Search Engines
Deep Web Search Engines
Image Search Engines
Blog Search Engines
Wiki Search Engines
Discussion List Search Engines
Podcast Search Engines
Teaching Web Searching
Meta Search Engines
Subject Guides & Directories
Lists of Search Tools
Rating & Review Service
People and Business Search Tools
Specialty Search Tools
Help with Using Search Tools and Searching the Internet
Subject Search Tools

== This means that this search engine provides a subject breakdown of the terms used in the search.

Search Engines


A search engine is a software program that enables you to search an index that has been created by a tool called a spider, or crawler, or robot. The spider's job is to search the Internet for pages to put into the index.  These search tools in this category all  use a spider to crawl the Internet.  Use search engines when you want to find everything on a topic, or if your topic is very specific.
Accoona
AlltheWeb
AltaVista
AOL Search
Ask.com
BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
Boolify
Clusty
Cuil
Excite
Fagan Finder
Fazzle
Gigablast
Google
Google Books
Google Scholar
HotBot
iBoogie
iWon
Lycos
MSN
Mooter
Netscape Search
Powerset
Scitopia
Searchmash
Yahoo
Zuula

For a list of more search engines, see Danny Sullivian's list of Major Search Engines at his SearchEngineWatch page.
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Meta Search Engines or Metacrawlers
Meta search engines allow you to search more than one search engine at once. There are two main kinds of meta search engines:  those that bring together many search tools on one page and allow you to perform searches on those search tools one at a time, and those that allow you to search several search tools at once.
800Go
CurryGuide
Dogpile
Don Busca
Eureka!
FindForward
ISleuth
Ixquick
iZito
Jux2
KartOO
KillerInfo
Mamma
Metacrawler
MetaEUREKA
Searchy
SuperCrawler
SortFix
SurfWax
Virtual Search Engines
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Deep Web Search Engines

A9
CloserLook Search
Complete Planet
Direct Search
Search.com
Turbo10
Deep Search the Invisible Internet
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Ask a Question sites

Askville by Amazon
Yahoo Answers
More Ask a Question Sites

Social Search Engines (Web 2.0)

Eurekster Swicki
Rollyo
Clusty
Wink
Lexxe Search Engine

Image Search Engines

AltaVista-Image Search
Ditto
Google Image Search
Photo Search
Shambles Image Search
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Blog Search Engines

Big List of Blog Search Engines
BlogSearchEngine
Blogdigger
Clutsy Blog Search
Google Blog Search
Technorati
BlogPluse
Topix: Top Stories in the Blogosphere
Ask.com Blogs
BlogLines
IceRocket
Cybell
Weblogs Compendium: Feeddbus
Blog Directory

Wiki Search Engines

Qwika

Discussion List Search Engines

Google Groups
Catalist
Tile.net
Topica
Yahoo Groups

Podcast Search Engines

Podscope
Podcast Search Engines
Yahoo Audio Search

Subject Guides and Directories

A subject guide or directory is a list of Internet sites that have been categorized or assigned a subject by a human.  They are going to be much smaller that the search engines, but sometimes more useful that the search engines because often search engines bring back millions of pages and the first ones listed many not be the best.  A directory has far fewer sites but they are likely to be the better ones. Use a directory when you want fewer hits to look through.


About.com
Awesome Library
BUBL Information Service
CyberDewey
CyberStacks
Dmoz Open Directory Project
Family Internet
Free Internet Encyclopedia
Google Directory
INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
Internet Library for Librarians
Internet Public Library
Internet Scout Project
Librarian's Internet Index
Intute
KidsClick
LookSmart
Robert Niles.com
Specialized Search Engines Index
Virtual Private Library
World-Wide Web Virtual Library
Yahoo!

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Lists of Internet Search Tools
Meta search engines usually allow you to search several search engines from the same page. There are other places on the Internet that just list the names of search tools, or evaluate search tools. This  is where they are located.

Beaucoup
Individual Search Engines
Geoffery's List of Search Engines & Directories
Internet Search Engine Directory
Search Links: Search Engines Worldwide
Top 100 Alternative Search Engines
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Rating and Review Services
The search tools in this category all use some criteria to select the Internet resources in their directory.  Sure, most directories are filled with sites that have been chosen by an editor, but these sites in this category evaluate and rate Internet sites.

All the Best Cool Sites on the Web
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People and Business Search Tools
These search tools allow you to search for specific types of information such as:  names, addresses,  phone numbers, and e-mail addresses.
555-1212.com
Four11 Directory Services
Infobel World
InfoSpace
Reunion.com
Switchboard
Tile.net
Whowhere.com
Pipl-People Search
411Locate
People Finder Guide
Other Directories

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Specialty Search Tools
These are search tools that don't fit anywhere else
Internet Archive
OAIster Search Interface: Search Digital Collections

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Teaching Web Searching
Ranking.com
SiteLines
Yakeo

Help with Using Search Tools and Searching the Internet
 
 
AskScott
Search Engine Colossus

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Subject Search Tools

Subject search tools search only one main topic. Subject search tools will be found under each topic on the Library's Internet Resources by Subject page
 


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