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About Searching, Search Engines, and Web Resources
Advanced Searches
Making the most of any search engine you use. Adobe PDF format. From Middletown Thrall Library.
Diversify Your Search
Introduce new sources and possibilities into your research. Adobe PDF format. From Middletown Thrall Library.
How Search Engines Work
From How Stuff Works.
Search Engine Land
News and reviews.
Search Engine News & Web Trends
Top searches, search engine updates, and more.
Search Engine Simulator
Simulates a search engine. An educational tool developed at Middletown Thrall Library.
Search Smarter, Better
Improve your search skills. Adobe PDF format. From Middletown Thrall Library.
Using Thrall's Web Guides
Learn about our online information guides. Adobe PDF format. From Middletown Thrall Library.
Web Checklist
Things to consider when visiting a website. Adobe PDF format. From Middletown Thrall Library.
Why Search?
Adobe PDF format. From Middletown Thrall Library.

General Web Search Engines
Bing
Google
Lycos
Search Engine Colossus
International search engine directory.
Web Resources

Metasearch Tools
Dogpile
Ixquick
MetaCrawler
Scour
Includes social media results.
Yippy
Formerly "Clusty."

Specialized Searches & Search Engines
Colleges & Universities
Government Information Searches
Health & Medical: MedlinePlus
Image Search Engines
Job Search Engines
Local History & Genealogy
Microsoft Academic Search
"Microsoft Academic Search is a free academic search engine developed by Microsoft Research, which also serves as a test-bed for our object-level vertical search research. Microsoft Academic Search provides many innovative ways to explore scientific publications, authors, conferences, journals, organizations and keywords, connecting millions of scholars, students, librarians, and other users."
Music: Lyrics
See also Music Databases & Searches
News Search Engines
Wolfram | Alpha
A "computational search engine" that can solve mathematical problems, convert numbers, and perform other interesting calculations. Read more about it in Thrall's Science and Technology blog.

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Web Resources & Website Directories
ALA: Great Websites
For young persons, educators, and parents. Directory provided by the American Library Association (ALA).
BUBL LINK: Catalogue of Internet Resources
"Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas." The BUBL service is no longer being updated (April 2011).
Common Sense Media: Best Websites - Our Recommendations for Families
"Looking for great websites for kids? Our editors have made it easy with these hand-picked lists of fun, age-appropriate kids' sites and online games. It's a big world on the web, but with lists like ours, it can be a worthwhile one for your kids."
FREE: Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
"FREE makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government. More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly." Provided by the U.S. Department of Education.
Interactives
Activities for math, language, science, history and the arts. Aimed at grades 2 through 12. Topics include the Renaissance, Middle Ages, spelling, volcanoes, metrics, geometry, garbage and more. From the Annenburg Foundation.
Infomine
"Scholarly Internet Resource Collections." Search or browse.
Intute
"Created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources." Their database contains over 110,000 records.
ipl2.org
A searchable directory of web resources maintained by librarians.
KidsClick
Websites selected by librarians. Originally created by the Ramapo Catskill Library System, now maintained by San Jose State University's School of Library and Information Science
Middletown Thrall Library Internet Resource Guides
In addition to this Ready Reference guide, which you are viewing right now, we maintain a variety of resource guides covering more subjects yet. You may browse or search our guides. Also check out our databases and blogs.
The Open Directory Project
Boasting an index of several million websites, the Open Directory Project is an Internet community-maintained directory. Browse or search.
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Kids

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