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Search Tools/Engines for Searching the Internet

Listed below are a few links to search engines which you can use to search the Internet. It is by no means a complete listing of all the search tools available.

SearchEngineWatch---A site which can help you make sense of what a search engine is, how is works, reviews different search engines and more
DealTime.Com---Try our shopping and comparative shopping resources.
All-In-One Search Site---"Compilation of various forms-based search tools found on the internet."
AltaVista------ "Largest and fastest web index" from Digital Equipment.
Ask Jeeves---"Just type a question and click "Ask!""
Beaucoup---Page with over 600 search sites
Biblical Resources Search
Britannica Search---World Wide Web navigation service that classifies, rates, and reviews more than 65,000 Web sites
Business.Com---Search engine especially for business
C|Net------ Well known tool from C|Net
Clever---seeks to find authoritative sources
Direct Hit--- Direct Hit determines the most popular and relevant sites for your search request
Dogpile---All the best search engines piled into one
Excite Netsearch------ Searches over 1 million web pages.
FirstGov---Gathers web pages from government sites around the country
Google---determines relevance of site by measuring number of pages linking to site
Google Images Search
Google Scholar---"enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research."
HotBot---Well known search tool
Ixquick Metasearch---The world's most powerful metasearch engine
LawCrawler------ Searches legal sites.
Liszt/Topica---Keyword Searchable Directory of More than 55,000 Email Discussion Groups
Lycos------ Well known search tool.
Northern Light---Delivers organized and comprehensive search results--worth checking out
Scirus---"Most comprehensive science-specific search engine available on the Internet"
Search Engine Colossus---International Directory of Search Engines
Search.com---SearchIQ provides independent reviews and rankings to help you make informed choices in selecting search tools
Search Engine Guide---Provides a directory of thousands of specialty search engines
Subjex---Full Sentence Dialogue-Based Search Engine
UniGuide Academic Guide to the Internet
Virtual Search Engines---Offers the most popular Web Search Engines--Over 800 fully specialized search engines within 45 categories
WebBrain---lets you search the Web visually
WISEnut---"fastest, smartest and most comprehensive search engine"
Yahoo------Indexes "the best of the web".
All of the above links will provide help/information/tips about using their search tools. You may want to take advantage of the help to get the best search results.
This page compiled by Marsha Keenan  Last update January 2005
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