Google (Advanced) Use limiters such as date, Boolean operators, file formats, etc. to narrow your search to find the best information.
Google Scholar - This Google search makes it easy to search for papers, abstracts, citations and other scholarly literature.
Google Books - Search the latest index of the world's books. Find millions of great books you can preview or read for free. Some will have full text, but some will only have excerpts available.
MetaSearch Engines – searches across several search engines at once.
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– Searches other search engines, such as Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Ask, to bring you the best of the web in one handy results list.
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- This meta search engine searches Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Ask, About, MIVA and others.
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-Searches across multiple search engines and organizes results into categories or clusters. This services offers privacy protected web searching.
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- Returns results from everyone's favorite search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Ask and About.)
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- Globally popular meta-search engine, Mamma.com brings forth refined search results from the web’s top search engines; assisting users to efficiently find the information they seek online.
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- All your favorite search engines and reference websites are aggregated on ONE page.
Other Search engines
iSEEK -Designed specifically for students and educators, iSEEK is a non-commercial search engine delivering results from universities, government sites and other noncommercial providers.
Deeper Web-Search tool that allows users to navigate using tag clouds and Zoomies. Tag clouds are like subject headings - clouds in larger type list more results. Zoomies sort results by topic and type of information provided.
Wolfram Alpha -A computational knowledge engine. Wolfram Alpha uses built-in knowledge selected by human experts to compute a specific answer to every query.
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- A Web 3.0 Search Engine designed to provide customized meaningful search results. Features of Kngine include interactive statistics and historical questions, concept lists, comparisons -specializes in Movie and Music Searches.
Browsys -This search engine allows users organize web pages in virtual folders that can be easily created, accessed, edited and shared.
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All your favorite search engines and reference websites are aggregated on ONE page. Just type your desired search term and press the button(s) you want. Search engines, references materials, social networking sites, white pages and shopping sites.
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This site gives you access to trusted, reliable How-To content on the Internet.
Directories – web resources arranged by topics and categories, selected by editors.
Social Networking Searches – Use these search engines to find blogs, wikis, twitter posts and more. Surchur -For the latest hot topics on social networking sites blogs, twitter, images, video., and others. Wiki.com -Search wiki pages. SearchTwitter Listorious Twitter people search. Technorati-Blog search Bloglines- Blog search.
Pixsy – The Pixsy Index is the Internet's largest repository of media resources. Pixsy is a great place to find both videos and photos. Picsearch - This image search engine puts 3,000,000,000 pictures at your fingertips. Blinkx - Users can search more than 32 million hours of video on Blinkx. Search by keyword or category. Kngine - A Web 3.0 Search Engine designed to provide customized meaningful search result. Features of Kngine include interactive statistics and historical questions, concept lists, comparisons -specializes in Movie and Music Searches. Songza - This music search engine doubles as an Internet jukebox. You can search for and listen to any song or band. Radio-Locator - The largest radio station search engine, use it to locate over 10,000 radio station websites and nearly 3,000 audio streams. .
Science Search Engines
OJOSE (Online Journal Search Engine) -A free powerful scientific search engine enabling you to make search-queries in different databases by using only 1 search field. With OJOSE you can find, download or buy scientific publications (journals, articles, research reports, books, etc.) in up to 60 different databases.
SCIRUS - The most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. With over 410 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.
Wolfram Alpha -A free online computational knowledge engine that generates answers to questions in real time by doing computations on its own vast internal knowledge base
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Google (Advanced) Use limiters such as date, Boolean operators, file formats, etc. to narrow your search to find the best information.
Google Scholar - This Google search makes it easy to search for papers, abstracts, citations and other scholarly literature.
Google Books - Search the latest index of the world's books. Find millions of great books you can preview or read for free. Some will have full text, but some will only have excerpts available.
Google Squared-Allows users to compare results.
Google Government Search
iSEEK -Designed specifically for students and educators, iSEEK is a non-commercial search engine delivering results from universities, government sites and other noncommercial providers.
Deeper Web-Search tool that allows users to navigate using tag clouds and Zoomies. Tag clouds are like subject headings - clouds in larger type list more results. Zoomies sort results by topic and type of information provided.
Wolfram Alpha -A computational knowledge engine. Wolfram Alpha uses built-in knowledge selected by human experts to compute a specific answer to every query.
Browsys -This search engine allows users organize web pages in virtual folders that can be easily created, accessed, edited and shared.
OpenDirectory
Best of The Web (BOTW)
Google Directory
Yahoo! Directory
Surchur -For the latest hot topics on social networking sites blogs, twitter, images, video., and others.
Wiki.com -Search wiki pages.
SearchTwitter
Listorious Twitter people search.
Technorati-Blog search
Bloglines- Blog search.
Internet Public Library Blogs
Twazzup (sorts results and lists hot topics!)
Pixsy – The Pixsy Index is the Internet's largest repository of media resources. Pixsy is a great place to find both videos and photos.
Picsearch - This image search engine puts 3,000,000,000 pictures at your fingertips.
Blinkx - Users can search more than 32 million hours of video on Blinkx. Search by keyword or category.
Kngine - A Web 3.0 Search Engine designed to provide customized meaningful search result. Features of Kngine include interactive statistics and historical questions, concept lists, comparisons -specializes in Movie and Music Searches.
Songza - This music search engine doubles as an Internet jukebox. You can search for and listen to any song or band.
Radio-Locator - The largest radio station search engine, use it to locate over 10,000 radio station websites and nearly 3,000 audio streams. .
OJOSE (Online Journal Search Engine) -A free powerful scientific search engine enabling you to make search-queries in different databases by using only 1 search field. With OJOSE you can find, download or buy scientific publications (journals, articles, research reports, books, etc.) in up to 60 different databases.
SCIRUS - The most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. With over 410 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.
Wolfram Alpha -A free online computational knowledge engine that generates answers to questions in real time by doing computations on its own vast internal knowledge base