Internet Search Engines

Dogpile This multiple search engines 'fetches' your query from the web, newsgroups and more.

Ask Jeeves  Popular search engine for asking questions.

Metacrawler Searches using multiple engines at one time.

Yahoo Search is a comprehensive subject index.

Alta Vista is a full-text index of more than 30 million Web pages and over 14,000 news groups. This is a powerful and very fast search engine.

Lycos allows Boolean AND and OR and can match up to seven terms which makes it good for synonyms or variant spellings.

Excite features Web and Usenet searches and includes Web site reviews. Concept-based searches result in high quality search results.

Infoseek Ultra There are over 50 million full text pages indexed. This engine has automatic name recognition. There is no need for quotes to recognize capitalized word phrases, and all words are searched. Plain English queries work and it finds all word variants, e.g. mice will find mouse.

WebCrawler is a great search engine, but the database is small. It works well for a quick search. Also, there is a good subject directory.

Internet Search Directories

Yahoo People Search provides links to e-mail addresses and personal web pages.

Internet Reference Sites

Bibliomation Telnet to Seymour Library's Catalog and other Libraries on the Bibliomation Database. See if we have the book you want from the comfort of your home.

Request (Webpac) Search the holdings of Connecticut Libraries.

Connecticut State Library State Library Home Page

Library of Congress Homepage provides access to Catalogs at Other Libraries, public FTP site, information for publishers and more.

Berkeley Public Library Excellent index to thousands of websites.Organized by topics.

News Sources

Channel 8 News Check current stories and weather.

Connecticut Magazine Find out what is happening around the state.

Hartford Courant Hartford's daily newspaper.

Bargain News Need to buy or sell something? This is the place to go.

JournalismNet Julian Sher's "Investigative Journalism on the Internet" links to Newspaper archives, TV archives and much more.

Government Sites

 FedLaw Developed as a research tool for lawyers and Federal employees doing legal research. Includes US Codes, Federal Regulations, Federal Courts and more.

State of Connecticut Official information created by government agencies. Information about the State as well as local governments.

CIA  Factbook Keep track of changes throughout the world.

FedWorld National and state statistics compiled by the government.

Thomas Congressional legislation website. Get information on pending bills, excerpts from the Congressional Record, reference the Constitution and Email your representative.

U.S. Census Bureau is a source of social, demographic, and economic statistical information.

revised 11/02/02