Media Center Search Engines

Search the Internet

Basic Search Engines

AllTheWeb
Alta Vista
Ask ("Natural language" engine)
Bing (MSN)
Blackle (energy saver)
DuckDuckGo
Google
Quintura
Sortfix
SweetSearch (only approved sources)
Yahoo!

Google Search Tips

Meta Search Engines

Yippy
Dogpile
Highway61
Hotbot
Ixquick MetaSearch
Mamma
MetaCrawler (The oldest one)
Thumbshots Ranking (compare)

Specialized Search Engines

AnnaNova (News Search)
CiteSeer (IT and computer science)
CompletePlanet (A "deep Web" search)
Education iSeek (only credible sites used)
Entrez (search life sciences)
Google Scholar (Use search box below.)
Go 2 Web 2.0 (web 2.0 directory)
HealthLine (search medical sites)

Intute (Social Sciences)
Magalaw (search law sites)
MedNets (for medical students)
News Look Up (News Search)
MsFreckles (unique way to limit searches
OJOSE (Search online scientific journals)
OAIster (deep web search)
OmniMedicalSearch (top rated medical)
PubGene (Search biology and genetics)
US Legal Research (search court decisions)

Scirus (Science Search Engine)
Similicio.us (find similar sites)
SMART Search (find SMART board lessons)
Timeline Search in Google (with links)
WolframAlpha (computational search engine)
World Law (search law references

Google Scholar

OAIster (searches academic collections not covered by Google, etc.)
Scirus (search engine for science sites only)

Internet Directories
(search by topic)

About.com
ALA Great Websites For Kids
BUBL LINK Catalogue
DMOZ Open Directory Project
GoGuides
Google Directory
Infomine
Intute
JoeAnt
KidsClick (by librarians)
Librarian's Index to the Internet.
Yahoo
WWW Virtual Library

Search Engine News
(Keep up to date on the latest search engine news.)

Search Engine Showdown and Search Engine Watch (New developments regarding browsers.)
All Metasearch (News about Metasearch engines)

Missing Pieces Tool (compare searches)