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Research Assistance on the web
Need some material to add to your knowledge? Try one of these to search for what you want:
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Just enter your keywords and be prepared for lots of 'hits'. Refine your search by checking the site's syntax rules for searching and try again. |
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Ranks the sites by how many 'importants' sites are linked to it. Means that new and specialist sites will have a low ranking. Billions of pages and very fast though. |
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Quick and clean with simple search but has advanced settings."Highly recommended" .net magazine |
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Powerful and popular. Can be slow and has a fair smattering of items cluttering up its page. |
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Alta Vista's stripped to the bone search site using the same referal system as Google. Customizable settings. |
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A very busy page and you must search for the search engine part of it. |
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You need to ask 'proper' questions in plain English to get results. |
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Oingo attempts to interpret your question. It works extremely well if you enter the context for each key word |
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Try this if new to searching |
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Including 'UK' as a keyword can help to filter out unwanted foreign sites. As an alternative use these native sites |
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Good, comprehensive and British |
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All sites are hand-picked & reviewed. |
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The renamed 'SearchUK' site.concentrates on UK sites and allows you to filter out commercial from academic and government sites. |
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If you understand it let me know. |
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Many directories are slapdash (I am told) try these better ones |
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Garners its results from the same people as 'All the Web' and its index from 'Open Directory' |
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A network of specialists writing about and linking to their subjects. There is also a co.uk site with excellent local knowledge |
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Unpaid editors attempt to list sites free of commercial influence. Used by several named search engines. |
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The original. Has an exceptional hierarchical index. |
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Aims to "index and classify all human knowledge to a consistent standard..." |
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If searching for UK information specific information is good why not try these for the non-UK information. |
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Looking for Oz related items? This is the place. |
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Can search for global items as well. |
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Includes news, travel, business, etc. |
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Can be better. |
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Mainly European sites and multilingual. |
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Try these, they search several engines at once. |
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Great site. Uses up to 14 engines and customised searches are good. |
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Customisable. |
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Quick |
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No need to open up a browser - it operates from your Desktop. Non-onfigurable. |
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Looking for very specific info? Read on |
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Aimed at students at home and abroad. Emphasis, as you would expect, is on academia. |
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Search out ailments in depth. |
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A search engine for cheese. 652 listed to date. |
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Lists the best curry houses. |
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A fave of many OU students |
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These are where company's pay to be included. A bit dubious maybe. |
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Dedicated sites for kids who want to find things and parents who dont want them to find certain things. |
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American but never-the-less comprehensive |
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Searches one search engine at a time |
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Great site |
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Not a geniune search engine admittedly. |
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An easy way to track down music, etc. |
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Music, images and video |
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An MP3 meta searcher. Being redeveloped. |
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MP3 searches |
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Image search |
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Specifically for news seaching. News sites that are searchable |
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Professional site. Alongside the headlines are 300+ specific categories. |
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Not as comprehensive as Moreover but good breadth. |
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Browsable by time period. Upto 30 days ago. |
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What more do I need to say? Its the Beeb. |
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