An online database of thousands of sites which have been reviewed by Encyclopedia Britannica. Unlike Britannica's online encyclopedia, this resource is available for free. The site functions as a reliable starting point of accurate, evaluated links to information on the Internet. A Web directory is a listing of sites, collected by people, put into categories, and periodically updated. A Web directory is typically arranged hierarchically so that sites that best apply to an area of interest can be located choosing the appropriate category and narrowing it.
Web directories are best when an automated exploration of Internet sites returns too much data.
This page also has a handy section at the end explaining possible error messages. Choose the best engine for your purpose - This site provides a list of likely kinds of search needs and suggests the best search tools for those search needs. This page from Southern Oregon University Library contains links to search tools as well as a number of articles on searching the Internet. Searching the Web - Yahoo's list of links for information on searching the web. On this page Terry Gray, a computer assisted instruction librarian at Palomar College, examines ten popular search tools and explains how they work, how to use them, and what their advantages are.