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| Search Engines | |
| These tools allow you to search the Internet by keyword. They are best used when searching for very specific items rather than general terms. You may find the Subject Directories below or the Internet Subject Guides a better place to begin. Be sure to carefully evaluate what you find. | |
| Ask.com (www.ask.com) | Exalead (www.exalead.com) |
| Gigablast (www.gigablast.com) | Google (www.google.com) |
| Google Scholar (scholar.google.com) | Yahoo (www.yahoo.com) |
| Subject Directories | |
| List of sites organized by topic | |
| About.com (about.com) | Academic Info (www.academicinfo.net) |
| Google Web Directory (directory.google.com) | Librarians' Index to the Internet (www.lii.org) |
| Open Directory Project (dmoz.org) | |
| Metasearch Engines | |
| Search more than one search engine at a time. | |
| Clusty (www.clusty.com) | Dogpile (www.dogpile.com) |
| Ixquick (ixquick.com/eng/) | Kartoo (www.kartoo.com) |
| Mamma (www.mamma.com) | Search.com (www.search.com) |
| SurfWax (www.surfwax.com) | Turboscout (www.Turboscout.com) |
| Vivisimo (www.vivisimo.com) | Webcrawler (www.webcrawler.com/info.wbcrwl/) |
| Specialized Search Tools | |
| Google Image Search A image database that locates Web images. | Ditto.com A visual search engine to locate Web images. |
Blinkx.tv | Podzinger |
| Singingfish: Locate audio, video and streaming media . | FindSounds.com A search engine for sound effects that indexes Web audio files. |
Technorati: | Google Groups: |
Mapquest | Google Local |
Quick Google Maps / Zip Code Tool | InfoSpace |
| Pipl A people search engine that searches deep web pages that cannot be found on regular search engines. | SuperPages.com |
| Wayback Machine Locate old and vanished websites from 1996 to current. | |