Website Evaluation: Search Engines

Test your search skills

Recorded Webinars on a variety of topics related to searching

Self-paced Course (2 parts)

from SearchEngineWatch.com

Open Education Database

Karen Blakeman presentation.

Search multiple search engines (Google, Yahoo, LookSmart, Ask.com, MSN search, and more), but watch for "sponsored by" and "paid" sites that also appear in the results.

This search engine affords more privacy and less spam.

Karen Blakeman's presentation from her workshop on Google and Google Scholar. Presents many specialist tools for scientific and research information, and additional indices and search tools.

A computer-generated news site that aggregates headlines from news sources worldwide, groups similar stories together and displays them according to each reader's personalized interests.

Search for scholarly literature, and explore related works, citations, authors and publications.

Use this search area for more detailed searches, with hints and examples shown throughout.

This search engine states that it "does NOT collect or share ANY personal information." Its search results are generated by Google.

"Practical tools for dynamic search & navigation" covering the "last 7 days of information from 140 popular RSS sites. Updated every hour."

Submit a question, and this computational knowledge engine will look for the answer, detailed explanations, etc.