NWE Help: Web: Searching

NWE Home :: Help :: Web :: Searching

The following links will provide good list of web search services. If you're looking for a specific research tool for the humanities, try our literary links page. If you're not sure which one to try, try Google.

• Introduction:: Introduction to web (Internet) searching
• Search Types:: Searching resource types
• Search engines:: Robot/crawler-powered search engines
• Subject indexes:: General subject indexes
• Meta-search engines:: Meta-search engines
• NWE web search:: Local search engine (nwe.ufl.edu only)
• UF web search:: University of Florida web search engine (ufl.edu only)
• Domain names:: Searching the Internet's Domain name system
• Email/Phone Numbers:: Finding email addresses or phone numbers
• Email lists:: Catalogs of listserv and majordomo email lists
• Images & media:: Searching for images, audio, or video
• Others:: Other searching resources
• All of 'em:: Links to every search engine resource listed above

Individual search engines each query a different database of URLs and/or USENET news groups. Each database is assembled with different tools, so identical searches will return different results on Infoseek or Hotbot.