Matrix+of+Search+Engines

A Let's build a search engine matrix to find the best tools, as rated by you!

A good place to find new search engines is the Folden Blog: @http://www.folden.info/searchengineinnovations.shtml

After you've found, examined, and posted your findings, we'll discuss them as a group. What do you plan to add or adopt? How would you use this in teaching in online, blended or F2F courses?

Some sites that other folks like (if you're looking for more ;^) @http://spezify.com @http://artcyclopedia.com @http://www.scirus.com/ @http://data.gov @http://www.metacrawler.com/info.metac.test.b5/search/home @http://www.pandia.com/powersearch/index.html @http://www.truveo.com/ @http://aip.completeplanet.com/ @http://www.dmoz.org/ @http://www.hotsheet.com/ @http://www.ixquick.com/ @http://lookahead.surfwax.com/index-2011.html @http://www.yippy.com/ @http://www.artcyclopedia.com/ http://WWW.IIE.ORG /GILMAN @http://www.iiepassport.org/ @http://www.iseek.com/iseek/home.page @http://cyclo.ps/ @http://www.foodieview.com/ @http://www.filleritemfinder.com/ @http://duckduckgo.com @http://www.webcrawler.com @http://www.healia.com @http://www.thecollegesearchengine.com @http://www.thesearchenginelist.com/ @http://newsmap.jp/ @http://www.mysimon.com/ @http://www.clipblast.com @http://alice.com @http://www.rasmussen.edu/student-life/blogs/college-life/15-educational-search-engines/ @http://sciencestage.com/ @http://www.apsarchive.org/ [] []


 * Image & Audio search**
 * < Name ||< URL || What is it? ||< What was Good? ||< What was Bad? ||< Rate Usefulness (1 lowest, 5 highest) ||
 * < Altavista ||< @http://www.altavista.com/ || search for easily for only audio ||< Simple and direct information. A cleaner version of Yahoo. ||< Site was discontinued by Yahoo 2010 ||< 3 ||
 * < Musicovery ||< @http://musicovery.com/ || Musicovery just launched its lab and “invites you to test a new revolutionary way to find intuitively the music you want to play: ‘the sensitive mood pad.’ ||< Very similar to pandora. has a few more options ||< No droid app? ||< 4 ||


 * Meta search**
 * < Name ||< URL || What is it? ||< What was Good? ||< What was Bad? ||< Rate Usefulness (1 lowest, 5 highest) ||
 * < Dogpile ||< [] || Google, Yahoo! and Bing search ||<  ||<   ||<   ||
 * < iSeek ||< http://iSeek.com/ || "Targeted discovery" - beyond just search ||< Wonderful search for anything on the web dealing with your topic. Has an educational search as well that targets topics, subjects, etc. ||<  ||< 5 ||


 * Video search**
 * < Name ||< URL || What is it? ||< What was Good? ||< What was Bad? ||< Rate Usefulness (1 lowest, 5 highest) ||
 * < blinkx ||< [] || Searches over 35 million hours of video on the web. ||<  ||<   ||<   ||


 * Visual search engines (searches show results visually, not a search for images)**
 * < Name ||< URL || What is it? ||< What was Good? ||< What was Bad? ||< Rate Usefulness (1 lowest, 5 highest) ||
 * < TouchGraph ||< [] || Shows the network of connectivity between websites. ||<  ||<   ||<   ||


 * Social Search**
 * < Name ||< URL || What is it? ||< What was Good? ||< What was Bad? ||< Rate Usefulness (1 lowest, 5 highest) ||
 * < Trendistic ||< @http://search.trendistic.com/ || Twitter search app ||<  ||<   ||<   ||
 * < Tweet Stats ||< @http://tweetstats.com/trends || summary of trending Twitter topics ||<  ||<   ||<   ||
 * < Foller ||< @http://www.foller.me/ || stats on Twitter users ||<  ||<   ||<   ||
 * < TrendsMap ||< http://trendsmap.com || a world map overlaid with Twitter topics ||<  ||<   ||<   ||


 * Apps for Searching**
 * < Name ||< URL || What is it? ||< What was Good? ||< What was Bad? ||< Rate Usefulness (1 lowest, 5 highest) ||
 * < SortFix ||< [] ||  ||<   ||<   ||<   ||


 * Other specialized content searches**
 * < Name ||< URL || What is it? ||< What was Good? ||< What was Bad? ||< Rate Usefulness (1 lowest, 5 highest) ||
 * < Scitopia ||< @http://www.scitopia.org/scitopia/search.html || The search portal scitopia.org is a collaboration of 15 leading science and technology associations and societies. Publishers from these associations developed a search engine gateway to the online published scholarly work. Scitopia.org searches the entire electronic libraries of these associations and provides results. More than three million documents, including peer-reviewed journal content and technical conference papers, spanning 150 years of science and technology can be searched through the site. ||<  ||<   ||<   ||
 * < Wolframalpha ||< @http://www.wolframalpha.com/ || In searching for medical/health/nursing information here, found it more productive to go to preset areas(health and medicine) rather than type in search box in general. Once in an area then found interesting data on mortality, medicines, weight loss, exercise, hospitals. Also did education as a preset category and then could go into various colleges/universities. ||<  ||<   ||< 4 ||