See also Links for Kids and Links for Readers
 

Search Engines

About (www.about.com): Good site for general queries. Excellent web site directory.

Alta Vista (www.altavista.com): A full-text index of millions of web pages. It is very fast, and can be tailored for precise searching.

Ask.com (www.ask.com)       

Google (www.google.com): Highly recommended site for searching broad and specific queries. User friendly interface with searching techniques capabilities.

HotBot (www.hotbot.com): Can be be used for complex and carefully targeted Web searches. Allows advanced and personalized searching techniques.

Yahoo (www.yahoo.com): Yahoo! has an excellent web site directory as well as search capabilities.

Meta Search Engines

Search engines that relay queries through numerous other search engines:

Dogpile (www.dogpile.com): Full bore Boolean searching of multiple engines (if allowed in the specific database). It can look into ftp sites, Usenet,mailing lists, and web pages simultaneously.

Mamma (www.mamma.com): This one is fast. It can look into up to eight engines at the same time. Use Power Search to customize searches.

MetaCrawler (www.metacrawler.com): Convenient simultaneous searching of the more popular engines.

Search.com (www.search.com): Good indexing on some of the smaller and more specialized engines.

See a list of recommended links to sites arranged by subject.