Searching the Internet!
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.
This is a directory of Irish websites. The sites are evaluated by people.
These are sites to which you can submit your website for inclusion in a website directory.
This is a 'second generation search engine. It ranks results based on quality links to the sites.
The following site will perform a 'concept processing' of your search. In other words it will interpret your search request.
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.'
These are subject directories that are compiled by experts, based on the sites that are submitted to them.
This site has a free web search service. However, you can also pay for a premium search service which is provided by experts.
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.
The following sites are leeches that suck information from other search engines.
I am also including the
following link even though at the time of writing the site
is out of service. |
The following sites are child-safe search engines with databases that only contain material that is suitable for children.
Finally, here is a child-safe metacrawler (run by the same people as run 'askjeeves.'
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