Web search engines and search tips
Search engines
- AltaVista
- AltaVista Australia
- Google image search - search the web for images
- Anzwers - Australia and NZ
- Web Wombat - Australian
- Sensis - Australian
Meta search engines
- Dogpile - metasearch
- HotBot
- Metacrawler
- Meta Eureka
- Search.com
- Webcrawler
- Yahoo
Subject directories
The following search engines specialise in searching online content from web sites with databases, an often 'invisible' part of the web:
- Beyond the Black Stump - Australian directory with some international content
- Arts & Humanities Data Service - UK service
- Virtual Learning Resources Center - searches 'quality' internet reference and information sources
Web search tutorials
- Internet detective
- Becoming Webwise
- Finding Information on the Internet - Berkeley tutorial
- Learn the Internet
- Recommended Search Engines - Berkeley
- Search Engine Watch
- Searchtools.com
- Toolkit for the expert web searcher
- Search Engines on the Internet - Australian National University
- Search the internet: a graduated approach in three steps - from UC Berkeley
Please contact the Library if there are broken links.
Suggestions for new sites are always welcome.
Last updated 13 May 2011
