject) Public Legal (index of over 4000 law-related web sites) |
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Altavista (performs full-text indexing, and has Boolean capabilities in the power search window) Ask (divides results by type, provides options for narrowing searches) Clusty (clusters the results by type) Google (simple, fast, don't forget the Advanced Search features) Librarians' Internet Index (directory of Internet sources that are arranged by subject and evaluated by librarians) Yahoo (simple, fast, lots of pop culture information) |
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Dogpile (searches several medium and large Web search and index guides with a single search) Ixquick (searches several popular search engines at one time; it removes duplicates from the results list) Metacrawler (searches about twelve different search engines with each search, removes duplicates) My Way (searches only Ask, Google and Yahoo, no advertisements) Surf Wax (simple, clean display for search results, includes blog and Wikipedia searching) |
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Choose the Best (hints on which is the best search engine for the job) Search Engine Guide (list of search engines, also has news and other information about search engines) Search Engine Watch (list of major search engines, ratings and statistics) Search Engine Showdown (list of advanced search features, news and reviews) |
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