Web Search Tools
A9.com General-purpose search engine from Amazon that also includes "Search Inside the Book" results.
_______________________ Academic Index MetaSearch tool that generates results from research-quality reference and information sources selected by the education community.
_______________________ Accoona Accoona is a search engine with interactive tools that provides users with web, business and news results; powered by proprietary Artificial Intelligence technology.
_______________________ AlltheWeb Searches over 2 billion fully indexed webpages along with news,
pictures, videos, mp3 files, and ftp files.
_______________________ AltaVista AltaVista's search tabs, located
on top of the search box, allows you to search in the following
areas: Web, Images, MP3/Audio, Video, Directory or News.
_______________________ Answers.com Contains over a million topics, covering people, places, words and names, drawn from atlases, dictionaries, encyclopedias, websites, etc.
_______________________ Asian Studies Search Engines These search engines specialise in scholarly information related to online research, teaching and publishing about Asia and related regions and topics.
_______________________ Ask.com Ask uses a natural language search engine that responds to questions, phrases, or single words.
_______________________ Beaucoup Search over a dozen search engines at one time, or click on one of the subject links from the main page to find specialized search tools and databases on specific topics.
_______________________ Bielefeld Academic Search Engine BASE focuses on scholarly information on the web (digitised collections, institutional repositories, pre-print-servers, electronic journals, etc), and can be searched by a basic search using a single search field and by an advanced search with multiple search fields and more sophisticated search options.
_______________________ BiologyBrowser Browse for information in the life sciences by geography, organisms, and subject.
_______________________ BizSeer BizSeer catalogs and indexes academic business documents.
_______________________ Blinkx Video search engine allowing users to find online news, movie trailers, and popular multimedia segments from BBC News, CNN, Comedy Channel, YouTube, History Channel, NYTimes, etc.
_______________________ Business Seek Businesseek provides a comprehensive small business directory on the Internet, a business search engine, news, stock quotes, advice, and much more.
_______________________ ChunkIt Search engine that refines results from other search engines and databases, and displays chunks of text surrounding the key words.
_______________________ ClickZ ClickZ provides users with statistics and Web marketing information.
_______________________ ClipBlast ClipBlast, a video search engine, crawls the web in search of video, then categorizes video files, web pages, and feeds so that the most relevant clips can be served up in real-time, on demand.
_______________________ Clusty Clusty, owned and operated by Vivísimo, uses a Clustering Engine to narrow and organize search results into folders grouping similar items together.
_______________________ Cuil Web search engine that ranks pages based on their content and relevance (web site states it is the "World's Biggest Search Engine".
_______________________ CyberStacks CyberStacks is a centralized, integrated, and unified collection
of significant Internet resources
categorized using the Library of Congress classification scheme.
_______________________ Ditto Ditto is a visual search engine allowing users to navigate the Web through pictures.
_______________________ DMOZ Open Directory Project Comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web.
_______________________ Dogpile Dogpile uses innovative metasearch technology to search the Internet's
top search engines, including Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, Ask Jeeves,
About, FAST, FindWhat, LookSmart, and many more.
_______________________ Echo Catalogues, annotates, and reviews sites on the history of science, technology, and industry.
_______________________ eMolecules Formerly Chmoogle, eMolecules is an open-access chemistry search engine designed to discover, curate, and index public chemical information.
_______________________ EULER - Portal to Mathematics Publications Search engine for locating and retrieving materials relating to mathematics available on the internet.
_______________________ Exalead Web search engine that allows users to find material by language, country, file format, domain or site, and modification date.
_______________________ Fealth A health search engine allowing users to browse and search health topics, limit to Government health sites, and browse daily health statistics.
_______________________ FindArticles LookSmart's FindArticles allows users to search and read over 2 million articles from over 500 publications.
_______________________ Freesearch UK based web search destination which includes a separate Picture Search and an Online Dictionary.
_______________________ Geniusfind Directory of thousands of search engines, databases, and archives organized into categories and subcategories.
