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Searching for directory sites: Google, Metacrawler, & Ixquick - Detailed Results Eric Rumsey eric-rumsey@uiowa.edu >> Return to article << Words in the left column were searched on June 15 in Google, Metacrawler, and Ixquick. For each search word, the first 10 hits were examined. The sites identified as directory sites are noted, preceded by their ranking. (Directory sites are easily identifiable from my work with the Hardin Meta Directory.) Umbrella directory sites are in normal dark print; independent directory sites are in gray print (For definition of these terms, see article.) The names of the sites retrieved is given in abbreviated form. Most of them appear on appropriate Hardin MD subject pages, and can be identified further by following the subject word link to these pages. Directory sites in first 10 hits Subject Word searched Google Metacrawler IxQuick anesthesiology 1 About.com 4 Martindale 8 MedWebPlus 9 Metro Health 4 About.com 6 Gasnet 4 Gasnet 9 About.com cardiology 5 Martindale 9 About.com 10 Yahoo 3 Cardiology compass 4 Links2Go 9 About.com 1 Cardiology compass 10 About.com dermatology 2 Univ Iowa 5 About.com 3 Univ Iowa 4 About.com 8 Hardin MD 2 Univ Iowa 4 Hardin MD 7 About.com gastroenterology 3 Columbia Univ 6 MedWebPlus 9 Science.Komm None found None found hematology 1 Yahoo 4 Hardin MD 6 HealthWeb 4 Hardin MD 7 "Hematology Links" 8 Yahoo None found nephrology 3 Yahoo 7 Hardin MD None found None found neurology 10 Science.Komm 8 Science.Komm 7 Neuroguide ophthalmology 3 About.com 7 Martindale 10 Science.Komm None found 9 About.com orthopedics 3 Hardin MD 7 Yahoo 2 Hardin MD 6 Orthogate pediatrics 5 About.com 6 Martindale 10 Hardin MD 3 Hardin MD 5 PedInfo 8 Hardin MD 10 About.com Number of hits for each search tool Google - 26 Umbrella directories with more than one occurence: Hardin MD - 4, About.com - 5, MedWebPlus - 2, Yahoo - 4, Science.Komm - 3, Martindale - 4 Metacrawler - 14 Umbrella directories with more than one occurence: Hardin MD - 4, About.com - 3 Ixquick - 13 Umbrella directories with more than one occurence: Hardin MD - 2, About.com - 5 Search engines included in each metasearch tool Ixquick AOL, Altavista, Excite, Fast Search, GoTo, Hotbot, Infoseek, Live Directory, LookSmart, Lycos, MSN, Snap, Webcrawler, Yahoo MetaCrawler AltaVista Infoseek, WebCrawler, Thunderstone, Excite, Google, FindWhat, Lycos, LookSmart, GoTo, About.com, DirectHit, RealNames Google | Metacrawler | Ixquick Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa Please send comments to hardin-webmaster@uiowa.edu The URL for this page is http://hardinmd.lib.uiowa.edu Last updated Last updated Thursday, Dec 02, 2010