Large Generalized Search Engines
Start your searching at these sites.

Google
Excellent beginning site with lots of advanced features. Good news coverage with news alerts. Automaticaly checks spelling and offers suggestions.

AltaVista
Has very good image, MP3/audio and video searching. Has a very deep news archive. Offers ideas for related searches.

Yahoo
Has a narrowing feature called Also Try. Has news, weather and stock alerts. Allows you to customize the look of your Yahoo screen.

LookSmart

HotBot

Ask.com


Metasearch Engines
Metasearch Engines search other search engines. They provide results from several different search engines.

Dogpile

MetaCrawler

ZapMeta
Provides instant snapshots of results pages plus offers a link to previous versions of the page through the Wayback Machine.

Refinements and Clusters
The newest buzz in searching is the ability of a website to offer related subjects and/or more specific options for your search terms. Sometimes called clusters or refinements they zero in and help you focus your search terms. Except for Teoma these are also metasearch engines.

Clusty
Can search blogs.

EZ2Find
Searches some invisible web sites.

SurfWax
Try their focus option to see other possible words for your search terms.

Vivisimo
Vivisimo is the creator of Clusty.

Academic, Government and Librarian Reviewed Sites

USAGov
The US Government's official web portal.

Infomine
Scholarly Internet resource collections.

Librarian's Index to the Internet
A searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 14,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries.

Children's Search Engines

KidsClick

Yahoo Kids

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