Search Engine Showdown
"This site summarizes, reviews, and compares the search features and database scope of Internet search engines and finding aids."
By Greg Notess

Search Engine Watch
"Tips About Internet Search Engines & Search Engine Submission"
"Departments" include: Submission Tips ; Web Searching Tips ; Search Engine Listings ; Reviews, Ratings & Tests ; Search Engine Resources ; What's New ; The Search Engine Report.
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First Monday
Peer-Reviewed Journal on the Internet

• The Effects of September 11 on the Leading Search Engine
  Vol. 7, No. 10 (October 2001)
  By Richard W. Wiggins

Guardian Unlimited

"Search for the Invisible Web" (September 6, 2001)
By Chris Sherman

How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory
Sections include: Fields & File Types ; Search Logic ; Search Options ; Search Results ; Specialty Searches.
By Laura Cohen, University at Albany Libraries

The Meta Search Engines: A Web Searcher's Best Friends
By Daniel Bazac
LLRX.com Feature, September 16, 2002

NPR [National Public Radio] Morning Edition

• The Search Engine Wars (April 2004)
  "Companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are battling to be the main gateway to the Internet. These companies have gained unprecedented influence over what people see and learn, and have created an industry with brave new rules for business. In a five-part series, NPR's Rick Karr takes a look at the business of search engines."

Pew Internet & American Life Project

• Search Engines: A Pew Internet Project Data Memo (July 2002)

Seattle Times

• How "Search" is Redefining the Web - and our Lives
  Three part article by Kim Peterson, May 2005.

Multiple Engines / Metasearch
Academic Index
"The Academic Index is a true meta-search tool that includes results from mega-information databases that index only research-quality reference and information sources selected by professional librarians, educators, and educational and library consortia."

AllSearchEngines.com
Search engine index

• Foreign Search Engines

Beaucoup Search Engines
"has more than 1,200 listings of engines, directories and indices across the world."

The BigHub.com
Choose from over 3000 searchable databases as well as the major search engines.

fossic.com
The Web Search Alliance Directory
"A selective collection of over 3000 specialist search engines and topical guides."

IncyWincy
The Invisible Web Search Engine
"...gives access to over 100,000 search engines found on the pages in the directory and now lets you speak your search."

InvisibleWeb

Ixquick Metasearch
Limit by Web, News, MPS or Pictures

KillerInfo
"Meta Search with Clustering"
Features include: Search Results Guide ; Quick Peek Preview ; Search Channels ; International Searches ; Search Toolbar.

MetaCrawler
Search Lycos, Infoseek, WebCrawler, Excite, AltaVista, and Yahoo with a single query.

METAEUREKA
"Meta search engine for World Web, News, Newsgroups, MP3, Pictures, Encyclopedias, Books, Jokes"

qbSearch
"...qbSearch lets users display up to 20 result pages at once, all joined together into one long page. That way, you can scan results much faster. Just keep scrolling down the page."
A well designed and flexible search tool worth trying out.

Researchville
"The Place for Centralized Searching"
"With a minimalist design, it provides self-directed access to dozens of categorized search sites from one central location, and allows the user to organize Favorite Searches to be used again as needed."

Search Online
Free registration required for full features

SearchEngines.com
Listings Include: General Search Engines ; World Search Engines ; Topical Search Engines ; References Topics.

Turbo10 Search Engine

Vivísimo
Organized Search Results with Document Clustering
"Vivísimo does not crawl or index the web. It organizes the outputs of other search engines: URLs, titles, and short descriptions. It is more properly seen as a clustering engine...If you're looking for specific pages and can formulate an accurate query, then use a regular search engine. If you can't, or if you're looking for an overview or just browsing, use Vivísimo."

xrefer
"The web's first reference engine."
"xrefer contains encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations and reference works covering a wide range of subjects. And the best thing is that all this content is intelligently linked to allow you to follow a trail of relevant information throughout our extensive library.

Yakeo.com - The Search Engines
Search Engines and Directories for Europe ; America ; Asia

Individual Search Engines
Google

Yahoo

AllTheWeb.com
Can search for Web pages, pictures, videos, MP3 files, FTP files and filter by language, words, and domains.

