Links for Research—Search Engines
Use the tools on this page when you want to find internet sites related to a specific topic, when you know enough about the topic to have good descriptive search terms to effectively target your search.
- For Web directories, see the Web Directories page.
- For descriptions and evaluations of the features of various directories and engines, see the Evaluations section below.
Note: the links below take you further down on this page.
Search engines – single databases
Search engines – multiple databasesEvaluations of Web directories and search engines
Search engines – single databases
- AllTheWeb – http://www.alltheweb.com/
- Search help – http://www.alltheweb.com/help/faqs/web_search
- Advanced search help – http://www.alltheweb.com/help/faqs/advanced
- Alta Vista – http://www.altavista.com/
- Search help – http://www.altavista.com/sites/help/search/default
- Advanced search help – http://www.altavista.com/sites/help/search/help_adv
- Ask.com (formerley Ask Jeeves) – http://www.ask.com/
- Search help – http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/help_central.shtml
- Google – http://www.google.com/
- Search help – http://www.google.com/help/index.html
- Advanced search help – http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html
- MSN – http://search.msn.com
- Yahoo! – http://www.yahoo.com/
- Search help – http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/
Search engines – multiple databases
- Dogpile – http://www.dogpile.com/
- Dogpile will fetch results from several major search engines.
- Ixquick – http://www.ixquick.com/
- “Highlighted result” feature will show you where to find your search terms in each document.
- Meta-Crawler – http://www.metacrawler.com/
- MetaCrawler sends your queries to several web search engines, including About, Ask Jeeves, FindWhat, LookSmart, and Overture.
- Surfwax – http://www.surfwax.com/
- If you open a free account, you can choose which of hundreds of search engines to query and save your search results to use later.
- Vivisimo – http://vivisimo.com/
- Queries multiple search engines and uses document clustering technology to categorize results.
Evaluations of Web directories and search engines
- NoodleQuest – http://www.noodletools.com/noodlequest/
- Recommends search engines based on your research goals and familiarity with the Internet.
- Search Engine Watch – http://www.searchenginewatch.com/reports/index.html
- Search engine reviews, ratings, and tests.
- Web Searching
- part of the Internet Public Library
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- Describes the features of Alta Vista, Ask Jeeves, Google, Hotbot, Ixquick, and Yahoo!
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A+ Research & Writing for high school and college students was created by Kathryn L. Schwartz