Search Engines & Directories
Search
Engines & Directories
Ask used to be Ask Jeeves and is now just "Ask" Search using search terms or questions
Bing search engine from Microsoft and similar to Google
Clusty used to be Vivisimo and is a metasearch engine with results "clustered" into categories
Colossus international directory of search engines for 310 countries and territories
Dogpile metasearch engine - one of the first
Eduhound directory of topics of interest specifically to educators
Exalead "For Web searches, choose among three different result displays: text only, thumbnail preview images with short descriptions, or thumbnails with extended descriptions." You also have the ability to refine your search and set search preferences.
IncyWincy - the Invisible Search Engine
Ixquick calls itself "the world's most private search engine" because it does not record your IP address or make a record of your searches
Kartoo a metasearch engine where you choose the way you want to see your results- map, list, chart, cloud, graph, etc. You can also turn off sponsored results.
MagPortal Find individual articles from many freely accessible magazines by browsing the categories or using the search engine.
Mamma "the mother of all search engines" is a metasearch engine whose results also give you other search suggestions
Metacrawler a metasearch engine that searches using Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask
Pandia here you can choose to use Pandia Web Search, Pandia Metasearch Engine, Pandia Plus Directory, Pandia Newsfinder, Pandia Radio Search, or Pandia MP3 Search
Quintura - a visual search engine with results shown in a "cloud"
Short and Easy Search Engine Tutorial teaches the difference between search engines, metasearch engines and directories and how each works, advanced searching, Boolean searching, truncating, error codes, etc.
Virtual Learning Resource Center all resources- broken into twelve major categories - are reviewed and approved by certified librarians.
Yahoo/Altavista used to be AltaVista which competed with Yahoo and Google
Yahoo Search Directory the mother of all search directories
Yahoo Search Engine - different from the directory above!
Created by Linda DeVore
Last Updated Saturday, December 05, 2009