AltaVista

• AltaVista - Translate with BabelFish
  "...enables you to translate short passages to and from English to a number of languages and to and from several specific pairs of languages (for example, German to French, French to German). You can also translate Web sites.

BBCi
"The UK's Number One Digital Destination"
"Our search service isn't here to make any money, so our results are the ones that best match your search words - not the ones want you to see."

Excite

Hotbot

iLOR Search
"Not only does iLOR offer four different ways of interacting with search results, but it also provides three different ways of working with those links once selected.  The result is a much more effective and efficient method of finding information...When you pause your cursor arrow over a search result using iLOR, an option menu appears that gives you exciting, useful and easier ways to explore the results that are relevant to your search and ignore the ones that are not."

Lycos
Results are not independent but provided by FAST/AllTheWeb.

Teoma Search
Delivers three types of search results : Web Pages ; Web Pages by Topic ; Experts' Links.

Vivísimo
Organized Search Results with Document Clustering
"Vivísimo does not crawl or index the web. It organizes the outputs of other search engines: URLs, titles, and short descriptions. It is more properly seen as a clustering engine...If you're looking for specific pages and can formulate an accurate query, then use a regular search engine. If you can't, or if you're looking for an overview or just browsing, use Vivísimo."

WebCrawler

WiseNut
 

Image Search Engines (see also our Art History section and Digital Library)
Finding Images on the Web
Tutorial by Ruth S. Thomas, Art/Art History Bibliographer, Boston University Libraries

The Amazing Picture Machine
North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium

Google - Image Search

New York Public Library

• The Picture Collection
  "The Picture Collection Online is an image resource site for those who seek knowledge and inspiration from visual materials. It is a collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923."

WebSEEk
"Content-based Image and Video Search and Catalog Tool for the Web"
Columbia University

a href="http://gallery.yahoo.com/">Yahoo! Picture Gallery

Specialized Search Engines
4MetaWAP
"...was developed to enable wireless device users to quickly and accurately locate wireless web sites."

[Academic] Academic Index
"The Academic Index is a true meta-search tool that includes results from mega-information databases that index only research-quality reference and information sources selected by professional librarians, educators, and educational and library consortia."

[Academic] All Academic
The Guide to Free Academic Resources On-Line
A collection of free scholarly journal articles, convention procedures, and working papers.

[Academic] RedLightGreen
"RedLightGreen helps you locate the most important books and other research materials in your area of interest, and find out whether what you need is available at your favorite library. Sign in, and you can format and send citations any way you want: MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian."

[Academic] CollegeBOT
.EDU Crawler
"...is the internet's only search engine devoted entirely to cataloging and searching education-related pages."
Part of collegenet.com

[Academic] SearchEdu.com
Searches over 20 million university and education pages.

• Foreign Search Engines

[Australia] Australian Libraries Gateway (ALG) - Pathways to Australian Information
Sections include: Australian Search Engines ; Australian Government ; Guides to Australian Information Online ; News & Information Services ; Post, Email & Telephone Directories.
- National Library of Australia

BoardReader
Message Board Search Engine
"Founded in May 2000 by engineers and students from the University of Michigan, Boardreader.com uses proprietary software that allows users to search the forums and message boards in a particular topic area, thus allowing users to share information in a truly global sense..."

CompletePlanet
Able to search databases (the "deep web") to receive results that otherwise don't can be impossible to obtain.
"Discover and search 103,000 searchable databases and specialty search engines."

Country Based Search Engines
"...currently a total of 1,533 search engines and 169 countries and regions."
By Phil Bradley

Electronic Journal Miner
Search engine for electronic journals

Engine
IEAust Search Engine
"...produced by the Institution of Engineers, Australia (IEAust), is the only bibliographic database within Australia that covers all branches of engineering. It is a complete index of IEAust publications since 1980.

[Europe] Abacho SearchEngine
Abacho Europe: Germany ; Austria ; Switzerland ; UK ; France ; Spain ; Italy ; Turkey.

[Europe] European Search Engines, Directories and Lists (English, Spanish, French, or Italian)

[Europe] EuroScanner
Euro Search Engine
Search by Country, Trade, Job Area, or Content.

FAST Multimedia Search
Search for images, video, and/or audio.

