Searching the Internet!

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Search Engines and Directories

For this programme, the guest in studio was Declan Delaney who is a lecturer in computer science at NUI, Maynooth.

This is a popular, commercial search engine and directory. The sites are evaluated by people.

http://www.yahoo.com

http://www.excite.com

This is a directory of Irish websites. The sites are evaluated by people.

http://www.doras.ie

These are sites to which you can submit your website for inclusion in a website directory.

http://www.submitit.com

http://www.selfpromotion.com

This is a 'second generation search engine. It ranks results based on quality links to the sites.

http://www.google.com

The following site will perform a 'concept processing' of your search. In other words it will interpret your search request.

http://www.oingo.com

This site will explain the invisible web. These are websites that are invisible to the 'spiders' that most search engines use to find websites on the world wide web. Declan prefers to call it the 'deep web.'

http://www.invisibleweb.com

These are subject directories that are compiled by experts, based on the sites that are submitted to them.

http://www.vlib.org

http://dmoz.org

This site has a free web search service. However, you can also pay for a premium search service which is provided by experts.

http://www.northernlight.com

The following search engine allows you to put in a question in 'plain' English and it will interpret the question and give you a range of possible answers.

http://www.askjeeves.com

The following sites are leeches that suck information from other search engines.

http://www.metacrawler.com

http://www.mamma.com

I am also including the following link even though at the time of writing the site is out of service.
http://www.infind.com

The following sites are child-safe search engines with databases that only contain material that is suitable for children.

http://www.yahooligans.com

http://www.searchopolis.com

http://www.studyweb.com

Finally, here is a child-safe metacrawler (run by the same people as run 'askjeeves.'

http://www.ajkids.com

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