The World Wide Web provides access to billions of documents, graphics and multimedia files. To find information on the web, you'll need to use some form of search tool. Below are listed several types of search tools and some tips for using them.

What's on this Page? Use Subject Links (below) if you have a general topic. These subject directories list selected sites reviewed by humans. They can help you narrow your search and get higher quality information.. Use Search Engines or Meta Search Engines if you are looking for specific information on the web. Use Search Tools to explore various ways to search for information. Use Evaluating Web Sites to help select higher quality information. If you want to learn more about using search engines try the Searching Tips.

Subject Links  -- Web/Internet resources organized by subject.

• Web Sites Recommended by ACC Librarians
- quality web sources that match ACC coursework
• Info Mine - "scholarly internet research collections"
• Librarians Index to the Internet - over 20,000 web sites arranged into 14 categories
• Internet Public Library Reference - quality sources divided into a dozen categories

• Google - the largest web search engine.
• Yahoo
• Scirus - searches selected science web sites and online journals
• USA.gov - a site to locate U.S. government web pages.

Meta Search Engines - Search Engines that search multiple databases for web/internet resources.

• Ixquick - searches over 10 web search engines simultaneously, showing results that are ranked highly in several of them
• Dogpile - searches 6 web search engines simultaneously, including Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Ask

• Internet Public Library Web Search - suggestions on different places to try searching
• Finding Information - list of many different sources for finding various kinds of information
• Technorati - a subject directory of blogs
• Google's Blog Search
• Wikinside - a way to search web wikis

Evaluating Web Sites

• Finding and Evaluating Information on the Internet - from the ACC Library

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