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Subject gateways

Directories, edited and selected by humans, which list web documents by subject.

• BUBL Information Service selected academic web resources arranged by Dewey Decimal Classification
• Librarians' Internet Index
• Open Directory Project constructed and maintained by a global community of volunteer editors
• Pinakes links to the major academic subject gateways
• Intute (UK) aimed at users in further and higher education and contains descriptions of high quality web sites
• WWW Virtual Library the oldest web catalogue of quality resources, started by Tim Berners-Lee

Search engines

A selection of search and metasearch engines:

More seach engines and directories:

• Yahoo! Directory > Computers and Internet > Internet > World Wide Web > Searching the Web > Search Engines and Directories for more search engines
• Search Engine Colossus international directory of search engines, by country

Search tool features

For detailed analysis of the ever changing features of search tools investigate the following key sites:

• Best Search Tools Chart Infopeople Project chart of supported search functions of key tools
• Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need from NoodleTools
• List of search engines comprehensive Wikipedia article/s
• Search Engine Showdown, The Users' Guide to Web Searching, particularly:
  • Search Engine Features Chart tabular presentation of search engines and their search features
  • Web Subject Directories comparitive table of search features of six major directories
• Search Engine Watch, guide to search engine marketing and search engine optimization

Web history

Internet Archive
Digital library of internet pages archived from 1996 to the present.

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