07 Dec 2009

Asian Studies Search Engines [a guide]
Asia-Pacific Research Online, Canberra, Australia
Self-description:
"This document [est. Aug 1997] keeps track of leading information retrieval facilities of value/significance to researchers in the field of Asian Studies and Social Sciences. It is a part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html)."
Site contents:
* Asian Studies WWW VL Search Engine (Search: # Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library web sites worldwide, # Asian Studies WWW Monitor [coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html], # Pacific Studies WWW Monitor [coombs.anu.edu.au/pacific-www-monitor.html], # Inbox Robot for latest news [www.inboxrobot.com], # OAIster database of e-prints [oaister.umdl.umich.edu], # H-Asia logs [www2.h-net.msu.edu/~asia/], # H-SEAsia logs [www2.h-net.msu.edu/~seasia/], # H-Japan logs [www2.h-net.msu.edu/~japan/], # H-US-Japan logs [www2.h-net.msu.edu/~usjp/], # H-ANZAU logs [www2.h-net.msu.edu/~anzau/], # Asian Law Centre bibliographies [www.law.unimelb.edu.au/alc/bibliography/], # Asian Law Centre WWW links [www.law.unimelb.edu.au/db/useful_links/alc/], # H-Levant logs [www2.h-net.msu.edu/~levant/], # H-Mideast-Medieval logs [www2.h-net.msu.edu/~midmed/], # H-Turk logs [www2.h-net.msu.edu/~turk/], # H-Islamart logs [www2.h-net.msu.edu/~islamart/], # H-Buddhism logs [www2.h-net.msu.edu/~buddhism/]);
* The Top Search Engines (Search: # "Aliweb" database (www.aliweb.com, UK), # "Altavista" database (Compaq Co., USA), # "AllTheWeb" database (www.alltheweb.com, USA), # "Bing" database for web pages, images, videos, news and maps (Microsoft, USA), # "Excite" database (www.excite.com, USA), # "Google" database (www.google.com, USA), # "The Internet Archive" Collection (The Internet Archive, USA), # The "Wayback Machine" (The Internet Archive, USA), # "Yahoo" database (www.yahoo.com, USA);
* Asia Search Engines (Search: # NBR web site and publications catalogue (www.nbr.org, USA), # Arabic Web space (www.4arabs.com, US), # Asia Hotels Database (asiarooms.com, TH), # Australia Web space (www.anzwers.com.au, AU), # Bangladesh Web space (1), (www.bangla2000.com, BD), # Bangladesh Web space (2), (www.bangladeshdir.com, BD), # China Web space (www.surfchina.com, US), # India Web space (1), (www.searchindia.com, US), # India Web space (2), (www.123india.com, IN), # India Web space (3), (www.Search4i.com, IN), # Islamic Web space (islamic-world.net, MY), # Laos Web space (www.laoworld.com, US), # Malaysia Web space (www.cari.com.my, MY), # Nepal Web space (www.nepalsearch.com, US), # New Zealand Web space (www.searchnz.co.nz, NZ), # Philippines Web space (1), (www.alleba.com, CA), # Philippines Web space (2), (www.yehey.com, PH), # Singapore Web space (www.sg, SG);
* MULTI-THREADED engines (Search: # Ixquick: a metasearch engine (www.ixquick.com, US/Netherlands), # Dogpile Multi-Engine Web Search Tool (www.dogpile.com, USA), # MetaCrawler Multi-Threaded Web Search Service (www.metacrawler.com, USA), # Search.com (search.com, USA));
* Search Engines: Practical Knowledge # FinderSeeker: The Search Engine for Search Engines (www.finderseeker.com, USA), # Finding Images on the Web (www.bu.edu, USA), # Search Engine Showdown (www.searchengineshowdown.com, USA), # Web Search Engines FAQS: Questions, Answers, and Issues (www.infotoday.com, USA);
* Online Guides & Query Systems (# Research Resources for the Social Sciences (www.socsciresearch.com, Canada), # SOSIG - Social Sciences Information Gateway Database (U. Bristol, UK)).
URL http://www.ciolek.com/SearchEngines.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.ciolek.com/SearchEngines.html
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
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