WEB RESEARCH Before You Begin An Internet Search, Choose  the Appropriate  Search Engine and Brainstorm Possible Search Strings. Students, remember that you have signed a User Agreement promising to visit only appropriate web sites. Research Competition Questions Wikipedia's Mega-search List Student and School-Related Search  Engines General Search and MetaSearch Engines Pictures and Multimedia Search Engines Power Search Techniques ClassZone Web Research Online Lesson Landmark Citation Machine/Cite Generator Internet Explorer (5) In the Classroom    SEARCH ENGINES ESPECIALLY FOR STUDENTS AND SCHOOL-RELATED RESEARCH                      Kid's Search                                        GENERAL SEARCH AND METASEARCH ENGINES                                                                                                           SEARCH ENGINES FOR PICTURES AND MULTIMEDIA Every effort has been made to ensure that these sites are appropriate for middle school students. However, District Eleven makes no guarantee that all links to outside sites will be acceptable to parents and students.  Adults should monitor student internet use as a safety precaution. Students should never use the internet  without  parent and/or teacher permission. - click pictures, audio, or video - click images, video or mp3/audio - click multimedia MEGA-List of Search Engines From Wikipedia.com, the free encyclopedia General Alexa Internet Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves) Baidu (Chinese) Exalead Gigablast Google Live Search (formerly MSN Search) Sogou (Chinese) Sohu (Chinese) Yahoo! Search   Geographical limited scope Accoona, China/US Alleba, Philippines Ansearch, Australia/US/UK/NZ Araby, Middle East Baidu, China Daum, Korea Guruji.com, India Goo (search_engine), Japan Miner.hu, Hungary Najdi.si, Slovenia Naver, Korea Onkosh, Middle East Rambler, Russia Rediff, India SAPO, Portugal Search.ch, Switzerland Sesam, Norway, Sweden Walla!, Israel Yandex, Russia   Accountancy IFACnet   Business Business.com Nexis (Lexis Nexis) Thomasnet (United States)   Enterprise See also: Enterprise search AskMeNow: S3 - Semantic Search Solution Autonomy: IDOL Server, K2 Enterprise (formerly Verity), Ultraseek (formerly Verity) Dieselpoint: Search & Navigation dtSearch: dtSearch Engine(SDK), dtSearch Web Endeca: Information Access Platform Exalead: exalead one:enterprise Expert System S.p.A.: Cogito Fast Search & Transfer: Enterprise Search Platform (ESP), RetrievalWare (formerly Convera) Funnelback: Funnelback Search ISYS Search Software: ISYS:web, ISYS:sdk Microsoft: SharePoint Search Services Northern Light Open Text: Hummingbird Search Server, Livelink Search Oracle Corporation: Secure Enterprise Search 10g SAP: TREX TeraText: TeraText Suite Vivisimo: Vivisimo Clustering Engine ZyLAB Technologies: ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform   Search Appliances Google: Google Search Appliance   Job Main articles: Job search engine and Employment website See also: Category:Job search engines Bixee.com (India) CareerBuilder.com (USA) Craigslist (by city) Eluta.ca (Canada) Hotjobs.com (USA) Incruit (Korea) Indeed.com (USA) Monster.com (USA) Naukri.com (India) Recruit.net (International) SimplyHired.com (USA) TolMol.com (India)   Legal WestLaw Lexis (Lexis Nexis) Quicklaw   Medical Bioinformatic Harvester Entrez (includes Pubmed) EB-eye_EBI's_Search_Engine EMBL-EBI's Search engine GenieKnows GoPubMed (knowledge-based: GO - GeneOntology) Healia KMLE Medical Dictionary MeshPubMed (knowledge-based: MeSH - Medical Subject Headings) Searchmedica WebMD   News Google News MagPortal Newslookup Nexis (Lexis Nexis) Topix.net Yahoo! News   People Ex.plode.us InfoSpace Spock Wink Zabasearch.com ZoomInfo   Real property Home.co.uk Properazzi Rightmove Zillow.com   Video Games GenieKnows Wazap   By information type Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information   Forum Omgili   Blog Amatomu Bloglines BlogScope IceRocket Sphere Technorati   Multimedia See also: Multimedia search YouTube blinkx FindSounds Picsearch Podscope Veveo   Source code Google Code Search JExamples Koders Krugle   BitTorrent These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol. Btjunkie Demonoid FlixFlux Isohunt Mininova The Pirate Bay TorrentSpy   Email Nicado TEK   Maps