Library > Searching Info on the Web

Web Search Tools

a9.com	Web search and image search results enhanced by Google, Search Inside the Book® results from Amazon.com, reference results from GuruNet, movies results from IMDb, and more.
Ask Jeeves	Search the Web, Pictures, News, Local, Products.
Clusty	Search results organized into folders grouping similar items together.
CompletePlanet	"The Deep Web Directory": a comprehensive listing of dynamic searchable databases that cannot be crawled or indexed by surface Web search engines.
Dogpile	"All the best search engines piled into one."
Google	Provides easy access to more than 8 billion Web pages. Other Google Services, including Google Images, Google Maps, Google Print, and other specialized Google search engines, supplement the primary Google search engine.
Google Scholar	Search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections	A virtual library of Internet resources, built by librarians, relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level.
Scirus	Comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet.
Teoma	Uses "Subject-Specific Popularity" to present most relevant Web sites.
Wayback Machinev	(Internet Archive-archive.org) Visit archived versions of Web sites.
Yahoo!	The Web's oldest "directory," Web sites organized into categories, as well as crawler-based listings for results.

Virtual Libraries

The Internet Public Library

INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections

Librarians' Internet Index

WWW Virtual Library

Subject Directories

Academic Info	[http://www.academicinfo.net/] (Educational Subject Directory - Online Degree Programs - Test Preparation Resources)
AllOneSearch	[http://www.allonesearch.com/] (browse a categorised selection of the most popular searches)
Beaucoup!	[http://www.beaucoup.com/] ("The ultimate source of free information")
Dogpile	"All the best search engines piled into one."
BUBL Link	[http://www.bubl.ac.uk/link/] (selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas)
Hotsheet	[http://www.hotsheet.com/]
LookSmart	[http://search.looksmart.com/] (hand-picked Web sites organized into categories)
Open Directory (dmoz)	[http://dmoz.org/] (largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web)
Refdesk	[http://refdesk.com/] ("The single best source for facts")
SearchEngines.com	("Your complete search engines resource center")
Thunderstone (Web Site Catalog)	(an index of sites, not pages)

Image Search Engines

Cydral

Ditto ("See the Web")

Google Image Search

Ithaki (Image/Picture Meta Search)

Picsearch

Blog Search Engines

The Annotated Times (New York Times)

Blogdex

Blogdigger

Blogstreet

Fagan Finder (blogs and RSS search engines)

Technorati ("What's happening on the Web right now")

RSS Feeds

CompleteRSS (search and subscribe to thousands of RSS feeds)

Feedster ("search today's Internet for listings, news, and blogs")

Google Reader for RSS Feeds

Search 4 RSS ("The RSS Search Engine")

Sindic8 (RSS and Atom news feeds on a wide variety of topics)

2RSS.com (directory, software, and articles)

Specialized Search

BUBL Link	Internet resources covering all academic subject areas
PubSub Search	PubSub is an automated system that constantly matches your search terms against millions of blogs, online discussions, News releases and SEC fillings, and notify you when there is a matach
Rollyo Search	Rollyo allows you to create your owm little search engines, focused on topics you care about and sources you perfer.