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MESMS Online Subscription Databases Before you begin searching the Internet, always check our online subscription databases for reliable, easy to find info!

The Spider's Apprentice provides good information about the way search engines work along with search engine ratings

http://www.monash.com/spidap.html

KidsClick Worlds of Searching provides great information on searching the Internet

http://www.rcls.org/wows/

Search engines: Traditional

Search the web using electronic robots or spiders to select results.

AltaVista (easy search for images)

    http://www.altavista.com

Brainboost actually finds answers to your questions posed in plain English
http://brainboost.com/

Google

    http://www.google.com

For simple advanced searches in Google, try Soople, a search page that simplifies Google's advanced search function. (This site is not affiliated with nor is it endorsed by Google.)

http://soople.com/

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.

http://scholar.google.com/

HighBeam provides excellent results for research. Select Documents, Images and Maps and Reference resources.

http://www.highbeam.com/library/index.asp

Search Engines: Metasearch

These search engines search many search engines at the same time

Beaucoup!

http://www.beaucoup.com/

Ixquick

http://ixquick.com/

Metacrawler

http://www.metacrawler.com/

Search engines: Visual Clustering

This new breed of search engine visually clusters results like a graphic organizer

Kartoo

http://www.kartoo.com/

Mooter

http://www.mooter.com/

Subject Directories:

Human editors review and select these sites and organize them by subject.

About

    http://www.about.com

Ask Jeeves

     http://www.ask.com

Ask Jeeves for Kids

     http:// www.askforkids.com

Awesome Library organizes the Web with 29,000 carefully
reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education. Specifically designed for use by teachers, kids, teens, parents, librarians and college students. 

http://www.awesomelibrary.org/

DMOZ Open Directory Project-Kids and Teens

The Kids and Teens Open Directory Project's goal is to produce the most comprehensive directory of the web for people under the age of 18, by relying on a vast army of volunteer editors

http://dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/

KidsClick

     http://www.kidsclick.org

Librarians Index to the Internet

http://lii.org/

LookSmart easy to navigate, quality results

http://search.looksmart.com/

Internet Public Library

http://www.ipl.org/

InfoSpace provides easy access to businesses, telephone books (yellow and white pages), and email directories

http://www.infospace.com

Yahoo

    http://www.yahoo.com

Yahooligans

    http://www.yahooligans.com

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Last updated: May 5, 2007 by Donna Baratta