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Popular Search Engines

Finding People and Places

Academic Web Search Tools

These search engines index more research-oriented sites and are all recommended by your librarians. Check other academic search engines.

Digital Librarian
"A librarian's choice of the best of the Web"

Librarians' Internet Index
A searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 7,500 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians...a reliable and efficient guide to described and evaluated Internet resources.

Intute
"Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database contains 123330 records."

Searching the Internet
Compilation of search engines and indexes and other guides to Internet searching from Linda Bertland, librarian in the School District of Philadelphia

Librarians' Resource Centre
Organized into three major divisions. "Reference Resources" provides links to search engines, topical guides, ready reference and databases on the net. "Subject-Specific Resources" presents web resources specific to particular topics. The third section is devoted to professional development for library and information professionals.

InfoMine
A treasure trove of reliable information from the Library of California.

Scirus
Science-specific search engine covering 150 million web pages

All about Search Engines

SearchEngine Watch
Find all the search engines you need based on subject specialty and keep up with changes and trends.

Web Searching Tips
Provides tips on using search engines better, along with some fun facts such as what people search for on search engines.

Search Engine Showdown
What's hot, what's gone, latest reviews, analysis, and comparison tables. Don't miss Search Engines Features Chart.

The Invisible Web

Complete Planet
A vast reservoir of Internet content that is 500 times larger than the known "surface" World Wide Web.

DirectSearch
A growing compilation of links to the search interfaces of resources that contain data not easily or entirely searchable/accessible from general search tools.

USA.gov
A one-stop shopping site of all sorts of in-depth government info.

How to Search

Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need from NoodleTools

Guide to Effective Searching of the Internet
This tutorial is organized to proceed from the basics to more advanced topics.

Toolkit for the Expert Searcher
Created by librarian Pat Ensor for librarians and everyone else too!

New Search Engines

PicSearch
A search engine for pictures and images. Search for images, animations in color and black and white. Make sure you try its advanced search for best results.

Search Engine News

Major Search Engines
A comprehensive list and description of all search engines

Best Search Tools
from InfoPeople, a project of the State Library of California and member libraries