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| General Search Engines | Multi-Search Engines | Special Topic Search Engines & Web Directories |
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| General Search Engines | Description |
| Gigablast | |
| Top-rated search engine for relevancy; "refreshes" indexed web pages more frequently than most other search engines. | |
| HotBot | Another version of the Yahoo! database. Can choose between databases Hotbot (Yahoo!), Google, or Ask Jeeves (Teoma). |
| MSN | Microsoft's search engine |
| Wisenut | Human reviewers judge quality of webpages indexed based on links to other pages. |
| Yahoo | Top-rated search engine for relevancy; result lists include human-reviewed titles and descriptions. Owns AlltheWeb, AltaVista, Inktomi, and Overture. |
| Academic Search Engines | Description |
| Academic Info | Educational Subject Directory - Online Degree Programs - Test Preparation Resources |
| Answers.com | Searches and cross-indexes online research tools looking for a fast succinct answer |
| BUBL Information Service | Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas (UK) |
| Google Scholar | Search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. |
| INFOMINE | Scholarly Internet resource collections |
| Live Search Academic | Indexes and abstracts the contents of academic journals and conference proceedings. |
| LUKOL Directory | Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas |
| Scirus | Selected Internet resources covering scientific information |
| WWW Virtual Library | Subject Guide Directory |
| Multi-Search Engines | Description |
| DogPile | Searches LookSmart, GoTo.com, Thunderstone, Yahoo!, Open Directory, About.com, Direct Hit, Lycos, and AltaVista. It offers other searches for Usenet, FTP, News Wires, Business News, Stock Quotes, Weather, Yellow Pages, White Pages, and maps. |
| Metacrawler | Simultaneously searches Lycos, WebCrawler, Infoseek, Excite, Thunderstone, AltaVista, GoTo, and Yahoo. |
| Search.com | Searches AltaVista, All The Web (Fast Search), Google, Lycos, WebCrawler, Thunderstone, Infoseek, Direct Hit, HotBot, Excite, Galaxy, and NationalDirectory. |
| Special Topic Search Engines & Web Directories | Description |
| Addresses.com | Find email addresses on the Internet |
| Anywho.com | |
| Grassroots | Social Science Web Directory. |
| The Great Lakes | Directory of web sites related to the Great Lakes region. |
| Health News Directory | Links to web covering major health topics. |
| KidsClick! | Directory of web sites for kids selected by librarians. |
| Picsearch | Search Internet picture files. |
| Switchboard.com | |
| Topica (formerly Liszt) | Directory of email newsletters and discussion groups. |
| Wayback Machine | Archive of old web pages. |
| Yahoo! People Search | Find other people that have registered. Search by high school or college affiliation. |
Updated November 12, 2007