When you are looking something up on the Internet’s Worldwide Web a general-purpose search engine can be too broad. This is especially true because the web is becoming more and more ‘commercial.’
If your topic of interest is on the academic side, then you probably don’t want to sift through a hundred commercial web sites trying to sell you something before locating what you want.
Try ‘LookSmart’ at ‘findarticles.com.’ They provide access to 5.5 million articles from over 900 publications. The search interface can be simple, just like Google’s, or you can go to the advanced search form and specify the publications individually or by category, whether to search all articles or just the free ones, and so on.
For example, under ‘computers and technology,’ over 200 publications are searchable or articles from their most recent publication can e browsed from LookSmart.
This is part of the LookSmart search family that includes Furl.net, a free service where you can save a personal copy of any page on the web with a single click, search the full text of your entire archive in and instant, share what you find through e-mail, RSS or your own site, or automatically see what others are saving and discover new, useful information.
You can sigh up for free at furl.net and receive 5 gigabytes of free disk space storing your web pages too.
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