LIST OF SEARCH ENGINES

Source: Internettutorials.net

General Search Engines

Alexawebsearch.com

Ask.com

Bing.com

Blekko.com

Chacha.com

Exalead.com

Factbites.com

Findfiles.net

Google.com

Ecosmartsearch.com - a Google-powered search engine with a black background display that saves
energy.

Hakia.com

Iseekeducation.com

Lycos.com

Quintura.com

Searched.com / searchmill.com / searchgov.com

Snappyfingers.com

Wolfram/alpha

Yahoo.com

Zanran.com
 Meta search engines
43marks.com

Browsys.com

Cactisearh.com

Dogpile.com

Favitt.com

Iboogie.com

Ixquick.com

Mamma.com

Metacrawler.com

Searchzooka.com

Sortfix.com

url.com

virtual learning resources center

zapmeta.com

zuula.com

searchenginesindex.com

altavista.com
 Speciality Searches
Subject Directories & Encyclopedias
Academic & Professional Directories

Academic Info - gateway to college and research level Internet resources maintained by former librarian Mike
Madin and a volunteer group of subject specialists
BUBL Link - UK funded project of selective resources from the Centre for Digital Library Research of Strathclyde
University in Glasgow, Scotland
INFOMINE - large collection of scholarly Internet resources collectively maintained by several libraries, including
those from the University of California
ipl2 - large, selective collection maintained by students and professionals in library and information science; the
collection is the result of a merger of the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII).
Subject Guides A to Z - extensive collection of subject pages from the University of Delaware Library
The WWW Virtual Library - guides to many disciplines sponsored by the W3 Consortium

Commercial Directories & Portals

About.com - large collection of topical collections gathered by company-certified subject specialists

All My Faves - hyperlinked logos for dozens of sites organized within categories; users can create a personal
homepage called a Mini Fave that consists of a visual display of their bookmarks
Google Directory - version of the Open Directory Project using the Google PageRank technology
JoeAnt - guide compiled by volunteers; each listing is accompanied by an information page that includes a site
description, related JoAnt listings and keywords, and its Alexa ranking
Open Directory Project - significant resource collection compiled by thousands of volunteer editors owned by
America Online and promising extensive expansion.
Yahoo! Directory - directory contained within the well-known Yahoo! portal

Encyclopedias

Mashpedia - real-time, social encyclopedia that combines Wikipedia articles with the latest news, videos,
images, Twitter messages and relevant links
Wikipedia - wiki-based major encyclopedia, available in many languages, that anyone can edit

Directories maintained by volunteers JoeAnt | Open Directory Project (DMOZ)

 Fields & File Types
If you want to Choose...
search for...
Audio/Music Dogpile | FindSounds.com | Free-
Loops.com |Pandora | Singingfish | Soundsnap YouTube
See also Podcasts/Videos below
Date last Many advanced search pages offer this, including:
modified Google Advanced Search | Searchzooka | Yahoo Advanced Web Search
Domain/Site/UR Many advanced search pages offer this, including:
L AOL Advanced Search | Google Advanced
Search |SearchEdu.com | Searchzooka | Yahoo Advanced Web Search
File type FindFiles.net
Many advanced search pages offer limited options for file type searching, including:
AOL Advanced Search | Yahoo Advanced Web Search
Geographic Many advanced search pages offer this, including:
location Google Advanced Search | Searchzooka | Yahoo Advanced Web Search
Images Ask.com Images | BestPicturesOf | Bing | Dogpile |Google Image
Search | IceRocket | Ixquick | Mamma| PicFog | Picsearch | RevIMG | Tiltomo | Tin
Eye
Language Many advanced search pages offer this, including:
AOL Advanced Search | Google Language Tools |iBoogie Advanced Web
Search | Searchzooka |Yahoo Advanced Web Search
Multimedia & Bing | Blinx | Clicker | ClipBlast | Dogpile | Singingfish| Yahoo Video
video Search | YouTube | Zuula
Page Title/URL Many advanced search pages offer this, including:
AOL Advanced Search | Google Advanced Search |Searchzooka | Yahoo
Advanced Web Search

