| Subject Directories offer a collection of links to Internet resources submitted by site creators or evaluators and organized into subject categories. Most directories offer a search engine mechanism to query the service so we have listed some as both directories and search engines. |
| BUBL Link |
a subject directory of carefully selected and annotated resources from the University of Strathclyde Library in Glasgow, Scotland |
| Digital Librarian |
a librarian's choice of the best of the Web, arranged by subject, Digital Librarian is maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson |
| Infomine |
a large subject directory of scholarly Internet resources collectively maintained by libraries of the University of California offering many search and retrieval options |
| KidsClick! |
a subject directory "created by a bunch of librarians" and managed by the Ramapo Catskill Library System |
| Librarians' Index to the Internet |
a well-organized, selective, and continually updated subject directory maintained by a large number of indexers in California - "the thinking person's Yahoo" |
| LibrarySpot |
a free virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information |
| The WWW Virtual Library |
the first subject directory on the Web, with a number of comprehensive, well-annotated subject collections maintained by experts around the world |
| Yahoo |
Largest subject database on the World Wide Web with broad but unevaluated subject coverage. It does not evaluate for quality or accuracy and misses some high quality sites. Searches only the title and the short descriptive blurb about the site. |
| Yahooligans |
Yahoo for younger students. |
| Search Engines are searchable database of Internet files collected by a computer program (called a wanderer, crawler, robot, worm, spider). Indexing is created from the collected files, e.g., title, full text, size, URL, etc. There is no selection criteria for the collection of files. |
| Alta Vista |
a search engine that offers both a Simple and a Power Search with numerous searchable fields including language. It also offers spell checking, and answers questions stated in plain English. But: beware of AltaVista's questionable relevancy ranking. |
| Ask Jeeves |
a search engine that lets you ask a question in plain English and view a list of categorized results offered as relevant to your question - no searching rules to learn! |
| Britannica.com |
although small, Britannica searches and brings back quality Web sites, magazine articles, related books, and articles from the Encyclopedia Britannica;gives full descriptions and star ratings |
| Dogpile |
a metasearch service that integrates several medium and large Web search and index guides into a single service. It also provides a single launching point for stock quotes, usenet articles, weather forecasts, yellow pages, and more. |
| Google |
returns important, relevant hits quickly (pages are cached), with terms matched in close proximity and bolded in the results. Decides importance and value based on pages that link to that page. |
| Hotbot |
a good choice for media, geographic, and date searching. It offers a convenient user fill-in template that easily handles complex searches. |
| Lycos |
one of the smaller search engine databases on the Internet with 30 million Web pages indexed. Power Search allows you to control the factors of relevancy ranking. |
| Search.com |
a metasearch engine that uses more than 700 other engines to do a search. You can narrow by subject before searching. |
| Webcrawler |
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| Yahoo |
Largest subject database on the World Wide Web with broad but unevaluated subject coverage. It does not evaluate for quality or accuracy and misses some high quality sites. Searches only the title and the short descriptive blurb about the site. |
| Yahooligans |
Yahoo for younger students. |
