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Scholarly Directories (for
Academic Subjects)
Invisible Web Tools (for
sites missed by most search engines)
| Yahoo! - Subject directory, click here here for search engine or portal site. Help | Librarian's Internet Index- subject directory organized by librarians. Help. |
| About.com - "features 24 content channels" ... "from more than 500 topical advisers or "Guides"." |
| AltaVista - Owned by Yahoo! Best used for Advanced search options and Images, MP3/Audio, Video. Can translate foreign language documents. Search for News. Advanced Search. Help | Exalead - Small search engine with a Refine feature and thumbnail images of web pages. Supports more search features than other search engines, including soundslike: and spellslike: features. |
| AlltheWeb - Owned by Yahoo! Best used to search for News, Pictures, Videos, Audio. Advanced Search. Help. | Google - Use quotes for phrases, + to require stop words, -to exclude words, ~ for synonyms. Search for Images, (news) Groups, News. Directory by Open Directory. Google Scholar for academic searches. Help. |
| AOL Anywhere - AOL's search engine enhanced by Google, category sites in AOL A-Z. Help. | Live Search - (MSN Windows Live). Advanced search only after Basic Search. Provides Academic Search (beta). Help. |
| Ask - Formerly AskJeeves. Accepts questions, phrases or single word searches. Provides Narrow and Expand search options Help. | Yahoo! - Search engine & main site. Use quotes for phrases, all Boolean Operators (in CAPS).Automatic AND. Help. |
| Clusty - clusters results into hierarchical folders. Results from Ask, Open Directory, Gigablast and others. Help. | Ixquick- Searches Yahoo!, Ask, MSN, and others. Uses whatever search operators engine searched uses. Eliminates duplicates. Help. |
| DogPile - Searches Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Ask, and others. Help. | Search22 - not a meta search engine, but a single interface for searching several search engines, meta search engines and other search sites. Help. |
The Search Tools Chart provides a quick overview, in chart form, of the major search tools.
updated 12/07