INTERNET: SEARCH: RESOURCES: A Selection of Excellent Internet Search Engines and Internet Search Tool Lists

[David P. Dillard]

INTERNET: SEARCH: RESOURCES:
A Selection of Excellent Internet Search Engines and
Internet Search Tool Lists

This post contains a collection of links to important search engines and
to lists of search tools on the internet including lists of search engines
for specific countries and for specific subject fields in some of these
lists of search engines.


Search Engines

Google
<http://www.google.com>

Yahoo
<http://www.yahoo.com>

Teoma
<http://www.teoma.com>

All the Web
<http://www.alltheweb.com/>

Overture
<http://www.content.overture.com/d/>

Search Engine Colossus
<http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/>

Search Engine Colossus offers you links to search engines and directories
from 198 countries and 60 territories around the world

Google Image Search
http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi&q=
<http://images.google.com/>

Google Groups
<http://groups-beta.google.com/>
Indexes content of newsgroup discussion groups and electronic newsletters

Google News
<http://news.google.com/>

Froogle
<http://froogle.google.com/>
Smart shopping through Google

Google Catalogs
<http://catalogs.google.com/>
Search and browse mail-order catalogs online

Google Maps
<http://maps.google.com/>

Google Print
<http://print.google.com/>
Search the full text of books

Google Scholar
<http://scholar.google.com/>
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly
literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints,
abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.

Google Uncle Sam
<http://www.google.com/unclesam>
Government sources on the internet.

Google's University Search
<http://news.google.com/intl/en/options/universities.html>

Google Web Search Features
<http://news.google.com/help/features.html>

Google Web Search Features
In addition to providing easy access to more than 8 billion web pages,
Google has many special features to help you to find exactly what you're
looking for. Click the title of a specific feature to learn more about it.
<http://news.google.com/help/features.html>

o Book Search - New! Use Google to search the full text of books.

o Cached Links View a snapshot of each page as it looked when we indexed
it.

o Calculator Use Google to evaluate mathematical expressions.

o Currency Conversion - New! Easily perform any currency conversion.

o Definitions Use Google to get glossary definitions gathered from
various online sources.

o File Types Search for non-HTML file formats including PDF documents
and others.

o Froogle To find a product for sale online, use Froogle - Google's
product search service.

o I'm Feeling Lucky Bypass our results and go to the first web page
returned for your query.

o Local Search Search for local businesses and services in the U.S., the
U.K., and Canada.

o Movies - New! Use Google to find reviews and showtimes for movies
playing near you.

o News Headlines Enhances your search results with the latest related
news stories.

o PhoneBook Look up U.S. street address and phone number information.

o Q&A - New! Use Google to get quick answers to straightforward
questions.

o Results Prefetching - New! Makes searching in Firefox faster.

o Search By Number Use Google to access package tracking information, US
patents, and a variety of online databases.

o Similar Pages Display pages that are related to a particular result.

o Site Search Restrict your search to a specific site.

o Spell Checker Offers alternative spelling for queries.

o Stock Quotes - New! Use Google to get live stock quotes and
information.

o Street Maps Use Google to find U.S. street maps.

o Travel Information Check the status of an airline flight in the U.S.
or view airport delays and weather conditions.

o Weather - New! Check the current weather conditions and forecast for
any location in the U.S.

o Web Page Translation Provides English speakers access to a variety of
non-English web pages.

o Who Links To You? Find pages that point to a specific URL.

Soople Easy Expert Search
http://www.soople.com/

Scirus
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/

Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the
Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches
over 200 million science-specific Web pages

Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
http://base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/index_english.html

Yahoo! Search Subscriptions
<http://search.yahoo.com/subscription/>

Vivsimo
<http://vivisimo.com/>

Clusty
<http://clusty.com/>

PubMed Clinical Queries
<http://web.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/clinical.shtml>

Finding information: search engines
<http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm>

OAIster
<http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/>

Search Engine Watch
<http://searchenginewatch.com/>

W3 Search Engines XML
<http://cui.unige.ch/meta-index.html>
This Website is no longer updated

Multisubject Guides To Specialized Search Engines
<http://www.searchability.com/>

Search Engines Worldwide
<http://home.inter.net/takakuwa/search/search.html>

Ivy's Search Engine Resources for Kids
<http://www.ivyjoy.com/rayne/kidssearch.html>

A Collection of Special Search Engines
http://www.leidenuniv.nl/ub/biv/specials.htm

A Grab Bag of (Mainly) Free Bibliographies and Bibliographic Databases on
the Web
<http://www.leidenuniv.nl/ub/biv/freebase.htm>

European Search Engines, Directories and Lists
<http://www.netmasters.co.uk/european_search_engines/>

Yahoo
Search Engines and Directories
<http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/
Searching_the_Web/Search_Engines_and_Directories/>

A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://snipurl.com/3cal>

Search Engine Resources
Refdesk.com
<http://www.refdesk.com/newsrch.html

Country based search engines
<http://www.philb.com/countryse.htm>

Internet Search Engines
<http://library.albany.edu/internet/engines.html>

How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory
<http://library.albany.edu/internet/choose.html>

Specialized Search Engines and Directories
<http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/specialized.html>

LII: Librarians' Index to the Internet
LII: Recommended Search Tools
<http://lii.org/search/file/searchtools>

Web Search Engines FAQS:
Questions, Answers, and Issues
by Gary Price o Gary Price Research and Internet Consulting
<http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/oct01/price.htm>
<http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/oct01/SearchEngineFAQ.htm>



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