The search engines below are organized by the phase of your research project:

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Find Your Topic

Use these sites to get quick information / overviews of your topic, to find alternative or related topics, or to refine and narrow your topic.

Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia.com: Searches millions of online encyclopedia and magazine articles.
• Wikipedia

Explore Topics

• Clusty
• Grokker
• Surfwax
• Ask
• Ask for Kids
  

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Find General Sites

Once you know your topic, use these search engines to find good, general information sites on your topic. If NOT working on a wiki, bookmark them, or create your own wiki to record the URL's.

Keyword

• Google
• Yahoo

Category

• NetTrekker: At home you can make your own account, or log in with:

• ID: hillcrestabc
• Password: hillcrest
• BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Center
  
• Multnomah Library Homework Center
• ThinkQuest

Mixed

• Ask
• Ask for Kids
• Clusty

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Find Specifics

Use these search engines to find specific types of information that you weren't able to find in the previous search engines.

If You're Looking for ...

• Authoritative / Scholarly
• Primary Sources
• Specific Disciplines
• By Date
• Facts
• Opinions and Perspectives
• Media types

Go here (and scroll down a little): Choose the Best Search for your Information Need: a list of search engines organized by the kind of information you are looking for (many of the sites listed here come from this source).