_______________________ Gigablast Gigablast allows users to undertake sophisticated queries that are not
supported in most other search engines.
_______________________ GlobalSpec The Engineering Web limits searching to technical and engineering-related Web sites.
_______________________ Google Provides comprehensive coverage of the web.
_______________________ Google Book Search View the entirety of public domain books or, for books under copyright, just a few pages or in some cases, only the title’s bibliographic data and brief snippets.
_______________________ Google Maps Google Maps allows users in the United States to find location information, navigate through maps, and get directions.
_______________________ Google Scholar Enables users to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
_______________________ Google U.S. Government Search Offers a single location for searching across government information, and for keeping up to date on government news.
_______________________ Grokker Generates visual maps of search results with related topics and categories.
_______________________ HealthVault Searches for healthcare articles and health information on the Web.
_______________________ HotBot HotBot contains advanced web filters that allows users to select language, domain, and word limits.
_______________________ IncyWincy This invisible web search engine quickly locates technical reports and other gray literature.
_______________________ Info.com From one search query, info com provides results from 14 search engines and pay-per-click directories, including Google, AltaVista, Looksmart, Fast, Overture, Inktomi, Yahoo! and Ask Jeeves.
_______________________ Infomine Cooperatively built virtual library of both free and subscription
academic and scholarly internet resources.
_______________________ Intute Search for open access resources with original content in a wide range of subject areas.
_______________________ KartOO Kartoo is a meta search engine which presents its results on a map.
_______________________ Knol Knol is a Google service that allows users to discover, write about, collaborate and share knowledge and information.
_______________________ Lalisio Literature Provides access to more than 6 million bibliographic records for books, journal articles, and open access resources.
_______________________ Librarians' Index to the Internet A directory of about 10,000 sites, but search results are considered
to be of the highest quality.
_______________________ Libreka Über die libreka!-Plattform werden Buchinhalte dann als Volltexte im Internet weltweit recherchierbar.
_______________________ LookSmart A large human-compiled directory of web sites.
_______________________ Lycos Similar coverage as AllTheWeb but with a few additional features
that provide guidance for further linking.
_______________________ Metacrawler MetaCrawler works by querying Google, Yahoo!, Search, MSN Search, Ask Jeeves, About, MIVA, LookSmart, and others and then organizing and displaying the results into a uniform format.
_______________________ My Search My Search returns simultaneous search results from Google, AltaVista,
Ask Jeeves, AlltheWeb, and LookSmart.
_______________________ PerX : Engineering Repository Cross Search Subject-based cross-repository search tool for resource discovery in engineering.
_______________________ Picsearch Picsearch is a search engine for pictures and images.
_______________________ Podscope Allow you to search podcasts and other types of multimedia for spoken words within any audio or video file.
_______________________ SCIRUS Scirus searches over 150 million science-specific Web pages, enabling users to find Scientific, Technical and Medical data on the Web, see the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles and journals, and locate university sites and scientists' home pages.
_______________________ SearchMash SearchMash sorts the results into web pages, images, blogs, videos, and Wikipedia entries, all on one screen.
_______________________ SearchMe A web search engine that finds and categorizes results as you type in your terms.
_______________________ Superpages Provides access to United States and Canadian listings of people, government offices, and businesses.
_______________________ Technorati A real-time search engine that tracks weblogs.
_______________________ ubExact ubExact organizes and categorizes web content into actions: See It (reference), Do It (entertain), Shop It (buy), and Find It (navigate).
_______________________ VADS VADS is the online search engine for visual arts with a portfolio of over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in teaching, learning and research in the UK.
_______________________ WordIQ A comprehensive and searchable reference tool for the web offering search results from a diverse array of dictionaries, encyclopedies, thesauri, and other valuable references.
_______________________ World Wide Science : Global Science Gateway Searches an array of databases found in over a dozen science portals with only one query.
_______________________ Yahoo! Originally just a subject directory, it now is a search engine, directory, and portal.
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