Search Engines

Reviews of USLaw.com and FindLaw for the Public - two specialized search engines that provide legal information to consumers. Includes search tips, scope, strengths and weaknesses.

Dec 31, 2006 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of USLaw.com and FindLaw for the Public - two specialized search engines that provide legal information to consumers. Includes search tips, scope, strengths and weaknesses.

Dec 31, 2001 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of two medical search engines, WebMD and OMNI, including search tips. Scope, strengths, weaknesses.

Nov 30, 2001 - Paula Dragutsky

Review of InfoWar.com, a specialized search engine that covers terrorism. Includes search tips, scope, features, strengths, weaknesses.

Oct 31, 2001 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of two consumer search engines - ConsumerSearch and Active Buyer's Guide. Scope, special features, strengths, weaknesses, idiosyncracies.

Sep 30, 2001 - Paula Dragutsky

Review of Vivisimo, including search tips. Scope, strengths, weaknesses, idiosyncracies.

Aug 31, 2001 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of All The Web Picture Search and Google Image Search, including search tips. Scope, strengths, weaknesses, idiosyncracies.

Jul 31, 2001 - Paula Dragutsky

Review of Query Server, a metasearch engine developed by Open Text. Includes search tips, scope, special features, strengths, weaknesses, idiosyncracies.

Jun 30, 2001 - Paula Dragutsky

Review of iLOR, including search tips. Scope, special features, strengths, weaknesses, idiosyncracies.

May 31, 2001 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of FindArticles.com and HomepageSeek.com, including search tips. Scope, strengths, weaknesses.

Apr 30, 2001 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of Researchville - a metasearch engine and Google Groups - a newsgroup search service. Includes search tips, scope, strengths, weaknesses, idiosyncracies.

Mar 31, 2001 - Paula Dragutsky

Brief reviews (including search tips) of five nutrition search engines - USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Food Finder, MayoClinic.com: Food and Nutrition Center, International Food Information Council and Meals For You.

Jan 30, 2001 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of two metasearch engines - Infind (and InFind beta) and Spidera.org, including search tips. Strengths, weaknesses, scope, special features.

Dec 31, 2000 - Paula Dragutsky

A review of GO.com including search tips. Scope, special features, strengths, weaknesses, idiosyncracies.

Nov 30, 2000 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of NBCi - a search engine, and SeekAmerica - a metasearch engine, including search tips. Scope, strengths, weaknesses, idiosyncracies.

Oct 31, 2000 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of two academic search engines - InfoMine and Academic Info, including search tips. Scope, strengths, weaknesses. idiosyncracies.

Sep 30, 2000 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of two specialized search engines for consumers - Productopia and SoandSo.com, and a metasearch engine - Exploratorius. Includes search tips, scope, strengths, weaknesses, idiosyncracies.

Aug 31, 2000 - Paula Dragutsky

A review of Google, including search tips, features, strengths, limitations and idiosyncracies.

Jul 31, 2000 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of Deja.com, Topica, and Forum One - the best search engines for newsgroups, mailing lists and forums (message boards), including search tips. Special features, strengths, weaknesses.

Jun 30, 2000 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of Dogpile, a metasearch engine and Bartleby.com, a specialized reference search engine, including search tips. Scope, strengths and weaknesses, idiosyncracies.

May 31, 2000 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of two image search engines - Alta Vista Image Search and Ditto.com, including search tips. Scope, special features, strengths, weaknesses, idiosyncracies.

Apr 24, 2000 - Paula Dragutsky

A Review of Northern Light focusing on its uses for business research.

Mar 23, 2000 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of Ixquick and SherlockHound, including search tips. Scope, special features, strengths, idiosyncracies.

Feb 23, 2000 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of HotLinks and Ask Jeeves, including search tips. Covers types of searches that each is suited for, strengths, weaknesses, special features.

Jan 24, 2000 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of two metasearch engines InFind (and InFind beta) and Spidera.org, including search tips. Strengths, weaknesses, scope, special features.

Jan 1, 2000 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of Oingo, SurfWax and iWon, including search tips. Scope, features, strengths, weaknesses, idiosyncracies.

Dec 22, 1999 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of Yahoo! Shopping, Excite Shopping and GO Shopping, with particular emphasis on holiday shopping. Includes search tips, scope, special features, strengths, idiosyncracies.

Nov 21, 1999 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of Direct Hit and Open Directory Project including search tips. Covers scope, strengths, weaknesses, idiosyncracies.

Oct 19, 1999 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of two US government search engines - THOMAS and GovBot, including search tips. Scope, strengths and weaknesses, special features.

Sep 20, 1999 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of FAST Search and Google, including search tips. Strengths, weaknesses, special features, idiosyncracies.

Aug 19, 1999 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of GO Network (Infoseek) and Disney.com, including search tips. Special features, strengths, weaknesses, idiosyncracies.

Jul 15, 1999 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of dowjones.com and CorporateInformation including search tips. Scope, special search services, strengths, weaknesses, idiosyncracies.

Jun 19, 1999 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of WebInfoSearch and SavvySearch including search tips. Scope of coverage, strengths, weaknesses, special services.

