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).
_______________________ VADLO Vadlo search engine caters to all branches of life sciences.
_______________________ 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.
_______________________ VideoSurf Indexed from thousands of videos found across the web, VideoSurf allows users to visually navigate through their results to easily find the specific scenes, people or moments they most want to see.
_______________________ 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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