Academic Index
A free metasearch engine and virtual reference desk accessing tens of thousands of academic reference and research sites recommended by teachers and librarians.
Acronyma
A search engine with an index of acronyms and abbreviations. Searching is offered in several languages as well as by word or acronym.
Altavista
The name means "A view from above." Altavista provides searching, including multilingual searching, image, audio, and video searches.
Ask.com
Ask.com favors a natural language query ("What is the population of Fort Wayne?"). It also provides specialized searches for photographs, products, and news stories.
Blogflux
A search engine for blogs that also includes category listings.
BrainBoost
BrainBoost is a question-answering search engine specifically designed to answer questions, asked in plain English. BrainBoost generates actual sentences extracted from Web pages.
Caribseek
A Caribbean portal with information about various islands.
Ditto.com
Provides a visual search engine presenting results as pictures, not text.
Dogpile
Provides a search engine that gathers the best results from several search engines.
Euroclips
A European-based search engine that is also multilingual (English, French, and Spanish).
Funnel
A search engine of South African websites.
Gigablast
A search engine offering many unique features including quick indexing of websites and "Giga Bits" which are related terms that appear at the top of every search result page.
Google
Google's simple design and ranked results make it a favorite of librarians everywhere. Google can help you locate Web sites that include all or some of your search terms or phrases, and show the context in which they appear. Google also has a handy cheat sheet.
GoshMe
GoshMe isn't a search engine- it's a search assistant. GoshMe checks various search engines for your query and produces the best results from those search engines.
Hotbot
Provides over 40 search tools to assist users with searches and get relevant search results.
IceRocket
Search engine featuring snapshots of Web sites submissions of searches by e-mail, and a search history.
Ixquick
Provides a Web search engine, along with specialized searches for MP3 files, news stories, and photographs.
Jux2
Jux2 combines the search results of Google, Yahoo, and Ask Jeeves. It highlights the overlap and differences between the results.
Kartoo
Provides a metasearch engine with visual display via a series of interactive maps.
Link NZ
A search engine indexing New Zealand-related websites.
Lycos
Provides a search and navigation engine. In addition to conventional searching methods, you may search by URL, wildcard, and language.
Mamma
Calling itself "the mother of all search engines," Mamma searches a variety of engines, deep-content Web sites, and directories, and displays results by relevance.
Metacrawler
Provides a metasearch of several search engines, and presents the best results.
Mooter
Mooter aims to help users find what they want by presenting results in clusters. Mooter users complex algorithms based on psychological modeling to process and understand the information users seek.
OneLook
A dictionary and translation metasearch engine.
Scirus
Provides a search engine for scientific information.
SearchEnginesDir
SearchEnginesDir is a search engine directory, categorized by country and subject.
Technorati
One of the largest search engines for blogs.
Vivisimo
Provides a search engine that uses document clustering technology to group related documents to your search and present them.
Yahoo
Provides a search engine, selected results in their own categories, selected results that have copies of the Web site stored, as well as PDF files that can be viewed as HTML.
