Yahoo

In years past Yahoo was distinguished by its excellent subject directory of hand selected resources. The directory remains, but now Yahoo is a primary contender among search engines with its own crawled database. Offers many helpful search shortcuts.  [Click Here]

 

Teoma

A medium-sized search engine that produces excellent retrieval. Teoma uses "subject-specific popularity" to rank a site based on the number of same-subject pages that reference it, not just general popularity. The Resources section points to link collections related to the search that have been compiled by "experts and enthusiasts."  [Click Here]

 

MSN Search

Microsoft launched its new search engine late in 2004. This is one to watch. Be sure to check out the "search builder" feature which offers an interesting approach to search refinement options.  [Click Here]

 

Gigablast

Small but interesting database. Offers "Gigabits" which are related keywords and phrases suggested as ways to refine a search. Every result has a direct link into the Way Back Machine�labeled as "older copies."  [Click Here]

Subject Directories

Librarians' Index to the Internet

"A searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 8500 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries" (from the "About" page). Easy to use, very browsable. Annotations are a plus.  [Click Here]

 

Infomine

"A virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level."  [Click Here]

 

RDN (Resource Discovery Network)

"Gathers resources which are carefully selected, indexed and described by specialists in partner institutions... comprised of over seventy educational and research organizations, including the Natural History Museum and the British Library."  [Click Here]

 

About.com

Excellent source for web guides on popular topics.  [Click Here]

Metacrawlers: Search multiple search engines from the same web site

Vivisimo

Performs document clustering (based on titles, URLs, and short descriptions) so that users may browse the results by hierarchical categories. Very useful and effective approach.  [Click Here]

 

Clusty

A more consumer oriented version of Vivisimo. Offers Vivisimo's document clustering feature which groups related items into separate folders for browsing. In addition to general web meta searches, Clusty facilitates "shopping, blogs, gossip, images, Wikipedia and people searches."  [Click Here]

 

SurfWax

Offers a SiteSnaps feature that provides quick summaries that may be viewed before deciding to summon the page.  [Click Here]

 

DogPile

Clean, easy to use interface. Clustering of results is a helpful feature. Results presented by relevance with the option of viewing by search engine.  [Click Here]

 

Other Choices:

Ixquick    [Click Here]

Mamma    [Click Here]

Hotbot    [Click Here]

News & Blog Search Engines

Topix.net

Major news stories from over 7,000 sources.  [Click Here]

 

Daypop

A current events search engine that covers newspapers, online magazines, and weblogs.  [Click Here]

 

RocketNews

Indexes Atom and RSS feeds along with the usual full-text resources. Can limit searches to today, yesterday, and up to five days ago.  [Click Here]

 

Feedster

A search engine for RSS feeds.  [Click Here]

 

Technorati

A search engine that tracks over three million weblogs.  [Click Here]

 

Other Choices:

Google News  [Click Here]            

Yahoo News  [Click Here]

Specialized Search Engines

Scirus

An excellent science-specific search engine that covers web sites and a variety of journal sources.  [Click Here]

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