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SPIDERA.ORG - SEARCHES FROM DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS
Next to the search box is a dropdown menu, which offers several ways of limiting your search. You can restrict your search to all web pages, web pages resulting from directories, web pages resulting from search engines, web pages in the education (.edu), or government (.gov) domains, music sites (MP3), and web pages from Germany (de), France (fr), England (uk) and Czechoslovakia (cz). Spidera.org is fairly reliable in returning sites that lie within the various categories. Search Tips You can use the plus and minus signs to require or forbid search words, and quotation marks to require that the words appear in the order you specified. You can also search for web pages in a specific domain (e.g., literacy domain:org). Results In my experience, the relevance of results retrieved in Spidera.org varied from very good to below average. One problem was that the results of a search were often derived from only two or three engines. Links to the search engines that did not return any items are displayed at the end of the results list. When you click on any of these engines, you're presented with the items retrieved by your search on that particular engine. Although you can get additional results in this way, it is time-consuming. Results Format: Each item includes the title, a description, the url and the first initial of the engine it was derived from. Spidera.org is particularly useful when you want to find information about a subject from several different perspectives. For example, in a search for information about the health effects of vitamin E, you could do separate searches for government and university-related information as well as data from different countries. Go To Page: 1 2 |
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