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Simple Strategy:

  1. Visit the search tool site and carefully examine the features on its front page;
  2. Determine what type of search tool you are working with. Is it a subject directory, search engine or meta-search engine, searching utility?
  3. Visit the help or tips or about page. What are the "secrets" of the search tool?
  4. Carefully examine and evaluate the search tool so that you know its best and worst features;
  5. Is there a place for expert searchers? What special features does it offer?
  6. Are there any other special features? (image searching? translation? subject trees?)
  7. How are results organized and displayed? Are there summaries? Annotations? Keywords?
  8. Are the first two or three pages of results highly relevant?
  9. Try at least two searches to "road test" your search tool.


7 Step:

minus plus star
quotes
lower case link: title:
-exclude
+include
wildcard*
"phrases in quotes"
case MATTERS
find pages linked
find words in the title





 

Subject Directories
Use a subject directory when you are beginning your search and don't know a lot about the topic.  Subject directories link you to websites chosen by humans (not by software, as some search engines find websites), and these humans are often experts in their fields.

The Invisible Web
The Invisible or Deep Web consists of subscription Databases that generally can't be accessed through search engines. You can, however, find these rich materials by using the following special search tools.

Horizontal Searching
Horizontal search tools automatically organize your "hits" into categories, helping you eliminate irrelevant sites. For example, sites on Washington, DC, will be separated from sites on George Washington. Traditional search engines are vertical tools, as they give you long lists of hits to sort through. You might start with a horizontal search engine to become familiar with your topic and then move on to a vertical search engine like Google to complete your search.

Adapted From Parstimes.com

Google in Farsi
Google Web Directory in Farsi

Search
Comparison Among Internet Search Engines
Search Engine Showdown
Search Engine Watch
Search Engine Guide

General Search Engines
AllTheWeb
AltaVista
Ask Jeeves
AOL
CNET
Daypop (News & Weblogs)
Direct Hit
Excite
Fast Search (AllTheWeb)
Go.com
Gigablast
Google
HotBot
iLOR
Inktomi
iWon
Jayde
LookSmart
Lycos
MSN
Netscape
Northern Light
Oingo (Meaning Based Search)
Open Driectory Project (DMOZ)
Overture
ProFusion
Proteus
Rocket News
Scrub the Web
Teoma
Wayback Machine
WebCrawler
WiseNut
Yahoo

 

International Search Engines
DeepIndex
France Moteur
Kartoo
Nomade (France)
Swiss Search Engine
Swiss Guide
The Engine Rooms (UK)
Web.De
Voila (France)

 

Search Directories
AllSearchEngines
Internet Quick Reference: Searching the Web
Search Engine Colossus
W3 Search Engines (Over 100 Search Engines)
Whitelines.net (Int. Search Engines)
World Jump

 

Meta Search Engines
Bytedog
Debriefing
Dogpile
Ixquick
Mama
MetaEureka,
Metacrawler
Search Bug
Search the Links
SurfWax
Vivísimo

 

Specialized Search
ArchiePlex (FTP Search)
IMDB (Movies)
Rocketinfo (News)
Topica (Internet Mailing Lists)
DMOZ Specialized Search Index
Searchmil.com (Military Computers)
Virtual Search Engines - 1,000 Specialized Search Engines

 

Image Search Engines
Altavista
Corbis
Ditto
Google
Lycos
Picsearch
Proteus
Yahoo! Image Search

 

Reference & Subject Directories
About.com
Awesome Library
Best Information on the Internet
Bulblink (Social Sciences)
Cyberstacks
Digital Librarian
Electronic Reference Shelf (Butler Library - Columbia University)
Google Directory
Google Reference
Humbul Humanities Hub
The Internet Public Library
Librarians' Index to the Internet (Berkeley)
Martindale's The Reference Desk
Megasources: Information for Journalists and Researchers
NY Times Navigator
Ready Reference Sites
Regard (Social Science Research)
Reference Works
Refdesk.com
RefTools
Search Systems (searchable public record databases)
Social Science Information Gateway
Spire Project, The
THOR: The Virtual Reference Desk (Purdue University Libraries)
Virtual LRC
Virtual Library
Virtual Reference Desk
Xrefer
Yahoo Reference Directory
Yahoo Reference
 

See Links to Dictionaries and Translation Sites :

  1. Aquarius Directory of Translators and Interpreters
  2. AltaVista Translations
  3. AltaVista: Translations
  4. Dictionary (Websters)
  5. travlang's Translating Dictionaries
  6. Leo's German/ English Dict.
  7. Yahoo! Reference:Dictionaries:Language
  8. Japanese <-> English Dictionary Server
  9. Jeffrey's Japanese<->English Dictionary - Gateway
  10. English as a 2nd Lang.
  11. Dictionary of Internet Abbreviations
  12. ARTFL Project: French-English Dictionary Form
  13. ARTFL Project: Webster Search Form
  14. Dictionnaire Larousse
  15. Internet Smileys.... ^_^
  16. Japanese <-> English Dictionary Server
  17. Multilingual Mini Library Glossary
  18. Online Dictionaries and Translators
  19. ALEX
  20. Go translator service
  21. DVD - PC Webopaedia Definition and Links
  22. Online Dictionary of Computing
  23. Computing Dictionary
  24. Webster Dictionary
  25. DICTIONARIES
  26. Translation Software
  27. Global Translation Alliance
  28. Britannica.com
  29. helwig's smiley dictionary
  30. Dictionary.com
  31. Spacesearch - the public search tool
  32. A Web of On-line Dictionaries
  33. FIU Libraries Internet Resources for Online Dictionaries and Translation Assistance
  34. FreeTranslation.com
  35. Language and Translation links
  36. Dictionaries by language
  37. The Human-Languages Page
  38. The Internet Dictionary Project: Search the IDP
  39. The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  40. WWWebster Dictionary - Search screen
  41. WWWebster Dictionary - Search
  42. Webster Dictionary
  43. WWWebster Thesaurus - Search
  44. Glossary of Internet Terms
  45. NetLingo The Internet Language Dictionary
  46. The Count Dictionary (jp)
  47. OneLook Dictionaries (Dictionary), The Faster Finder
  48. 200 plus Dictionaries and Glossaries to Browse
  49. OneLook Dictionaries
  50. More Dictionaries
  51. Biographical Dictionary
  52. Internet Oracle Online Translation Dictionaries
  53. Searchspot.com: Your spot for translating web pages.
  54. Ethnolog
  55. SYSTRAN Homepage
  56. Roget's Thesaurus
  57. TRADOS Homepage
  58. Translation Experts (natural language translation software)
  59. InterTran (tm) - translate between 676 language pairs!
  60. PROMT's Online Translator
  61. PROMT's Online Translator
  62. Foreign Languages for Travelers (text-mode)
  63. Acronym lookup
  64. Acronym lookup
  65. Liste translationsrelevante Software
  66. Wordbot home page
  67. Use Online Translation Services
  68. e-lingo - We Translate the Internet
  69. e-lingo - We Translate the Internet
  70. Transtech Online Dictionaries, Glossaries and Other References
  71. Transtech Home Page

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