Meta Search Engines & Crawlers

A Meta crawler or search engine doesn't search the web for your topic - instead it gathers responses from other search engines and compiles results from multiple programs. You ask your question once, and essentially get multiple answers back. Depending on the meta program, it may query anywhere from 6 to 20 different search engines. Some meta programs have been around for years, and like all search programs the older ones have evolved and new ones have joined the ranks.

My personal favorite is Vivisimo http://vivisimo.com/ - type in your topic, Vivisimo not only returns your results sorted by relevancy, but also sorts them into folders called "Clustered Results" that organize your search into more specific sub-categories.

http://www.dogpile.com/ Dogpile: All the best search engines piled into one. If you haven't seen this one in awhile, they've really improved the look and results display. You can choose between compiled results or displaying by individual search engines. Dogpile was the #1 meta choice by SearchEngineWatch.com - and it's cute !

http://www.ixquick.com/ Ixquick searches 12 search engines, uses stars to indicate top rankings, and has easy limit or expand features.

http://www.mamma.com/ Founded in 1996, Mamma is one of the oldest meta search engines on the web. Mamma searches against a variety of major crawlers, directories and specialty search sites.

If you want to know more about Meta Searches, take a look at Searchenginewatch.com for articles, ratings, and the latest on finding your way around the web.

Best of History Web Sites

Best of History Web Sites - besthistorysites.net - is an award-winning portal created for history teachers, students, and general history enthusiasts. BOHWS contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites as well links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more throughout its pages.
Best of History Web Sites is ranked #1 by Google for "history web sites" and receives upwards of 98,000 visitors per month.
Find the best sites for:

• Prehistory
• Ancient/Bibical
• Medieval
• U.S. History
• Early Modern European
• 20th Century
• World War II
• Art History
• Maps

Librarians' Index to the Internet

Search engines, portals, directories, crawlers - lots of ways to find information online, and one of the very best is Librarians' Index to the Internet
The mission of Librarians' Index to the Internet (LII) is to provide a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy, librarian-selected Internet resources, serving California, the nation, and the world.
Search LII With Confidence
Our motto: "Information You Can Trust." LII offers two services: a searchable, browsable collection of over 16,000 high-quality Websites, and a weekly newsletter, available by email or RSS, of high-quality Websites related to current events, holidays, and popular and important issues.
LII began in the early 1990s at Berkeley Public Library and now resides at UC Berkeley. Partner programs include Wested.org and Washington State University
Whether you're looking for literary criticisms, political information, science issues, social sciences resources and more, lii.org will easily guide you to top-rated online resources. Subscribe for free to LII New This Week, a weekly newsletter of the most recent resources added to the Librarians' Index to the Internet. Be sure to bookmark this site for future searches !

PC Magazine: Top 100 Web Sites

Looking for some good websites ? Check out PC Magazines Spring 2005 listing of the Top 100 Sites you didn't know you couldn't live without.

Categories include

• Education, Information & Reference
• WWW Search & Portals
• Computing
• News, Sports, & Entertainment
• Security
• Travel
• Lifestyle
• Music, Photos, & Art
• Shopping
• Fun, Games & Oddities

And don't overlook their Top 100 Classics section - note the "Table of Contents" on the right side of the Classic page.

CyberTimes Navigator

From the New York Times CyberTimesNavigator

"For more than 10 years, the Newsroom Navigator has been used by New York Times reporters and editors as the starting point for their forays onto the Web. Its primary intent is to give the news staff a solid starting point for a wide range of journalistic functions without forcing all of them to spend time wandering around to find a useful set of links of their own. The list is by its nature highly selective and constantly changing."

AFI's Top 100 Movie Quotes

What movie lines are your favorites?
AFI, the American Film Institute adds another catagory to their fascinating website with their list of the 100 greatest movie quotes of all time. Televised on 6/21, its now posted on their site - check it out and see where "may the force be with you", "make my day" and "make him an offer he can't refuse" are on the list ! 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes
and while you're there, check out their other 100 year lists of Heroes & Villains, Songs, Laughs, Thrills and more !

eBooks at TCC Library

Ebooks now listed in TCC's Online Catalog !

Search by author, title or subject in our online catalog and your results list will include books, videos, dvds, cataloged websites, and now 1,000+ eBooks ! eBooks are digital full-text versions of published works.
For an example of an eBook entry click Database Nation: the Death of Privacy in the 21st Century

For an example of both print and electronic web sources, click 9/11 Commission Report