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Search Engines & Directories

Tutorials and Guides

Bare Bones 101 - A basic tutorial on searching the web.

FINDSPOT - Guide to using search engines.

Search Engine Tutorials - Tutorials provided through Search Engine Watch.

Search Engines (Robot compiled databases which offer full text keyword searching of the web pages that have been indexed.)

Excite - A property of AskJeeves Incorporated, features comprehensive search tools, a Webmail platform and content and resources from over 100 providers.

Google - Provides access to more than 8 billion web pages.

Google Scholar - Allows for searching scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research, links to full text and libraries that hold the materials.

Teoma - Delivers three responses to one search: results, relevant web pages, and suggestions to narrow your search.

Meta Search Engines (Services that search several search engines at once and bring back compiled results.)

Ask Jeeves - Allows users to ask questions in natural language.

Clusty - Vivisimo powered clustering tool that includes a section on government.

Dogpile - “Fetches" results from About, Ask Jeeves, FindWhat, LookSmart, Google,. Teoma , Yahoo! and other popular search engines.

Ixquick - Finds sites internationally ranked as the top ten.

Vivisimo - Automatically categorizes search results into hierarchical clusters.

Directories (Editor-selected sites arranged in hierarchical subject categories.)

Bartleby.com - Literature, reference and great books online.

Citation Machine - Builds citations in MLA and APA formats.

Florida Memory Project - Provides educational resources and makes available collections for historical research .from the collections of the State Archives of Florida.

InfoPlease - World’s largest free reference site.

Internet Public Library - An online library run by students from the College of Information at the University of Michigan.

LeRoy Collins Leon County Public Library - Homepage of Tallahassee public library and branches.

Redligthtgreen - An online catalog to locate scholarly books covering a wide range of topics.

Refworks - Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows users to create personal databases by importing references from text files or online databases.

State Library & Archives of Florida - central repository for the archives of Florida’s state history.

Wikepedia - A free encyclopedia with content provided from around the world.