WWW Search Engines - Internet Resources

Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial
Search Engine Features Chart
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Google
Google Book Search
Google Directory
Google Scholar
search specifically for scholarly literature, incl peer-reviewed papers, articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities, web

Online Reference Services

• Ask.com
• Atomica
• HighBeam Research
  books, articles, maps, images
• InfoPlease
  freeware, point-and-click searches in any application while online
  reference-based search engine

  Meta-Search Engines

• AllInfo
  "searchable directory of topics focused on web site credibility"
• Beaucoup - Subject-Specific Search Engines
• Cnet's Search.com Search Engines
• Collection of Specialized Search Engines
• EzineSeek - Ezine Directory and Email Publishers' Resources
  academic & recreational by subject
• FinderSeeker
  finds subject-specific search engines by country
• Grokker
  visual web search engine
• The InvisibleWeb
  search & directory site for databases not searched by general web search engines
• Metacrawler
• Search Engine Colossus - International Directory of Search Engines by Country
• "Search Thingy" - Top Ten Search Engines - One search
• Vivisimo
  'clustering engine'
• Wikiseek: Search Wikipedia and its external links
  restricted search to retrieve more authoritative info & limit effect of spam & search engine optimization schemes

  Search Engines

• All the Web
• AltaVista
  includes image, audio and video searching
• The Big Eye
  subject index | search engine | country links
• The Complete Guide to Googlemania
• cRANKy
  "the first age-relevant search engine" from Eons: 50 plus everything for boomers and seniors
• DirectHit.com
  returns results based on site usage
• DogPile
• Forum One - Online Forum Searching, Building, Managing
• Go.com
• Google
  ranks results by number of hits and time spent at site
• Google Groups
  search engine for internet newsgroups
• Google Suggest
  lists suggestions as you type, navigable with arrow keys, helpful with spelling & if only the first word or two of a name or expression are remembered
• HotBot
  incl images search option
• LookSmart
• Lycos
  incl. images search option
• MetaCrawler Searching
  combines 6 major search engines
• MSN Search
• Netscape
• Northern Light
• Oingo
  meaning-based searching
• Search Adobe PDF Online
  searches PDF files and provides summary
• SearchHound
  search engine and web site traffic counter
• Search Terms Glossary
  browsable list of terms associated with searching & search engines
• SeniorSearch
  senior search engine & web directory
• Wikiseek: Search Wikipedia and its external links
  restricted search to retrieve more authoritative info & limit effect of spam & search engine optimization schemes