Toni Whelan

Slm521SPO3

02/26/03

engine Search Engines

By Toni Whelan

http://www.altavista.com/

For the images Altavista was easy to use. It had no pop-ups or advertisements. The rating was how many hours ago the site had been looked at, for example 11 hours ago

http://www.google.com/

For image I love Goggle. This is so easy to use and the displays make it easy to enlarge the images and very accessible to students use. My 13-year-old showed me this one and I loved being able to download these images so easy.

http://www.infosearch.com/

Infosearch had little pictures of books, little directories with listings of where you’re going. An example was the Library of Congress. When opened it went to more icons and pictures. This was very attainable and nice on the eyes. This would be easy and fun for students to use

http://search.msn.com/

MSN is easy to use I like the no pop-ups.The search took me right to Social Studies for teachers where other sites would take me to social and anything, or study and anything

http://lii.org/

"The lii.org Mission Statement: The mission of Librarians' Index to the Internet is to provide a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy, librarian-selected Internet resources, serving California, the nation, and the world."(lii.org)

I like this mission and they stick to it very well. The sites you are taken to are beautiful and worthy of many hours of being online. There are comments about each site and when it was updated. I certainly trust Librarians

http://www.academicinfo.net/

Academic Info is a good strong link to good resources. All sources I pulled were from libraries, research centers, universities, and other strong links as mentioned

http://www.ajkids.com/

This is askjeeves for kids. This site was very colorful and is easy to use. This would be nice for any subject for kids. There was an area for anyone to ask a specific question and then I was taken to a specific encyclopedia format introducing the religion I needed to know about. There were no decisions to make about what sites I should pick.

http://www.alltheweb.com/

What I found good about alltheweb is it included the following sites, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Netscape 6+ Netscape 4.x and older Opera, Apple Sherlock 3. This saved me time from searching these specific web sites each by themselves. The site was easy to use and gave a lot of instruction. Once using a religion search it brought you to an appropriate place to find websites on Hinduism. The site pulled up most religions as a list on the right side. I could just pick Hinduism and it went right to web listings appropriate for high school students.

http://md-diglib.org/
Maryland Digital Library (MDL) is a gateway to electronic resources available to students and faculty at universities and colleges across the state of Maryland.
In the digital Library what I like best is the use for full text articles to be read at home. The particular sites it uses that are my favorites are ERIC digest and Academic Search Elite. These sites are easy to use. The explanations from the abstract is enough to know if this is the site you need to be on.

http://www.socioweb.com/

This is good for research in sociology. The front page has easy accessible topics listed and they take you to rated web sites easy to understand what they are about, whether it is selling a book or from the distinct virtues of a research laboratory or library. Easy for any student too look up what they need and again with no pop-ups and no advertising.