Search Engines
Windseek - A newer meta search engine, searches a variety of other search engines, decent, fast, results.
ASIACO - A search engine for all things Asian.
Teoma - Search Engine similar to Google, but the results are also put into categories
WiseNut - Determines site validity by indicating how many more pages at the site also relate to your search
ILOR - Uses Google but many additional options as you move the mouse over a listing. "iLOR Search results have many more options than regular search sites! When you pause your cursor arrow over a search result using iLOR, an option menu appears that gives you exciting, useful and easier ways to explore the results that are relevant to your search and ignore the ones that are not"
SurfWax - A new meta search engine - searches a variety of other sites, a little slower, but more results. "SurfWax helps you get the best grip on information from the Open Web -- providing the "best use" of relevant search results. SurfWax's patent-pending design is the first to make searching a "visual process," seamlessly integrating meaning-based search with key knowledge-finding elements for effective association and recall."
Vivisimo - A new search engine that organizes your results in clusters.
Pandia - Metasearch engine, but also search for news, radio, images.
Search Engine Watch - A site with comprehensive information on all search engines and a continually updated listing of available search engines - This may really be the only search engine site you need to visit, nearly everything on this web page is probably found there too.
Search Engines and Search Engines Explained
Pandia Search Engines Explained, How To Search, Search Engine Reviews
Search Engine Guide - Site has links to over 3000 search engines
Search Engine Information At All Search Engines.com
University of California Berkeley Tutorials on Using The Internet, Searching The Internet, And More.
The Spider's Apprentice - Web Site devoted to helping you understand and use search engines.
Scinet - Science Search Engine
Google.com - Excellent search engine for educational related topics.
Search EDU - Search Engine that searches education web sites, other good resources found here too.
SearchGov - Search Engine that searches government domain web sites. REALLY large site.
Search Online Dictionaries with One Look - "Think of this web site as a search engine for words and phrases: If you have a word for which you'd like a definition or translation, we'll quickly shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word. If you don't know how to spell the word, we'll help you do that too. No word is too obscure: More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine."
Education World - "A
search engine for educational Web sites only, a place where
educators can find information without searching the entire
Internet;
original content, including lesson plans, practical information for
educators, information on how to integrate technology in the
classroom, and articles written by education experts."
Awesome Library - "Awesome Library organizes the Web with 24,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education."
NatureServe Explorer - Welcome to NatureServe Explorer, a source for authoritative conservation information on more than 50,000 plants, animals, and ecological communities of the United States and Canada. NatureServe Explorer provides in-depth information on rare and endangered species, but includes common plants and animals too.
Find Tutorials.Com - FindTutorials.com is a Web index and search engine dedicated to bringing you the best of the Web's tutorials and online courses. Featuring a large and constantly expanding database, which is categorized and closely monitored to make sure only the best and highest-quality sources are listed, FindTutorials.com allows you to search for tutorials on practically any subject, ranging from photography to gardening to psychology
Education Hound.Com - Education Resources Search Engine - "A Division of ETC Group LLC, is a highly specialized educational directory with built-in resource links offered free to educators, students and parents. EduHound.com seeks to harness the vast information resources of the Web, while enabling educators to use the Internet as a classroom tool.."
Federal Resources For Educational Excellence - Searches educational resources through government agencies.
Researchville - Search engine specializing in finding research information.
University of Michigan Statistical Resources on the Web - If it is data, you will probably find it here.
Find Articles.com - FindArticles.com is a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals.
Cool4Kids - Kids only search engine with over 17,000 links and growing.
Kids Tools For Searching The Internet - Excellent site providing a variety of good options for younger students searching the internet for information
Child Safe Search Engines - A good variety of choices here
Family Source - "Family Source was developed to provide families with a simple way to access relevant, family-friendly information and services. Family Source is a free crawler-based search engine provided by InteliMark Enterprises."
Noodle Tools - "NoodleTools is a suite of interactive tools designed to aid students and professionals with their online research. From selecting a search engine and finding some relevant sources, to citing those sources in MLA or APA style, NoodleTools makes online research easier! ". Site includes information on how to cite web sites in your research paper.
Ask Jeeves - Rated by Technology and Learning Magazine as one of the best four search tools for younger students.
Dibdabdoo.com " searches around 2 million kid/teen safe sites and the database is growing daily. The engine used on Dibdabdoo.com does NOT crawl the Internet and add any site it comes across instead I use fast meta technology that crawls sites and databases that have been reviewed by human's and classified as kid/teen safe. As a baseline for the directory I used modified DMOZ data in conjunction with my own technology that is relevant and safe for kids and teens,...."
Kids Click - Rated by Technology and Learning Magazine as one of the best four search tools for younger students
Yahooligans.Com - Rated by Technology and Learning Magazine as one of the best four search tools for younger students
Onekeykids.com - Search Site For Kids
Index Search Engines are designed to search computers connected to the Internet. Index Based Search Engines create an indexed listing of the pages in those computers.
