Anaheim High School Library Search Engines

Search Engines

Choose the Best Search Engine -
Before you begin your search take a moment and pick the search engine that will work best for what you need to find.

Web Site Evaluation Interactive Tool - Work your way through this site to learn how to choose the best Web sites for your research. Fun and Free!

Search Engine Showdown -
Greg Notess keeps up with the latest with respect to which search engines are capable of helping us the most.

Finding Data On The Internet
How to find basic references and information to back up your research. Designed for reporters, but useful to many others seeking information on a wide range of subjects.

Search Engines

Image Searches

In alphabetical order

These may be blocked at school

All the Web
A new, FAST, and powerful search engine. Includes special areas and features for music, multimedia and FTP sites.

AltaVista
Alta Vista is one of the most powerful Internet searchers available. Includes many special options and features.

Ask
Formerly Ask Jeeves, Ask searches the Web using up-to-date technology to make searches fast and accurate.

Buscar en Espanol
Un mecanismo de busqueda en el Internet y World Wide Web, en Espanol.

CompletePlanet
Offers access to the "invisible Web", places where most search engines don't travel. If you are interested in a particular subject, this site may have a database or special search engine for you.

Excite Web Searcher
Generally a fast and easy to use Web searcher.

Google
An efficient search engine that is also quite fast! Advertising is minimal or absent. A favorite of many librarians.

HotBot Search Engine and Web Directory
Uses fast, parallel search technology. Searches the full text of its entire Internet collection. Be sure to review the "Help" file for better use.

Go.Com
One of the official search engines of Netscape. Their Helpful Tips section gives you more information on formulating queries.

AllTheWeb
Images, video and audio files are available here.

AltaVista Image Finder
This searcher offers access to a large collection of photos and graphics.

American Memory Photos/Images and
American Memory Films/Motion Pictures
Displays various collections that may be downloaded and used in presentations.

Ditto.Com
A powerful search engine for locating images and graphics.

Google Image Searcher
Special area of Google that just searches for images and graphics.

Image Search
From this page you can search several different major Web image sources.

Lycos Image Gallery
Search this image, music, movie trailer and sound collection by keyword.

Lycos Multimedia
Images, video and audio files are available here. Family friendly filters are built-in!

Picsearch
A search engine especially designed to find pictures and images.

IxQuick
Fast! Comprehensive results (searches 12 engines simultaneously).

LookSmart Search
Search the Web by keyword or subject.

Lycos
Has a reputation for its large, extensive coverage of the Web.

Mamma
The "Mother of all search engines." One option allows you to search through newspapers.

Search.com
A well-organized collection of search engines, with general and specialized searching capabilities. Fun to use!

SearchEdu.Com
This search engine specializes in searching education websites. It also has links to its other specialized searchers focused on books, government and military sites.

WebCrawler
One of the earliest Internet "search engines", WebCrawler is fast, unless busy....

Yahoo!
A directory of places on the World Wide Web, organized according to subject, and searchable by key word.