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Information taken from the May 31, 2004 page 23 Business Week article Out-Goggling The Top Search Engine and an earlier article Quick Fixes for Web Info-Junkies by Stephen H. Wildstrom. | ||
| Current Events and Breaking News | ||
| www.news.google.com from Google will give you a more specialized news media search than Google. | ||
| www.daypop.com will narrow your media search even more than news.google. | ||
| Subscription Search Engines have respected information. | ||
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Encyclopedia Britannica www.eb.com costs $60 a year. |
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| www.worldbookonline.com cost $50 a year and serves a younger audience.. | ||
| "GuruNet,
a $30 subscription service, is another route to authoritative information,
providing quick access to a variety of standard reference works, from the American
Heritage Dictionary to Wolfram Research's online science and math
encyclopedias. With GuruNet, searching doesn't require clicking on your
browser -- and the results are ad-free. The program installs a small piece of
Windows software. (A Mac version is due later this year.) After that, you can
call up a reference simply by alt-clicking on any word on your screen or by
entering a search term in a toolbar that hides at the edge of your desktop.
Either way, a window pops open with basic information on the topic and choices
for additional data. For example, a company name will give you company news
and a stock quote, while a technical term will get a definition and an
encyclopedia entry. GuruNet offers a fun feature for the intellectually
curious by including Princeton University's WordNet lexicon. Like a
dictionary, it gives definitions, but it also provides links to related terms
or concepts, producing chains of information that can lead you far afield of
your original query." |
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| Other specialized Search Engines | ||
| Mathworld |
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| Scienceworld | ||
| Artcyclopedia is a Fine Arts search engines. | ||
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