NANOSCALE
GUIDE TO POWER TOOLS FOR ONLINE RESEARCH
Presentation for the San Jose IBM PC Club -
August 10, 2004
John Hogle - jjhogle@yahoo.com
INFORMATION COMES IN ALL TYPES, SHAPES, SIZES, MEDIA, AND DELIVERY METHODS
SIZE MATTERS
SEARCH FUNCTIONALITY
THAT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW
WHAT YOU PERSONALLY
NEED TO DO
SEARCH ENGINES - SELECT
"ADVANCED" FROM THE BASIC PAGE
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google.com | Billions of Web pages plus other files. |
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alltheweb.com | Billions of Web pages plus other files. |
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altavista.com | Smaller but still powerful. |
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teoma.com | Smaller but still powerful. |
METASEARCH TOOLS - SEARCHES MULTIPLE SEARCH ENGINES (BUT NOT AS WELL) - EXAMPLES
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vivisimo.com | Clusters results into subject folders. |
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surfwax.com | Also uses some "deep" Web databases. |
INTERNET INDEXES - MANUALLY CREATED AND SMALLER THAN SEARCH ENGINES - EXAMPLES
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infomine.ucr.edu | Academic index from UC Riverside Library. |
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lii.org | Index assembled by volunteer librarians. |
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dmoz.org | Largest index created by volunteers. |
HIDDEN INTERNET/WEB -ALL TYPES OF SEARCHABLE DATABASES & OTHER "HIDDEN" INFORMATION.
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completeplanet.com | 70K+ databases and specialized search tools. |
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archive.org | Archiving the entire Internet/Web. |
SPECIALIZED SEARCH TOOLS - EXAMPLES
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citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ | Part of the movement to putting primary, quality peer-reviewed research information on the Web. |
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google.com | Claims over 800 million images in its database. |
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alltheweb.com | |
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alltheweb.com | |
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altavista.com | |
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google.com | Remember Deja News? This is it reborn. |
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froogle.com | A price search engine using Google's database. |
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catalog.google.com | Full page images of over 1500 print catalogs are online and searchable. |
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shopper.com | An example of a shopping bot. |
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bookfinder.com | A shopping bot for books. |
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merriam-webster.com | Dictionaries and more. |
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wikipedia.org | Cooperative, giant encyclopedia in many languages. Will it replace Britannica? Be critical of the quality. |
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infoplease.com | The full text of the almanac online with other resources. |
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bartleby.com | A variety of useful resources. |
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www.nlm.nih.gov | Your federal tax dollars doing good in the best medical database around. |
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findlaw.com | Links to numerous legal databases & other resources. |
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bankrate.com | Find the best loan, savings, money market, CD rates. |
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morningstar.com | Find and analyze the mutual funds best suited to your goals and attitudes. |
COMMERCIAL DATABASES
Quality, edited material at your fingertips. Most libraries subscribe to several databases.
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sjlibrary.org | You can get 30 or so databases just with a SJPL card, but at the King Library itself, you can access 100-200 different databases because of SJSU subscriptions. |
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highbeam.com | Sometimes information is worth paying for. |
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findarticles.com | Sometimes it is free. |
LIBRARIES - WANT TO GET AS MANY AS FIVE MILLION DIFFERENT BOOKS AT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY?
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lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html | |
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searchengineshowdown.com |
FINAL ADVICE