Search tools
AlltheWeb
AltaVista
Ask Jeeves
A most
civilised interface.
Excite
Gigablast.com
Clusters its results. Works particularly well
when searching for people.
Google Scholar
HotBot
humansearch.com
The
InvisibleWeb.com
ITsearchPORTAL
'Search the top IT websites in one place
with ITsearchPORTAL.'
Librarians' Index to the Internet
Sponsored by the Library of California.
Lycos
The Net 1
Open Directory Project
'The
Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory
of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of
volunteer editors.'
WebCrawler
xrefer
'Encyclopedias,
dictionaries, thesauri & books of quotations from the world's leading
publishers. All cross-referenced, all reliable, all in one place.'
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Local search engines
Altavista, Google and Yahoo all have local versions for many
countries.
Cyberbritain.com
Euroseek
German search engines
Scoot
'Business and
service directory, offering a fast and easy way to find information on over two
million goods and services. If you wish to find local services (cinemas,
plumbers, banks etc.) within the UK, it can save a lot of time.'
searchUK
UK Plus
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Useful collections of search engines
Beaucoup
Listings of
engines, directories and indices.
BUBL Information
Service
(Bulletin Board for Libraries) 'Free user-friendly access to
selected Internet resources covering all subject areas with a special focus on
library and information science'
International Search Engines and Foreign Search
Engines
From AllSearchEngines.com
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Meta search engines
Debriefing meta search
engine
Searches several major search engines.
Dogpile
A multi-engine
search tool.
Ixquick Metasearch
MetaCrawler
Powerful meta search engine.
Search.com
From
CNET.
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How to use the various search tools
Asian
Studies Search Engines
Edited by Dr T. Matthew Ciolek.
Search Engine Reviews
From Search Engine Watch.
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