Dr. Ronald H. Rockland

Professor,
Electrical & Computer
Engineering Technology &
Biomedical Engineering

Associate Dean,
Newark College of Engineering

University Heights
Newark, NJ 07102

Phone:
(973) 642-7155

FAX:
(973) 642-4184

E-Mail:
rockland@njit.edu

Office:
GITC 2104

 

 

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Links - Search Engines

Copernic Agent 6.0 - a free version of Copernic Agent 6.1, which is a very powerful and easy to use metasearch engine.  This is a program that saves previous searches.   http://www.copernic.com/
 
An alternative search engine which searches Google, Ask Jeeves, LookSmart and dozens of other leading search engines is www.search.com .  Also gives you alternative topics to search.
 
A third type of meta-meta search engine is Dogpile, using Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, About, LookSmart, Overture, Teoma and FindWhat.  Also has an immediate White Pages and Yellow Pages directory.  http://www.dogpile.com/
 
Vivisimo clusters search results into meaningful categories, so you can search within those categories http://vivisimo.com/
 
KillerInfo is a metasite using 260 different data sources with search result clustering http://www.killerinfo.com/m/
 
Teoma sets itself apart by its search methodology, which ranks sites according to subject-specific popularity, as well as providing a downloadable toolbar http://www.teoma.com/index.asp 
 
A site called AlltheWeb states that it searches more webpages than other search engines  http://www.alltheweb.com/
 
Ask Jeeves - a different type of metasearch engine   http://www.askjeeves.com/
 
Topix shows searchs from over 7,000 online news sources, and will show the how current the link is regarding the topic.  http://www.topix.net/
 
Feedster allows searches of the thousands of personal Web logs.  http://www.feedster.com/
 
The Ultimates is a metasearch engine for finding phone numbers and e-mail addresses  http://www.theultimates.com/
 
Other search engines that can be used for phone numbers are Four11 Directory Services http://people.yahoo.com/ , Switchboard  http://www.switchboard.com/, WhoWhere? which allows you to access U.S. Toll Free Numbers  http://www.whowhere.lycos.com/TollFree/search_tf.html , and for business lookup the Yellow Pages http://www.zip2.com/
 
A source of all bots (a software tool for digging through data) can be found at http://www.botspot.com/
 
 

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Date last edited August 06, 2007

 

ots (a software tool for digging through data) can be found at http://www.botspot.com/
  Google Groups will allow you to search newsgroups as well  http://groups.google.com/  

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