Géoportail Google Maps MapQuest Windows Live Maps Yahoo! Maps   Price Google Product Search (formerly Froogle) Kelkoo MSN Shopping MySimon NexTag PriceGrabber PriceRunner Shopping.com ShopWiki Shopzilla (also operates Bizrate) TheFind.com TolMol.com (India)   Question and answer Answers.com AskMeNow AskWiki BrainBoost eHow Lexxe Lycos iQ Powerset Windows Live QnA Yahoo! Answers   By model   Open source search engines DataparkSearch Egothor Gonzui Grub Ht://dig Isearch Lucene Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine mnoGoSearch Namazu Nutch OpenFTS Sciencenet (for scientific knowledge, based on YaCy technology) Sphinx SWISH-E Terrier Search Engine Wikia Search Xapian YaCy Zettair   Social search engines See also: Social search, Relevance feedback, and Human search engine ChaCha Search Eurekster Mahalo.com Rollyo Wink provides web search by analyzing user contributions such as bookmarks and feedback How Do You Know If A Web Site is Trustworthy?   Use the CARS Checklist for Web Site Evaluation Copyright-Free Photo Search Copyright-Free Audio Search The Ultimate Guide to Advanced Searching   Mnemonic for Search Tricks  Many People Learn To Search Links Quickly   Many     (Minus and NOT)  Leaves something out!     This would find dolphin sites except those with the word bottlenose on them.  Note that NOT is capitalized with a space before and after, whereas - only has a space before. People     (Plus and AND) Add something in! This would find only dolphin sites that included the word freshwater.  The words may or not appear together or in the same context.  Notice that AND is capitalized with a space before and after, whereas + only has a space before. Learn (Lower Case) Find sites with all capital or lower case versions of my keyword! This would find all these results: olympian, Olympian, OLYMPIAN, or any other combination of case. To     (Title) Find only pages with this word in the title! This would find sites that were more narrowly focused on your topic because your keyword is in the name of the pages). Search     (Star    *     Wildcard) Find sites with different keyword endings, similar spellings, etc! This would find sites that contained travel, travels, travelled, traveling, travelling, traveler, traveller, and so on. This would find sites that contained type, typing, typist, typical, typed, typography, types, etc. Links     (Link) Find sites linked to this one! This would find any and all sites which were related to the one you like because it finds sites that are hyperlinked to www.examplesite.com, assuming you correctly typed in the address (URL) of the originating site. Quickly     (Quotes) Find these words only as a phrase!! This would find any sites that had this phrase.  You should not get results for either computer or literacy alone--just when they appear together. SEARCH TRICKS FROM GOOGLE About This Cheat Sheet     For more tips, tricks, & examples, visit www.GoogleGuide.com. By Nancy Blachman, Tasha Bergson-Michelson, & Jerry Peek who don't work for Google.  (A printable PDF version is available.) Basic Examples This Search   Finds Pages Containing... biking Italy   the words biking and Italy recycle steel OR iron   information on recycling steel or recycling iron "I have a dream"   the exact phrase I have a dream salsa –dance   the word salsa but NOT the word dance Louis +I France   information about Louis the First (I), weeding out other kings of France castle ~glossary   glossaries about castles, as well as dictonaries, lists of terms, terminology, etc. fortune-telling   all forms of the term, whether spelled as a single word, a phrase, or hyphenated define:imbroglio   definitions of the word imbroglio from the Web Calculator Operators   Meaning   Type Into Search Box (& Results) + – * /   basic arithmetic   12 + 34 - 56 * 7 / 8 % of   percentage of   45% of 39 ^ or **   raise to a power   2^5 or 2**5 old units in new units   convert units   300 Euros in USD, 130 lbs in kg, or 31 in hex Restrict Search Operators   Meaning   Type Into Search Box (& Results) site:   Search only one website or domain.   Halloween site:www.census.gov (Search for information on Halloween gathered by the US Census Bureau.) [#]..[#]   Search within a range of numbers.   Dave Barry pirate 2002..2006 (Search for Dave Barry articles mentioning