Last week's Technology Tip of the Week, provided you with an important Internet search tool guide concerning basic search engine logic operators. This can be considered the How to Search part of Internet searching. A second essential part of the search process is to possess the knowledge of Where to Search for the best possibilities for quick finds. In this week's tip, we will show you which search engine sites are best suited for your search interests.
Tip #22: Internet Resources - A Search Tool Guide - Part II
| Topic | |||
| Browse for a broad topic | Yahoo www.yahoo.com |
About-The Human Internet www.miningco.com |
Lycos www.lycos.com |
| Browse for a narrow topic | Excite www.excite.com |
AltaVista www.altavista.com |
Google www.google.com |
| Search largest amt of the Net | Ask Jeeves www.askjeeves.com |
Metacrawler www.metacrawler.com |
Profusion (Intelliseek) www.profusion.com |
| Browse for Educational Resources | Schrock's Guide school.discovery.com/ schrockguide |
Education Planet www.educationplanet.com |
Blue Web'n www.kn.pacbell.com/ wired/bluewebn/ |
| Browse for specific databases | Research-It! www.itools.com/ research-it |
Switchboard (people) www.switchboard.com | MapQuest (places) www.mapquest.com |
| Search for educ reviews and materials | Sunsations www.itrc.ucf.edu/ sunsations |
EvaluTech www.evalutech.sreb.org | FREE www.ed.gov/free |
NOTE: This chart was developed by the SouthEast Initiatives Regional Technology in Education Consortium (SEIR-TEC). More of their services are available on-line for downloading through: http://www.seirtec.org
Special thanks to Mrs. Barbara Capralos for this week's tip suggestion.
