Search the web List of useful Web sites by subjects from CCBC Essex.

Online tutorials to get you started. Glossary of internet and web terminology from UC Berkeley. Choose the best search for your information need (Noodle Tools)

Explore selected internet resources arranged by subjects via the Directories. Some directories only include in their databases sites that have been evaluated. Infomine has a database of over 100,000 academically valuable resources. Librarians' Index to the internet has weekly updates and has just redesigned its opening page. Academic Info is an online subject directory of over 25,000 hand-picked educational resources for high school and college students as well as a directory of online degree programs.

Search engines are computer driven programs that search previously compiled databases. Robots called "spiders" collect large numbers of web sites into these databases. Google , Yahoo and Ask are the major search engines but there are others.

Invisible web: the portion of the Web that is hidden from search engines because it requires a subscription or password. Also, files which are not primarily HTML-based are generally not accessible to search engines.

(last updated 09/26/06 --MM)