Recommended by
Robert Berkman, author of "Find It Fast: How to Uncover Expert Information
on Any Subject"
| Yahoo, BUBL Link | Hierarchical indexes maintained by teams of essentially selective categorizers--useful if you have a pretty good idea what you're looking for |
| Altavista, Excite, Go Network, Hotbot | Standard search engines with databases stocked by software "robots" or "spiders"--useful if you do NOT have a pretty good idea what you're looking for |
| Northern Light | Alternative search engine which sorts the pages it finds into categories and then groups the results into folders, thus helping you narrow down your search |
| Ask Jeeves | Type a question in plain English and Ask Jeeves will try to match it with previous questions asked by other users, and then list the questions that are close to matching yours |
| Ranks each page as to its popularity by basing its findings on how many other pages link to it--and how many of those pages have links to them in turn. It works! | |
| Oingo | Conducts a conceptual search based on a user's request by helping the user narrow down their search keyword(s) if the topic is unduly broad |
| Dogpile, Inference Find, Metacrawler | Meta search engines that use other search engines to help in handling a user's request |
| The Big Hub, The EdIndex | Web site databases devoted to specific topics, such as Education or Media, where the user has a high likelihood of finding relevant information |