Thomas F. Saffell Library
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How to Use the Web

Learning to Use the Web
Search Engines
Lists of Links by Subject
Indexes to Articles
Access to Some Old Removed Pages
More Search Engines

Learning to Use the Web

Need a dictionary to check keywords for searching? http://www.m-w.com/

Learn more about how to use the Web (U. of Cal. Berkeley)
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/BeyondWeb.html

Suggestions for selecting Web searching tools
American Library Association (LITA)
Noodle Tools
U. of Cal. Berkeley

Preferred Search Engines

Google http://www.google.com

Vivismo (meta search on several engines) http://vivisimo.com/
   We recommend this puppy over Dogpile.

Kart00 (for a really different view of the information http://www.kartoo.com/

For pages dropped from the web, the WayBackMachine:
http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/XJ&sdn=websearch&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.archive.org%2F

Preferred Classified Lists of Sites

Internet Public Library WWW Subject Guides http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/
Librarians Index to the Internet http://www.lii.org/
Librarian's Index http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/
Infomine http://infomine.ucr.eduMost Popular Classified List

A popular classified list and portal http://www.yahoo.com

Index to Full Text Articles on the Web

Find Articles. (Many are free, many others require payment to view) URL http://www.findarticles.com/

Archives of Old Removed Web Pages

The Internet Archive WayBackMachine http://www.archive.org/

Google (if you click on an item on a  google results page and the link is not available, try clicking on the cashed option -- it is located in the same paragraph below the main link) http://www.google.com

Other Search Engines

Internet Public Library WWW searching guide http://www.ipl.org/div/websearching/

Alltheweb http://www.alltheweb.com/ (A large fast search engine)

Ixquick http://www.ixquick.com/ (Search many search tools at one time – a “meta search” engine)