G. I. Middle School Library Media Center
Search the Internet

Internet Search Engines
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AltaVista

AltaVista provides access to information across multiple dimensions, including Web pages, audio, video, and community resources
Google Google uses text matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google analyzes a page based on its links. No advertizing!
Northern Light Northern Light searches the Web and a Special Collection of newspaper and journal articles.
Internet Meta Search Engines
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Dogpile

Popular metasearch site that sends a search to a customizable list of search engines, directories and speciality search sites, then displays results from each search engine individually

Mamma

Allows user to search by category: web, news, MP3, audio, images, video.

SurfWax.com

Searches the major search engines, removes duplicate results, provides context highlighting, helps user focus search words, provides detailed page summaries.
Internet Subject Directories
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Michigan Electronic Library

Subject access to Internet resources selected and evaulated by librarians. Over 18,000 resources in 14 searchable categories.

Study Web

This site is a place for anyone doing research. Information is selected for its use as a research resource for term papers or lesson plans.
Internet People / Business Directories
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Big Yellow

Directories for business, people, and email, also global direcories.

Telephone Directories on the Web

Yellow pages, white pages, business directories, email addresses, and fax listings for the Americas, Europe and Africa, Asia and Pacific, multiple countries and more.
Online Databases
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NewFirstSearch

A HUGE file that contains 55 seperate databases with either full text or article abstracts. Also includes a database of Internet sites.

Country Watch

Leading the way by using the Internet to retrieve, archive, and communicate country-specific news and information.

Proquest Professional Collection

A collection of articles indexed by subject.
Additional Sources
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Using MLA Format

This site, brought to you by Purdue University, has citation examples for many different sources - print and electronic. Scroll down the page to find the information you need.

First Gov

This site has links to 30 million pages of U.S. government information, services, and online transactions. This site offers a powerful search engine, a topical index, links to state and local governments, and other tools.

National Library of Medicine

An excellent medical reference site. The National Library of Medicine is the world's largest medical library.