NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER NET SEARCH LINKS
Searching the Net? Here Are Places to Start
This is the list of search sites and descriptions of the sites
that the New York Times
provides to its reporters.
- Google
gives terrific results by analyzing a page's popularity. It now includes
the search of Usenet discussions
as well as a government search
and an image search. (Maine AFL-CIO
Note: this site also has a "news" tab at the top of the home page.
In the news search box type in "labor unions AFL-CIO" and you will
get thousands of hits of labor news stories).
- Alta
Vista offers efficient Web search; its no-frills text
search loads faster.
- Yahoo:
Subject guide and free-text searching of the World Wide Web, and many
other services
- All
the Web, from Fast Search, is quick and simple
- Ask
Jeeves searching with a human touch
- Ixquick
searches multiple search engines and quickly returns filtered results.
- ProFusion,
Excite, Dogpile,
CNet Search.com and Metacrawler
simultaneously search different combinations of multiple Web search
engines
- Hotbot
now comes to you from Lycos
- Looksmart
searches selected sites reviewed by humans, but emphasizes those who pay
for placement.
- About.com
has humans who assemble mini-sites on a wide variety of topics.
- Britannica
adds human judgment to searching, and presents the results in an
unusually effective way
- Searchmil.com
searches for information in military (.mil) computers
- Achoo
and The Hardin Meta Directory
catalog health related sites
- Topica
and Tile.Net will help you find
Internet mailing lists Guide to live events on the Web
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