Search the Internet

Search Engines

• AltaVista - A powerful and popular search engine.
• Ask - ask an english-based question
• Clusty - get your results organized into topical areas (by "clusters")
• EasySearcher - Lets you search seven different engines (not together) from one screen.
• Exalead - lots of nice features, including a proximity search
• Excite - Search more than 1 million web documents.
• Google - Currently the most popular search engine and for good reasons; it works well.
• GoodSearch - every search results in a small contribution to a charity of your choice
• HotBot - Searches every word on the WWW
• Lycos - popular web engine
• QuickFindIt - not quite an engine, but a "channel" search - target searches to specific topical sites
• Webcrawler - Search contents of documents, in addition to titles and URLs.
• Yahoo - Search Yahoo. 

         Find more at About.com's 100 search engines in 100 days report

Tools For Learning About Search Engines

• Search Engine Showdown - How to use the tools and comparisons of the major search engines
• Four NETS for Better Searching - These four techniques alone will vastly improve Internet searches
• Search Engine Watch - Keep up with the latest developments in search engines
• Web Searching Tutorials - About.com offers a whole series of guides to improving internet search skills
• Best Search Tools Chart - quick reference for the search features of top engines and directories 

Directories of Search Engines

• Allonesearch - Compilation of forms-based search tools
• Eureka - contains links to dozens of search engines
• Search Engine Colossus - an international directory of search engines
• Search Links - links to more major search engines, metacrawlers, specialty engines, multimedia engines and more
  

Photo, Image and Audio Search Engines

• Ditto.com - a visual mechanism to search the web using pictures instead of text
• FAST Multimedia Search - find all sorts of multimedia files
• FindSounds.com - use to find sound effects on the web
• Google Image Search - use Google to find images
• Lycos Image Gallery
• PhotoGraphicLibraries.com - stock images from film and photo archives
• PicSearch
• Pixsy - says it finds unique photos the other engines miss
• Webshots - all sorts of photos, especially ones shared by the people who take them

        Need help with image searching? Try TASI (Technical Advisory Service For Images)

    Note: meta-search engines are recommended for broad, single-term searches

• Dogpile
• Ixquick
• Mamma.com - bills itself as "the mother of all search engines"
• Metacrawler 
• SavvySearch - Colorado State University
• Surfwax - offers customizing features, such as zooming and infocubby (store and share results)
• Vivisimo - uses a frame and Windows-type "expand" feature to neatly organize search results

• All Academic - provides a way to search for scholarly research papers
• INFOMine - over 50,000 web sites described as "academically/scholarly valuable resources"
• Patentcafe - search for patent info
• Librarians Index to the Internet - a indexed, massive collection of reviewed web sites
• OJoSE - searches for articles in free and fee online full-text journal collections.
• OmniMedicalSearch - metasearches multiple medical search engines
• Science.Gov - a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by government agencies
• Scirus - search scientific literature (there are fees for ordering documents)
• Search-22 - A site that compiles many different reference databases (quotes, dictionaries, etc.

Blog Search Engines

• Technorati

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