Search Engines

(Use computer programs to search the Web) 

Advanced Search screens allow more

precision in your searches!

Google (Advanced), NEW!!! Google Scholar, Google Book Soople (Google explicit!), Icerocket, Yahoo!Search, All the Web (Advanced),  

Teoma (Advanced) , AltaVista(Advanced),

Exalead Advanced, OAIster (university archives),

Killer Info, WiseNut, HotBot, Lycos, NBCi.com, Webcrawler, Wayback Machine (archived web pages), Daypop , Rocket News (for breaking news);

For comparing:

Twingine, Thumbshots, Jux2

Special Search Engines:

CiteSeer (who's citing whom in scientific publication) OJOSE (Science Journals)

AllSearchEngines (foreign language)

Scirus (science) http://scirus.com

SearchEric.org (education) http://searcheric.org

SOSIG (Social Sciences) http://www.sosig.ac.uk/

HUMBUL (Humanities) http://www.humbul.ac.uk/

Biography Center http://www.biography-center.com/

PSIGate: Physical Science Information Gateway http://www.psigate.ac.uk/

GESource (Geography Gateway) http://www.gesource.ac.uk/home.html

Peter's PolySearch Engines (Dictionaries, Biographies, Reference)

National Science Digital Library http://nsdl.org, RedLightGreen (for books)

Time Magazine Archive

Metasearch Engines

(Search across multiple

search tools)

A9, Clusty, Rollyo, Ask.com  Ixquick Metasearch,  Similicio.us,  Keotag, whonu, Answers,com,

Ithaki Metasearch, Icerocket

BrainBoost (question answering/natural language), Turbo10.com, KartOO, Metacrawler, , Dogpile, MetaEureka, Mamma, MetaFind, MetaMission, MetaSearch, QueryServer Metor, Pandia Search Central, Search.com,  SurfWax, Highway61, SearchTurtle, WebScout, Proteus

Subject Directories

(Selected and organized by people)

Librarian's Index to the Internet, Google Directory, DMOZ (Open Directory Project), netTrekker, Yahoo! Directory,

Multnomah Homework Center, Noodelinks, High School Hub, Pinakes (subject launchpad) LibrarySpot, About.com , IPL Pathfinders, Academic Info (scholarly), BUBL LINK (scholarly), Infomine (scholarly), DeskRef, Dewey Browse, CyberDewey, Digital Librarian, Awesome Library, Best Information on the Internet Galaxy,

Internet Public Library, Invisible Web,

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators,

Kid Info, LookSmart, Open Directory Project, Virtual LRC, WWW Virtual Library, TrackStar,  What You Seek