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99 Resources to Research & Mine the Invisible Web. College researchers often need more than Google and Wikipedia to get the job done.

99 Resources to Research & Mine the Invisible Web

To find what you're looking for, it may be necessary to tap into the invisible web, the sites that don't get indexed by broad search engines. The following resources were designed to help you do just that, offering specialized search engines, directories, and more places to find the complex and obscure. Search Engines Whether you're looking for specific science research or business data, these search engines will point you in the right direction. Turbo10: On Turbo10, you'll be able to search more than 800 deep web search engines at a time. Databases Tap into these databases to access government information, business data, demographics, and beyond. GPOAccess: If you're looking for US government information, tap into this tool that searches multiple databases at a time.

Catalogs If you're looking for something specific, but just don't know where to find it, these catalogs will offer some assistance. Directories. Tutorial Search Engine - Search For Tutorials. Real Time Search - Social Mention.

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Start a Website Questions? Awards & Accreditations ICANN Accredited Registrarnameintelligence 2007 Users Choice AwardWebhost Directory Award Winner #1 In Shared HostingBest Budget Host Award by HostReview.com We Dot What You Want © 2016 Dotster. SourceForge - Download, Develop and Publish Free Open Source Software. The best document search engine. PDF and EBook Search Engines. Improve Your Google Search Skills [Infographic] - How-To Geek - StumbleUpon.

Don’t limit yourself to just plugging in simple search terms to Google; check out this infographic and learn a search string search or two.

Improve Your Google Search Skills [Infographic] - How-To Geek - StumbleUpon

You don’t need to limit yourself to searching just for simple strings; Google supports all manner of handy search tricks. If you want to search just HowToGeek.com’s archive of XBMC articles, for example, you can plug in site:howtogeek.com XBMC to search our site. Get More Out of Google [HackCollege via Mashable] Jason Fitzpatrick is a warranty-voiding DIYer who spends his days cracking opening cases and wrestling with code so you don't have to. If it can be modded, optimized, repurposed, or torn apart for fun he's interested (and probably already at the workbench taking it apart).

Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks. Google Power User Tips: Query Operators. I love showing off my Google power searching skills when presenting or meeting or talking with a prospective client.

Google Power User Tips: Query Operators

I just know it boosts my credibility in the eyes of my audience. Invest a bit of time in learning some of the lesser-used Google query refinements — i.e. the operators, parameters, and so forth — and you too can amaze your friends, family, boss, co-workers and clients! For Part 1 of this series, I’m going to focus on the various commands: the search operators, also known as query operators — for the search box to restrict your results or to otherwise pull the needle from the proverbial haystack. If you’re an SEO practitioner, you surely know and use a number of these. Ah, but do you know them all…? Google operators are case-sensitive, so be sure to use all lowercase letters (the iPhone’s Web browser will try to capitalize the first letter of every sentence, so make sure you go back and correct it before executing your query.) Query Operator explanations filetype: site: inurl: