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Search
Engines
Choose
the Best Search Engine
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Before you begin your search take a moment and pick the search engine
that will work best for what you need to find.
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.
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- 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.
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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.
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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.
MetaCrawler
Searches a number of search engines, organizes the
results, and displays those that it feels are the most
useful.
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.
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