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See also Google Web Directory, Google searches in other languages, and Goggle university searches

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• Information from Libraries
  • Infotrac® Information
  • University of Minnesota
    • UMD
      • Library Catalog Search
      • Electronic Resources
      • Search Engines
      • "Find It"
      • WWW Sites
      • UM Directories
        
    • Duluth Public Library
    • Other Libraries -- Wisconsin, Minnesota, Library of Congress, etc.
      • Canadian Library Gateway
    • The Virtual Reference Library -- Toronto Public Library
      
      
• General Search Engines
  
  
  • AltaVista (Note images, video, and MP3/audio tabs at top)
  • FAST Search -- claims to be the world's biggest search engine
  • Northern Light
    • Northern Light Search Alert Service
  • Yahoo

  
  

• Meta-search engines -- call out several search engines on the internet at once
  • Inference Find -- clusters the results into neat understandable groupings
  • MetaCrawler
  • Highway 61
  • Dogpile
  • Searchpower.com -- "The World's largest search engine directory."
    
    
• Specialized Searches
  • Student Advantage: Academic Research Engine
  • Direct Hit -- popularity engine (lets you know "hot" sites)
  • Excite Precision Search --search engine that focuses on relevant results
  • FindArticles.com -- full-text articles in over 350 magazines and journals (from 1998)
  • AltaVista (Note images, video, and MP3/audio tabs at top)
  • Legal Engine -- federal law, state law, federal, international, cyberlaw, reference, etc.
  • Scour.Net -- search for audio, video, images, and animation
  • Lycos RichMedia -- pictures, movies, streams, and sounds
    
  • Google --popularity engine
  • Langenberg Search -- search by category
  • SearcheBooks.com -- search the full text of "thousands" of online books
  • SearchEdu.com -- searches university and education pages
  • The Spire Project -- research guide and search-engine alternative
  • Ask Jeeves -- ask simple-language questions
  • deja.com -- searches for newsgroups,
  • Liszt -- directory of list servers
  • WhoWhere -- for finding people
    
    
• Specific Subjects / Areas
  • FacultyOnline.com -- textbook information
  • Psychoanalytic Literature -- American Psychoanalytic Association
  • Social Science Information Gateway
    Internet Scout Project
    
    

  Searching Tips

  • BARE BONES 101: A BASIC TUTORIAL ON SEARCHING THE WEB
  • Tutorial: Guide to Effective Searching of the Internet -- The WebTools Company
  • Web Searching, Sleuthing and Sifting -- Angela Elkordy
  • Search Engine Comparison Chart -- UMD Library
  • Search Engine Showdown -- reviews, search tips, etc.
  • SearchIQ -- ratings, tips, and speciality searches
    
    
• Search-engine Performance Review
  • Search Engine Watch
    • ataglance -- (a very handy references)

Search Engines

Other Useful / Interesting Sites

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