Search logic
If you want to use... Choose...
Boolean operators Google [OR only] | Ixquick
Full Boolean logic with parentheses Usually available on the advanced search
e.g., behavior and (cats or felines) page
Implied Boolean +/- Most search engines offer this option
Boolean logic using search form terminology Most advanced search pages offer this option
Proximity searching Exalead

Search options
 If you want..
Search topics appear as you type
A user fill-in search form
Truncation
Live human guides
Your search stated in plain English
Translation of pages retrieved as search
results, or any text or Web page, to and from
selected languages
An exact phrase within quotations
An exact phrase using search form
terminology
Multiple search tools searched simultaneously
with duplicate records removed
Multiple search tools searched simultaneously
with results available separately
Choose...
Many engines offer this, including:
Ask.com | Bing | Blekko | Google | iSEEK
Education |SurfWax LookAhead (RSS
feeds) | Yahoo!
Many search engines offer this on their
advanced search pages
Exalead | Ixquick
ChaCha
Ask.com | Hakia | Ixquick
Babel Fish
Most search engines offer this option
Most forms on an advanced search page offer
this
iBoogie | Ixquick | Mamma more...
Browsys | Searchzooka | SortFix | Zuula

Search Results
If you Choose...
want...
Results iBoogie | iSEEK Education | Quintura | Search.com
clustered
by concept
and/or type
of site
(often laid
out as a
"horizontal"
list of
topics in
addition to
a single
vertical list
of results)
Results Eurekster Swicki | Google | Trexy | URL.com
influenced
by
searcher
behavavior
or ratings
Option to Ask | Bing | Dogpile | Exalead | Factbites | Google |Mamma | MetaCrawler | Monster
search on Crawler |Search.com | SortFix
related
terms or
topics
Results Bing | Exalead | Lycos | Zanran
with
thumbnail
images or
excerpts of
retrieved
sites
Search Google Alert | Swamii | TracerLock
alerts

Specialty Searches
If you want to search... Choose...
The Deep Web (i.e., vertical search, Visit a topic-specific engine, e.g., PubMed, or try to
not generally covered by search locate one using a general search engine.
spiders)
Blogs Ask.com | BlogPulse | Globe of Blogs | Google Blog
Search | regator | Technorati | Yahoo News
Search |Zuula
Numerical facts, data and statistics Wolfram|Alpha | Zanran
Library materials WorldCat
News (many search multiple sources) Alltop | Bing | Congoo News | Google News
Alerts |Google News Archive Search | Google News
Timeline | InfoGrid | NewsNow | Pandia
Newsfinder |Populrs | RocketNews | Topix.com | The
WorldNews Network
Podcasts, Videos Academic Earth | Big
Think | Bloggingheads.tv |Fancast | FORA.tv | iTunes
U | Podcast Search Service | TED | YouTube
RSS feeds Chordata | RSSfeeds.com | SurfWax LookAhead
Saved Web pages, citations Browsys Virtual Folders | CiteULike | Connotea
Scholarly materials, e.g,. books, Google Book Search | Google Scholar | The Online
articles, etc. Books Page | Project Gutenberg | Wikibooks
Site analysis GoLexa
Web events
Your own customized search engine
Reference sources (dictionaries,
encyclopedias, e-mail and address
lookups, calculators, quotations,
news, government info, statistics etc.)
Professionally maintained directories
Directories maintained by volunteers
FindWebEvents.com
Eurekster Swicki | Google Custom Search
Engine |Rollyo
Reference Collection (U Albany Libraries)
About | INFOMINE | Librarians' Internet Index | The
Scout Archives | Virtual Learning Resources
Center |more...
JoeAnt | Open Directory Project (DMOZ)