FinDArticles.com
"FindArticles.com is a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 350 magazines and journals...You will find articles on a range of topics, including business, health, society, entertainment, sports and more. Unlike other online collections, each of the hundreds of thousands of articles in FindArticles can be read in its entirety and printed at no cost."

FindLaw - LawCrawler
Legal information search engine with options to search five additional legal indexes

FindSounds.com
Search the Web for Sounds

Flipper.com
Deep Web Search

HONselect
"...new search Integrator for strictly medical and health queries. HONselect combines five information types - MeSH® terms, authoritative scientific articles, healthcare news, Web sites and multimedia - into one service to focus and accelerate your search.
Health on the Net Foundation, Switzerland

[Hungary] Weblink.hu
A Hungarian directory and search engine.

InvisibleWeb
"...is a directory of over 10,000 databases, archives, and search engines that contain information that traditional search engines have been unable to access."

[Law] Law Engine, The

magOmania
The Canadian Magazine Search Engine

MagPortal.com
"...helps you find individual magazine articles on the web."

METAEUREKA
"Meta search engine for World Web, News, Newsgroups, MP3, Pictures, Encyclopedias, Books, Jokes"
The first search engine I know where you can search for jokes!

NG Search
"...a new search resource for the UK academic internet community."

NLM Gateway Search
"The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE."
- National Library of Medicine

Pandia Newsfinder
"Search for daily news using the Pandia metasearch engine, and get headlines, summaries and links to articles from some of the best news sites on the Internet, including BBC, Yahoo, The Washington Post, NewsHub and Moreover."

[Religion] Religion Explorer - Religion Search Engine
"Religion Explorer is a powerful crawler based search engine that searches only in religion related sites. Our goal is to provide the freshest indices with the most powerful search features which will allow anyone to find any information about religion faster than with any other search engine."

Scirus
Search engine "For Scientific Information Only"
"Scirus covers scientific, technical and medical information sources ... Scirus reads non-text files (like pdf) ... Scirus searches deeper by indexing complete documents ..."

Search Adobe PDF Online
"Now there's a way to search through more than a million summaries of Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) files on the Web. Your search results will allow you to see the summaries before deciding to view the original Adobe PDF."

Searchebooks.com

search4science
"In addition to the search engine, the site offers a large number of services, including discussion groups, the latest science news and an email catalogue aimed at researchers."

Sourcebank
The Search Engine for Developers
"...provides the freshest and most comprehensive set of resources available to the software development community. Unlike conventional Web sites, Sourcebank offers tools that can be personalized and variously utilized according to needs of individual end-users."

SpeechBot
"...is a search engine for audio & video content that is hosted and played from other websites...currently indexes 7747 hours of content."

Ulysses Directory
Science-Related Search Engines & Information Directories
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, NCSR 'Demokritos', Athens, Hellas

Web-Agri
"Web-Agri is the premier dedicated search engine in the area of agriculture and animal husbandry."

www.invisible-web.net - The Invisible Web Directory
Searchable Databases and Specialized Search Engines

See Academic Info: Biological Sciences - Search Engines
See Academic Info: British Studies - Search Engines
See Academic Info: India Studies - Search Engines
See Academic Info: Russian Studies - Search Engines

Ask a Library and Ask an "Expert" - Digital Reference
Ask a librarian...
Library of Congress Help Desk
"The links listed below go to 'Ask a Librarian' forms for the Library's reading rooms and research centers. Currently, there are five reading rooms offering this service. More will be added in the near future."

AskERIC
"...a personalized Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, parents, and others throughout the United States and the World...The AskERIC Network Information Specialists, drawing on the vast resources and expertise of the ERIC System, will respond within 48 hours with ERIC database searches, ERIC Digests, and Internet resources."

IPL Reference: Ask a Question
"We cannot help you if you need an answer in < 3 days!"
An experimental effort by volunteer librarians and library school students.
Internet Public Library

LiveRef
A Registry of Real-Time Digital Reference Services
"...is a categorized listing of libraries that offer real-time Library reference or information services using chat software, live interactive communications utilities, call center management software, Web contact center software, bulletin board services, or related Internet technologies. Use of the listed services may be restricted or limited to affiliated students, faculty, staff, or members."
Compiled and maintained by Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Iowa State University Library

Scientific American: Ask the Experts

Google Answers
"An open forum where Researchers answer your questions for a fee."

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