Internet Search Engines LRC@TCC

Search engines that sort your results:

Ask.com   Clusty

Single search engines: 

AltaVista Blinkx (video clips)  Excite InfoSeek   Lycos   Yahoo

Google & Google Scholar note: Set Google Scholar Preferences to VCCS

Multiplesearch engines:

All the Web    Dogpile   ixquick   KartOO   MetaCrawler  WebCrawler  

Subject sites selected for their research quality:

Best Information on the Net an alphabetical list of topics, chosen by librarians!

Environment Directory is the largest exclusively environmental organization directory on the Web and includes sites from over 100 countries

Infomine Scholarly Internet resource collections.

Librarians' Index to the Internet by the University of California at Berkeley.

Scout Report Archives critical annotations of carefully selected Internet sites

WorldCat (use advanced search to limit to Internet source and NOT netlibrary)

Need help?

Search Engine Math shows how to use +,-,"" to quickly improve your searches.

Do you want a library or the Internet?

Do you want a search engine or a database?

Are you evaluating your sources?

Want to learn more about search engines?

Our subject guide, Searching the Internet, provides information for beginners on how to search, what to search, and how to evaluate what you find.

Searchenginewatch.com with a listing of specialty search engines is a one stop shop for search engine reviews, news, changes, statistics, etc.

SearchEngineShowdown the users' guide to Web searching, compares and evaluates Internet search engines from the searcher's perspective.

What is the Invisible Web? Search what you probably haven't searche before. Access databases not found by other search engines, you can read more about the invisible web.