Specialized Search Engines

Unique ways to search for and access unique content

Directories instead of Search Engines

Open Directory Project - a web directory made by volunteers

Librarian's Index to the Internet - sites selected for quality by librarians

Visual Search

WebBrain - for visually browsing the Open Directory Project

Find Audio Clips

FindSounds.com

Find Image or Video Clips

AltaVista PhotoFinder - find photos, images, audio and video clips

PicSearch - high relevance between keywords associated with indexed pictures

Google Images - Google tool to search for images

Google Video - Google tool to search for videos

Find Government Information

Firstgov - an official US government web site; search or browse by subject

Find People

Zabasearch - a powerful people search

Qwestdex - Qwest's directory (incl. Duluth area)

AnyWho - search for business or residential listings

InfoSpace - search for business or residential listings

Reverse Phone Directory - look up people and addresses by telephone number

WhoWhere - Lycos' search tool for people and businesses

Find News

Google News - Google's news tool links out to other sites strong in foreign newspapers

Yahoo News - Yahoo's news tool is a direct publisher of wire services and other sources. Updated continuously.

Excite News - updated 4 times a day; archived for a few weeks

TotalNEWS.com - updated every few hours; archived for one year

Invisible Web - Find information stored in databases on the web

Gary Price's Direct Search - a directory of free, subject-specific databases

Complete Planet - a search engine of free database content

International - Search the search engines of other countries

European Search Engines - links to smaller European search engines

Search Engine Colossus - links to smaller search engines in countries worlrdwide