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Searching the Internet

Search Engines - General

Google

Google also contains a searchable subject directory and a searchable archive of Usenet Group postings.

Alta Vista

hotbot

lycos

MedHunt. Health related search engine that includes the sites evaluated by the Health on the Net Foundation.


Search Engines - Metasearchup

Metasearch engines search many other search engines at once to maximise coverage of the Web

Ask Jeeves! allows the use of natural language.

Dogpile. Dogpile can search Usenet, ftp sites and newswires as well as the Web.

FAST Web Search. Fast Search

Ixquick

Mamma

Metacrawler

Subject Guides and Gatewaysup

These offer a smaller range of information sources, but tend to be of higher quality than search engines, since the information sources are selected by people with a knowledge of the subject

Medical / Healthcare

BIOME A searchable UK guide to quality Internet resources in the health and life sciences. It includes OMNI.

Health Finder Major US Patient information site

Health on the Net

Health A to Z US Focus

MedWeb Partially evaluated for quality

Netting the evidence EBM resources selected by the ScHARR Library

OMNI The UK's gateway to high quality biomedical Internet resources

Social Science Information Gateway. UK index of evaluated social sciences sites

UK Health Centre. UK based catalogue of resources

Yahoo! Health

General

Google Directory

BUBL Link

Open Directory A directory built and maintained by volunteer web users. People take responsibility for maintaining and expanding a section of the directory. This approach has created a directory indexing over 1.5 million sites.

Yahoo!

 
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