May 20, 1999 - Paula Dragutsky

Review of Alta Vista including search tips. Special search services, strengths, weaknesses, idiosyncracies.

Apr 17, 1999 - Paula Dragutsky

Review of Northern Light including search tips. Special search services, strengths, weaknesses, idiosyncracies.

Mar 18, 1999 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of MSN Search and Go2Net/MetaCrawler. Search engine strengths, weaknesses, special features, search tips.

Feb 16, 1999 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews (including search tips) of Musalman.com, The Koran, Hinduism Today, BuddhaNet, and The Baha'i World.

Jan 15, 1999 - Paula Dragutsky

Search tips and reviews of Best of the Christian Web, Christianity Net/SEARCH, EWTN (Global Catholic Network), Shamash (Jewish Internet Consortium), and Bible Browser.

Dec 11, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Search engine reviews and practical search tips. Includes scope of coverage, strengths and weaknesses, special features, idiosyncracies.

Nov 13, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Biweekly search engines article. Metasearch engine strengths, weaknesses, special features, practical search tips, important search options, quirks.

Oct 30, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Biweekly search engines article. Reviews of CNNfn, Northern Light's Alexander Personal Finance Search, invest-o-rama, MoneySearch, and Yahoo!.Finance.

Oct 16, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Biweekly search engines article. Reviews of three search engines that specialize in finding images - Scour.Net, GIF Wizard and Image Surfer. Practical search tips.

Oct 2, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Biweekly search engines article. Reviews of CompareNet, Product ReviewNet, BizRate, and eSmarts. Tips on using.

Sep 18, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Biweekly search engines article. Reviews of ShopFind, BuyDirectory, Buyer's Index, Shopping.com, and Value America. Best uses, search tips, limitations.

Sep 4, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Biweekly search engines article. How to find specialized search engines using The Internet Sleuth. Scope and special features of this valuable search engine.

Aug 21, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Biweekly search engines article. HuskySearch and Mamma strengths, weaknesses, special features, practical search tips, most appropriate uses, quirks to be aware of, scope of results.

Aug 7, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Biweekly search engines article. Best travel search engines for plane, train and hotel reservations, airport information, guides to cities and more.

Jul 24, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Biweekly search engines article. Strengths, weaknesses and special features of PlanetSearch, Google, and GoTo.com. Practical search tips.

Jul 10, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Biweekly search engines article. Brief reviews of Alta Vista, Excite, Infoseek, HotBot, Lycos and Northern Light. Strengths, weaknesses, special features, practical search tips.

Jun 26, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Biweekly search engines article. Reviews of searchUK, UK Plus and UK Yellow Web. Practical search tips, appropriate uses, scope of results.

Jun 11, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Biweekly search engines article. How to find medical information using Medline, PubMed, Internet Grateful Med, InteliHealth, WebMedLit, and MDX Health Digest. Practical search tips.

May 29, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Biweekly search engines article. How to search newsgroups, mailing lists and forums with Reference.COM and Forum One. Search engine strengths, weaknesses, most appropriate uses, quirks.

May 15, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of WWW Virtual Library and Britannica Internet Guide, including most appropriate uses and practical search tips.

May 1, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Biweekly search engines article. How to find information - not hype - about hardware, software, the Internet, etc., etc. Search engine reviews and practial search tips.

Apr 17, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Search engine reviews and practical search tips. How to use Search.com to find specialized search engines.

Apr 3, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Special features, strengths and weaknesses of HotBot and What's New Too. Practical search tips, important search options, shortcomings.

Mar 20, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Description and evaluation of Liszt and WebCrawler. How to find the mailing list you want on Liszt. Search options, shortcomings.

Mar 6, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Biweekly search engines article. Review of Lycos including features, practical search tips, important options, shortcomings. Use and misuse of the asterisk.

Feb 20, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Part I. Search engine strengths, weaknesses, special features, most useful search operators, practical tips. Part II. Natural language queries explained.

Feb 6, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Biweekly search engines article. Strengths, weaknesses and features of Deja News. Tips on searching for newsgroup information. Evaluation and appropriate use of LookSmart.

Jan 23, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of Dogpile, a metasearch engine and Bartleby.com, a specialized reference search engine, including search tips. Scope, strengths, weaknesses, idiosyncracies.

Jan 16, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Reviews of Oingo, SurfWax and iWon, including search tips. Scope, special features, strengths, weaknesses, idiosyncracies.

Jan 16, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Biweekly search engines article. Part I. Alta Vista and Four11 evaluated. Practical search tips. Part II. Using the NOT (or AND NOT) Boolean operator.

Jan 9, 1998 - Paula Dragutsky

Biweekly search engines article. Part I. Metasearch engine reviews. When to use a metasearch engine. Part II. The AND and OR Boolean operators explained.

Dec 26, 1997 - Paula Dragutsky

Biweekly search engines article. Part I. Special features, strengths and weaknesses of Yahoo and Northern Light. Part II. Using the NEAR Boolean operator.

Dec 12, 1997 - Paula Dragutsky

Biweekly search engines article. Part I. Reviews of Excite and Reference.COM. Part II. Searching for words in web page titles.

Nov 20, 1997 - Paula Dragutsky