Search Engines :::
Search Engines
Google
The largest search engine with a huge number of hits. Unique features
are Google News and Google Maps. Searchers can us double quotes " " for phrases,
+(pluses before words to make sure they are seached especially common words) and -(minuses to get
rid of annoying words)
Bing
The newest search engine to come on the scene.
Ask. Com
Largest competitor to Google. Unique feature is its Popularity Ranking. Searchers can
use double quotes, minueses and pluses.
MSN.Com
Microsoft's search engine with a useful Related Search feature.
Yahoo!Search
Huge. Uses quotes, pluses and minuses. Also uses AND, OR, NOT (must be
captialized)
MetaSearchers
Dogpile
Searches Google, Yahoo, Looksmart, Ask Jeeves, MSN Search simultaneously.
Clusty
Takes the results of several well known search engines and clusters the sites for more
effective results. (Formerly Vivisimo)
Surfwax
Searches several search engines and news sites and puts them in a handy list that can be
sorted in several ways.
Directories
About.com
One million sites selected by expert "guides."
Academic Info: Educational Subject Directory
25,000 handpicked resources for high school and college students.
Infomine Scholarly Internet Resource
Collections
125,000 well annotated sites for academic research.
Librarians Index to the Internet
Sites chosen by librarians on all topics.