Search Tools
Search Engines
- Google — The most popular search engine on the Web
- Yahoo — The popular search and portal site, with guides to News, Sports, Weather, Finance and more
- Ask — Another popular search engine
- SearchMe — This new search engine has a visual interface that makes it easy to quickly flip through stacks of screenshots, images or videos.
- Cuil — Pronounced “Cool,” the site is named for the Irish Gaelic word for “knowledge,” and it claims to index more pages than any other search engine.
- GoodSearch — This search engine, powered by Yahoo, donates half of its advertising revenue to the charities, libraries and schools designated by the user.
Specialized Search Engines
- Truveo: Search Video across the Web — Truveo can help you find videos from many different news and information sites
Selective Directories
- LII.Org: Librarians’ Index to the Internet — A large, browsable, searchable directory of websites selected and maintained by librarians for the general public.
- InfoMine — A large directory of websites selected and maintained by librarians for the academic community.
MetaSearch Sites
The following sites search multiple search engines at the same time:
More on Search Engines
- Search Engine Watch — Learn more about search engines and how to use them
- Search Engine Showdown — Greg R. Notess created and maintains this users’ guide to Web searching, which compares and evaluates Internet search engines from the searcher’s perspective.