Digital Librarian - Site maintained by a librarian in Cortland, New York. Site is a listing of links to search and navigation tools.
Altavista - Alta Vista is a good general search engine. Type a word or group of words and Alta Vista will return what it found and a few sentences describing each site. Alta Vista also provides for more complex searches. This site has undergone extensive modifications.
Xrefer - British site for research
Search Site - "Our mission at
SearchSight is to present our visitors with the best of the Internet. We do not
try to compete with the big boys in the search engine industry who attempt to
present all of the Internet
Whether it's a corporation trying to bring the latest innovation to market, an
inner-city student experimenting with a new format for web page layout, or a
stay-at-home mom earning a living by selling ornate soap and candles from her
home-made web site, we believe the Internet is an incredible medium for
presenting useful information. We feel fortunate to be able to present it in our
own way to the World, as we attempt to "Change the way the World Looks at the
Internet!"
Webcrawler - Webcrawler works fine, but does not provide much information on each site found.
Alltheweb.com - Site promises fast, comprehensive searches
Excite - Good search engine
Hotbot -
Overture - Simple and straight forward search engine.
LookSmart - exploring World - Newer search engine, rated lower than a yahoo.
MiningCo.Com - Professional expert guidance from hundreds of Guides for thousands of topics
http://www.einet.net/ - Search engine which seems a bit different, but may be helpful to Social Studies teachers and students.
Library of Congress WWW/Z39.50 Gateway -Library of Congress Z39.50 page allows you to search the resources at the Library of Congress as well as resources located in over 120 servers throughout the world.
University of Texas Listing of Search Engines, Including Foreign Based.
Directory Based Search Engines are designed to search computers connected to the Internet. Internet sites are placed in specific categories. Directory Based Search Engines will usually have less Internet sites listed, but the information is generally of higher quality and greater reliabilty.
http://www.yahoo.com Perhaps the best known of the Directory Based Search Engines. You will probably find what you search for here.
DMOZ -Open Directory Project - Commercial free site. The Open Directory Project's goal is to produce the most comprehensive directory of the web, by relying on a vast army of volunteer editors.
About.com - Human Guides. Human Interests. Expert guidance from hundreds of Guides.
PlanetSearch - Your Web. Your Way. - Try this one
Taxsites - Tax and accounting sites directory. "Tax and Accounting Sites Directory is a comprehensive index of web-based tax and accounting resources. The directory is designed to be a starting point for people who are searching for tax and accounting information, products, and services."
http://www.lycos.com Good Directory Based Search Engine, strong in grapics, web site creation sites.
http://search.aol.com/ - AOL Search is the one place where you can simultaneously search all of AOL and the rest of the Internet.
http://www.search.com - Search Com - provides links to a huge range of general and topical search engines and directories.
Proteus Internet Search - A wide variety of choices and options as you search the Internet.
Search Engine Colossus - Massive site, search for search engines worldwide and in the language of your choice.
IXQUICK.com - claims to be the world's fastest meta, multiple search - search engine, web sites, news sites, pictures.
Search.Com - Name says it all, searches over 800 search engines at the same time.
Allsearchengines.com - very extensive site, multiple search engines and varied topics.
Leiden University Netherlands Unique Search Engines - A rich selection of search engines and information on how to use search engines.
Virtual Search Engines - Over 1,000 fully specialized search engines within 50 categories
Itools.com - Twelve search engines and other specific searches, "Quick Access To The Best Internet Tools."
Locate.com - variety of searches, variety of topics.
http://www.highway61.com - Site with seven search engines
http://www.metacrawler.com - Site with nine search engines - they can all search at the same time - gets good mag reviews
SuperSearch - SuperSearch provides a multi-search-engine-interface implemented in JavaScript. With SuperSearch, you can submit a search query to selected multiple search engines classified in the following categories: Crawlers, Indices, Usenet, People, Meta, Articles, Software, and Unsorted.
Euroseek - Euroseek - European based search engine that covers the globe, you can choose one of several languages, for on screen instructions, but search results will not always be returned in English.
http://www.dogpile.com - Site which searches using a variety of search engines at one time - can be useful tool.
Mamma: Mother of all Search Engines - A newer one on the web
ProFusion - Claims to offer the best meta searching engine around
Vivisimo.Com - New meta search engine which sorts the information you search for
Search The Internet with The Internet Sleuth - Internet Sleuth has the largest, most comprehensive collection of search engines on the Net -- more than 2000 of them. Internet Sleuth covers many specialized databases. The engines are organized into 21 main subject categories and many subcategories. A parallel search engine has recently been installed which allow searching up to 10 databases simultaneously, both on the Home Page and within most of the categories.
SEARCH.COM - Search.com provides the user with direct access to over 250 search engines.
Find Images with Google - Excellent image finder
PicSearch - Search for pictures, usually good results, similar to Google.
