Search+Engines

START HERE : [|Choosing the right search engine] [|SEARCH ENGINE FEATURES] - common features that work with any search engine [|Four NETS for Better Searching] - tips for finding exactly what you're looking for [|Specialized Search Engine Directories] - a list of search engines based on specific need


 * *[|ACADEMIC & SCHOLARLY SEARCH ENGINES AND SOURCES]

HELPFUL AND AUTHORITATIVE SEARCH ENGINES:


 * Academic Index **
 * A scholarly academic search engine accessing websites selected by librarians, teachers, and library and education consortia. **


 * [|InfoTrek.Info] **
 * A Google alternative safe search-engine for high school students. Accesses only trusted websited recommended by**
 * librarians, teachers and library and educational consortia.**


 * [|Blekko]**
 * A better way to search the web by using slashtags to narrow down your search. Slashtags search only the sites you want and cut out the spam sites.**


 * [|DuckDuckGo]**
 * General purpose search engine that gives you more instant answers, less spam and clutter, and lots of "goodies."**


 * [|Wolfram Alpha]**
 * Computational knowledge search engine that allows you to answer questions, do math, instantly get facts, create plots, calculators, unit conversions, scientific data and statistics.**


 * [|Sweet Search: A Search Engine for Students]**
 * Searches only the 35,000 Web sites that our staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved.**


 * [|Virtual Learning Resources Center]**
 * Index to thousands of the best academic information websites, selected by teachers and library professionals worldwide, in order to provide to students and teachers current, valid information for school and university academic projects.**


 * [|Infotopia]**
 * An academic search engine accessing only trusted websites previously selected by librarians, teachers, and library and educational consortia.**


 * [|Answers.com] **
 * Delivers** useful **answers in a snap. Look up any word or phrase for the best definition or explanation on the Web.**


 * [|Ask.com]**
 * Founded as Ask Jeeves in 1996 and renamed Ask.com in February 2005, Ask.com is recognized for innovation in search technology and search interface design.**


 * [|Clusty]**
 * Rather than focusing just on search engine result ranking, it groups results into topics, or "clustering," made for better search and discovery.**


 * [|Yahoo! Kids]**
 * Search engine designed specifically for kids .**


 * [|IPL2]**
 * IPL2 merges the collections of resources from the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII) websites, providing access to "Information you can trust."**


 * [|Dogpile]**
 * Uses metasearching by putting the power of all the leading search engines together in one search box to deliver the best combined results.**


 * [|KidsClick] **
 * Kid-friendly sites with educational content selected by librarians.**

__** Some additional specialty search engines: **__

'Image' Search Engines

[|Vintage Ad Browser]

[|Icon Finder]

[|Cover Browser]

[|Panoramio]

[|Tin Eye]

[|Wikimedia Commons]

'News' Search Engines

[|Silobreaker]

[|Newsmap]

[|Ten by Ten]

'Similar Site' Search Engines

[|Similar Pages]

[|TasteKid]

[|Similar Site Check]

'Specialty' Search Engines

[|Millon Short]

- search engine that removes the top one million most popular websites from its index (or removes 100, 1000, 10,000, etc.). See what you discover.

[|Wayback Machine]

- 435 billion web pages saved over time

[|WolframAlfa]

- computational knowledge engine. Long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone.

[|Find How]

- search engine aimed to help you learn how to do virtually everything

[|Banana Slug]

- your search plus a random word to get very interesting results

'New' Search Engines

[|Bin Pad]

- categorizes your search results

[|Leap It]

- responds to your search with visual cards

'Social Media' Search Engines

[|Back Tweets]

[|Social Mention]

[|Addict-o-matic]

[|Mamuna]

[|Social Searcher]

[|Hashtags]

[|We Follow]


 * GOOGLE :**

Search **diverse sources from one convenient place** Find **articles, theses, books, abstracts or court opinions** Locate **the complete document through your library or on the web** Learn** about key scholarly literature in any area of research [|Google Earth] Explore the world from your computer. [|Google Images] Search for images on the Web. [|Google Web Search Features] Special features Google provides to help you find exactly what you're looking for. [|Google Translator] Translate text and/or websites into 20+ different languages. [|Google's DeeperWeb] A new search engine extension with innovative search boosting technologies. Employing Tag-Cloud techniques to help users navigate through search results more efficiently and Topic-Mapping Technologies for fast results identification. Get the Most Out of Google The infographic offers a helpful primer for how to best structure searches using advanced operators to more quickly and accurately drill down to the information you want.
 * [|Google] **
 * Search the World Wide Web**
 * [|Google Scholar] search scholarly papers:**