Search Tools

CLASSIFIED WEB GUIDES
Yahoo! Directory - The Yahoo! Directory is a human-created and maintained library of web sites organized into categories and subcategories. Search Options

DMOZ Open Directory Project - The subject directory used by Netscape, Alta Vista, Hotbot, Lycos, and others.advanced
Librarians' Index to the Internet - Advanced Search

Keywords Subjects Titles Descriptions Links
About.com - Over 650 highly targeted environments, each overseen by a professional guide.
SEARCH ENGINES
Google - Automatically uses "AND" (no + needed); - removes keyword; Double quotes for phrase. Google ranks searches based on number of citations by other web sites.
Yahoo! Web Search - Yahoo! Search returns a list of web pages containing the words you entered. These results are a combination of relevant web pages and web sites provided by Yahoo! Search and the Yahoo! Directory Search Options

Teoma - Resources : These web pages contain collections of links about general subjects related to your search. They are compiled by topic experts and enthusiasts from around the world.
Find this phrase
MSN Search - Direct Answers from MSN Encarta provides easy access to information about geographical locations, historical figures, animals, and more.
PARALLEL SEARCHES
MetaCrawler - Parallel searches of several search engines. Results are collated. Power Search

any all as a phrase
Ixquick Metasearch - Ixquick knows which search engines can handle phrases, boolean logic, wildcards and more.
SPECIALIZED (NON-HTML) DATABASES
ProFusion
CompletePlanet
SearchBug
Search Adobe PDF Online
IncyWincy Invisible Web Search
SEARCHING GUIDES, NEWS, EVALUATIONS
Foreign Search Engines
Search Engine Watch
Search Engine Showdown
Spider's Apprentice : How to Use Web Search Engines
Internet Search Tool Details


HTML code on this page adapted from InFoPeople's Recommended Search Tools. Thanks to Carole Leita at InFoPeople Project for permission to use.


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Last updated July 30, 2002