Pictures of Places - Over 10,000 places, around the world, can be viewed here.
TimePix - Time Magazine web site, many of their images can be viewed here.
Singing Fish - Audio and video search engine
The Amazing Picture Machine - Variety of pictures stored in a database
United Nations Photobank - Very large database of photos - some use restrictions.
Photographs of the Civil War from the Library of Congress.
Images of American Political History - Approximately 500 public use images available here.
Ditto.Com - The Image Searcher
The NOAA Photo Library - A large collection of photos from many government agencies and projects are stored here.
Find Sounds.Com - Search engine designed to find sound effects on the Internet..
NASA Image eXchange (NIX)" - Web Based search engine for simultaneously searching one or more of NASA's online image and photo collections.
Free Foto - Not a search engine but holds thousands of free downloadable pictures
DayPop - Seach 7,500 news sites and weblogs for current events and breaking news. Includes a top 40 news reports of the day.
Magportal - Find individual articles from many free magazines.
Complete Planet - Search databases and specialty search engines.
The Invisible Web Search Engine
The Invisible Web - Net - Search Engine - Similar name but a very different site. Links to many offbeat databases of public records. A wide range of unique and specialized data.
Infomine - The Scholarly Resource Search Site - A Must Visit Site
Direct Search - "Direct search is a growing compilation of links to the search interfaces of resources that contain data not easily or entirely searchable/accessible from general search tools like Alta Vista, Google, or Hotbot. Although these "general" tools are essential for the retrieval of Internet based data, searchers often fail to realize that a massive amount of information is not easily or entirely searchable/accessible via these search tools. Material "hidden" from the general search tools is said to reside on the Invisible Web."
USA Business Advisor - USA Government Search Site
Switchboard.com - Yellow pages, white pages, product finder, find a place using a phone number.
Telephone directories on the web - Site claims to be the most complete index of online phone books, yellow pages, white pages, business directories.
Zip2.Com - Find a business, locate a person, get instant online directions, including maps.
Military Search - Military Links, Support Searches
Internet Service Providers Search Engines
The List - The List is a directory of worldwide Internet Services Providers currently known to be active. It contains over 4000 entries. The List allows you to find a provider that offers the access sspeed and computing services that satisfy your needs and budget. You can search to find a provider by name or domain name.
The List.Com - the definitive buyer's guide to Internet Service Providers--those companies that provide access to the Internet. The List™ allows you to find a provider that offers the access speed and computing services that satisfy your needs and budget. Click one of the search options below to use the most comprehensive and accurate directory of ISPs
A-1 list of Internet Access / Web Presence Pr... -
Internet Access Providers Meta-List
Check To See If Your ISP Call Is In The A Band
SBC Local Call Look Up - If you are using an online service at home to connect to the internet, you may find this site useful. It will show you which calls are to exchanges that are within your "A" Band. Exchanges in your own "A" Band are considered local calls, the cheapest phone calls to make.
Sites To Help Evaluate The Reliability Of Internet Sites - Resources
Alexander and Tate - Evaluating Web Sites
Berkeley University Library Guide - Excellent reference for understanding how to evaluate the validity of an Internet Site/Resource
Search Engine Guide - Site has links to over 3000 search engines
Search Engine Colossus - Links to search engines from 217 countries. Search using a variety of language choices. Many other search engines linked through here.
Planet Search - "Planet Search is an international search engine that allows you search the world wide web or search within a particular country for more accurate results."
Adobe PDF Search - Search the web for Adobe PDF files.
HighWire - Search over 12 million indexed articles in over 4,500 Medline journals. Approximately 360 journals offer free content.
Mysearchengines.com - Build your own categories with the search engines of your choice. You can add categories, add up to 12 search engines per category. Chose from a wide variety of options and search engines.
Message board central - Find postings from all over the web on many topics.
Alexa - Alexa will search out information, report how many people visit the site, and what other sites people visit that are similar to what you are searching for.
Artcyclopedia.com - Fine Art Search Engine
www.search.com - site contains over 800 varied search engines.
itools.com - Language tools, research tools, search tools
Direct Hit.com - Search engine which uses individual web users reviews
nbci.com - NBC Corporation Search Engine
Guide To Specialized Search Engines - Site describes and provides links to countless varieties of search engines.
Search Engines By Country - Search Engine Which Shows Search Engines Available By country.
Searchengine.net - large site, many search engines, many unique types
Embassy Search - Searches For Embassies and Consulates
Websearch at About.Com - If there is a certain type of search engine, they probably have it here.
invisibleweb.com - Indexs interactive databases that wouldn't show up in normal search engine results. Site searches for more than web pages.
Movie Review Search Engine - Search through 25,000 titles and over 185,000 movie reviews online.
Public Records Search
Research Public Records - This web site has a huge listing of records and data bases for all states and the public online records you can find available at each state.