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Searching the Web for Business Information Useful Links Dublin Business Information Centre, ILAC http://www.dublincity.ie/RecreationandCulture/libraries/Library%20Services/Business_Inf ormation/Pages/index.aspx Karen Blakeman: http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/category/business-information/ Planning a search: http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/resbysub/PDF/search_skills_A4_booklet.pdf Searching Google Google quick tips: http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=134479 http://www.google.com/landing/searchtips/#helpcenter While http://www.google.com/ is an excellent search engine, like many others it only retrieves information from a relatively small proportion of web sites. There are many alternative websites to use, but also meta-search engines, directories, subject listings and portals, some of which can also search the deep or invisible web. Where available, always use the advanced search screens, and also check out any useful tutorials on http://www.youtube.com/, by typing the name of the search engine and then the terms ‘tutorial OR tips’. Search Engines http://hakia.com/is a good, general semantic search engine, which relies on ‘credible sites’ recommended by librarians, representing the most recent information available. For more information, see http://company.hakia.com/about.html http://www.findingdulcinea.com/also uses librarians to locate quality sites. http://www.exalead.com/searchis an excellent search engine with the best ‘advanced search’ page available. http://www.quintura.com/is a visual search engine, which groups concepts visually and often yields useful and unexpected results. http://www.yahoo.com/is an excellent general search engine, with special features, including Yahoo finance http://finance.yahoo.com/ http://www.ask.com/ is another excellent general search engine which offers the options of expanding or narrowing searches. http://www.alltheweb.com/produces results from a wide range of sites. Finally, Microsoft’s new search engine, http://www.bing.com/ is still in its Beta phase but offers useful links very quickly. Metasearch Engines search several search engines simultaneously. Among the best are http://www.turboscout.com/, http://www.clusty.com/and http://www.surfwax.com/See http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/lesson12.shtmlfor a guide to Clusty. Computational search engine http://www.wolframalpha.com/provides excellent information on companies and economic data. Instead of searching the web and producing a list of websites, wolframalpha searches key, quality sites and assembles their results in one page. For an up-to-date list of search engines, try http://www.philb.com/webse.htm The Hidden / deep / invisible Web is often where the best information is to be found; http://oedb.org/library/college-basics/invisible-web for information about its size and how to locate information in it). Try http://infomine.ucr.edu/ or completeplanet.com which search the hidden web. As much of the hidden information is in databases, try adding the term ’database’ to your search in any search engine to locate better quality resources. Specialist search engines search only useful sites in their sector. For business publications search engines try http://www.bpubs.com/or www.zibb.com/. Alternatively, try http://www.business.com/, http://www.alacra.com/ or, for a good listing of business web sites, see http://www.searchengineguide.com/pages/Business/ For Science search engines, try http://www.scirus.com/ (good for all scientific information, also good for patents), the excellent U.S. government science site http://www.science.gov/or http://www.scienceresearch.com/. Search engines for People include http://www.pipl.com/, 123people.com, http://www.zoominfo.com/or http://www.cluuz.com/ Looking for Companies, try http://www.zoominfo.com/or http://www.wolframalpha.com/ Search engines for Countries, try http://www.philb.com/countryse.htm Directories allow you to drill down from broad categories to narrower to find useful sites. See the Open directory project at http://www.dmoz.org/ or try http://www.completeplanet.com/. Subject listings help you find information on specific topics. Try http://www.bubl.ac.uk/for all sources and http://www.uea.ac.uk/menu/acad_depts/mth/ocean/vl/by-subject.htmlfor oceanography. Portals, also known as subject gateways, provide entry to many useful sites on countries or subjects. To see country portals, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_portals and for a business portal, see http://www.intute.ac.uk/business/or http://www.german-business-portal.info/. For a wide-ranging list of useful portals, see http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html If you find a really useful site, use http://www.insuggest.com/ to locate similar sites. To keep up to date with new search engines or new features of existing ones, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engines_list