SEARCH TOOL GUIDE
for Effective Internet Search

Consider this guide as a starting point in your search, intended to get you going in the right direction — to point you toward the most important references and/or provide you with sample websites.

How to get started? Find your desired information listed alphabetically on the left navigation bar. Then click on the appropriate links.

What's a search tool? It's any mechanism or computer program that helps you locate information on the Web, such as a search engine, a meta search engine, a directory of other search tools, or even individual websites providing search end results and having their own rich internal search abilities.

What's a search tool guide? It's a multi-level, categorized list of different types of search tools. Working from the highest level kind of search tool guide down, a search tool guide can include links to:

Websites that specialize in discussing, categorizing, and advising on search engines or tools, including other search tool guides: e.g.:
- Entirely Search Engines: www.entirelysearchengines.com;
- Pandia.com, Web Search Tools: www.pandia.com/search-tools.html or Pandia Power Search: www.pandia.com/powersearch;
- SearchEngineWatch.com, Search Engine Listings: www.searchenginewatch.com/links.
General search tool directories, and meta or deep web search tools and directories that categorize more specific search tools by subject and other: e.g.:
- the directory at About.com;
- the Big Search Engine Index at www.search-engine-index.co.uk;
- the Copernic meta search application (installed on your own computer): www.copernic.com.

Note that Copernic's lists of specific search tools in each category are available in our Search Tool Guide, by clicking on the various category names/descriptions for these particular search tools. Other meta search tools that classify and make explicit the search tools they source may in future be added to our Search Tool Guide.

Specialized, deep and surface web search engines and directories, including library gateways, subject-specific databases, vearch engines: e.g.:
- MapQuest, for driving directions: www.mapquest.com;
- RefDesk, for academic publications: www.refdesk.com;
- AddAll, book shopping search: www.addall.com.
All-in-one search guides, which allow you to directly enter your search using any one (but not more than one at a time) of a categorized list of more specific search tools: e.g.:
- Langenberg.com: www.langenberg.com;
- Freeality.com: www.freality.com.

Is our search tool guide the only one presently around? No, there are others, although each works in a different way. Ours is a "high-level" search tool guide, since it references sites that specialize in discussing, categorizing, and advising on search engines or tools, including other search tool guides. In that respect, our guide may make a bigger attempt than others to cross-reference other search tool guides. That's because this guide is here to serve you by providing you with as many choices as possible beyond our own guide. At the same time, we hope to benefit by encouraging you to consider buying our book.

What else may be unique in our search tool guide? It also categorizes search tools by factors other than subject or audience, such as by search tool ability, type (e.g., directory, meta, mainstream), and level (degree of generality).

To suggest other search tools or search tool guides for our Search Tool Guide:

Please use the Contact Us link.
Then select the general-purpose "Contact Us" form.
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Published by Baylin Systems, Inc.: 2809 Mozart Court, Ottawa (Gloucester), Ontario, Canada K1T 2P5. To contact us, please use the appropriate forms on our website at www.SearchHelpCenter.com.
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Notice of liability: The information in this book is distributed on an "As is" basis, without warranty. While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of the book, neither the authors nor Baylin Systems, Inc., shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the instructions contained in this book or by the computer software and hardware products described in it.
Copyright: Baylin Systems, Inc., 2005, unless otherwise specified herein.
Borrowed materials: Copernic supplied us with details of their various categories, along with descriptions of their contents. These descriptions are included in this guide, with permission of Copernic. However, the notice of copyright is posted only on the present page.
Disclaimer: Because of the continually changing sites on the Internet and the huge number of links to those sites in this guide, it is possible that some of the external links may be out of date, and may not work. Please contact us in such cases so that we can remedy the problem.