Search Engines, Directories, etc.

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7MetaSearch.com
A search engine that places the most popular sites at the top of the result list

411 Locate
A search engine that allows a white and yellow pages search, a social networking search, a map and driving directions search, etc.

Academic Info
A web directory and an online education resource center

Accomodation Search Engine
A search engine to find international hotels, motels, and other accommodations

Aliweb-The Web’s Oldest Search Engine
A search engine with links to a variety of websites on one page

AllPages.com
A directory of yellow pages for U.S. States, Canadian provinces, and businesses

AllRefer Health
A search engine and directory portal about health

AlltheWeb.com
A search engine which supports searching in 36 different languages

Alta Vista
A search engine for the global community

AnyWho
A directory regarding people, places, and businesses

AOL.com
A search engine that offers a variety of services and special features

Ask.com
A search engine that allows users to ask questions

Ask Kids
A search engine for those from 6 to 12 years of age

Awesome Library
A search engine, directory, and index that has K-12 educational resources

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Beaucoup!
A search engine metasite with some research and reference sites

Bigfoot
A search engine that finds people, businesses, email addresses, etc.

BUBL (sources for academic subjects)
A virtual library that contains an online catalogue or directory of information resources

ChaCha
A search engine where questions can be asked

Clusty
A metasearch engine that groups similar results together in clusters

CompletePlanet
A directory to thousands of databases and search engines

Direct Search
A search engine that includes information from the Invisible Web (scroll to the bottom of this site to see the Additions to Direct Search)

DMOZ-Open Directory Project
The largest human-edited directory of the Web

Dogpile
A metasearch engine that searches multiple search engines as well as sponsored links and filters duplicates

EINet Galaxy
A directory where librarians have selected quality content for a variety of categories including Reference sources

Encyclopedia.com
A search engine for students, researchers, or professionals that has free articles from encyclopedias and dictionaries

Excite
An internet portal that offers a variety of services including instant messaging, stock quotes, and a customizable user homepage

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Gigablast
A search engine that groups results into a variety of categories

Gimpsy
A directory of interactive sites

Google
A search engine with many special search features

Google Scholar
A search engine for scholarly literature

Healthopedia.com
A search engine and directory for health and medical content

Hot Sheet
A search engine metasite with a variety of categories including reference and research

illumiRate
An international internet directory staffed by worldwide volunteer editors

INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
A web directory with scholarly intent

Internet Public Library
A search engine that promotes a learning and teaching environment

Intute -The Best Web Resources for Education and Research
A web directory that has some of the best web resources for education and research

Ithaki
A metasearch engine that searches approximately 500 web search engines, internet directories, and guides

Ixquick
A metasearch engine that searches local and international search engines in 18 languages

JoeAnt.com
A directory of sites for a variety of subjects chosen by volunteer editors who add the best sites to chosen topics

Joongel
A metasearch engine that provides the ten most viewed websites for a specific subject or subcategory

Jux2
A metasearch engine that compares Google, Yahoo, and MSN searches

Kartoo
A visual metasearch engine

Kedrix
A metasearch engine that searches Google, Yahoo, Live, and Ask

Lycos
A search engine with a variety of tools for social networking, blogging, web publishing, etc.

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Mamma
A metasearch engine that ranks results from a dozen major search engines and directories and has other nice searching extras such as job listings, videos, shopping information, etc.

MetaCrawler
A metasearch engine that combines the top ranking search results from search engines based on the individual query

Monster Crawler
A metasearch engine that takes the results from leading search engines, eliminates the duplicates, and ranks the results according to the search terms used

Netscape Search
A search engine with access to relevant pictures, maps, news, stock quotes, videos, and other types of information

OAIster
A specialized search engine that has a union catalog of digital resources including books, articles, etc.

PINAKES (links to major subject gateways)
A directory that has information for a variety of subjects

POINTCOM
A directory and search engine regarding businesses

Search.com
A metasearch engine that integrates the results from several search engines according to relevance

Search Engine Colossus: International Directory of Search Engines
An international directory of search engines from 310 countries and territories

Search Engines Worldwide
A search engine metasite that has a list of worldwide search engines that are sorted by individual countries

Switchboard
A directory that finds people, businesses, maps, area codes, phone numbers, etc.

Symbaloo
A metasearch engine which is designed to make the web more accessible

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Telephone Directories and Locators
A search engine that provides sites for people, addresses, toll-free numbers, zip and area codes, email addresses, etc.

The Front Page: Collection of Search Engines & Sites
An online index of search engines and other Web-Site links

The Internet 800 Directory
A toll free online directory

The Ultimates
An index that finds people, email addresses, information about businesses, etc.

The Virtual Reference Desk
A combined search engine and internet directory which has some academic sources as well as government documents arranged by subject

The WWW Virtual Library
Originally a web directory, this site contains an online catalogue or directory of information resources

ThewhatUseek Directory
A meatasearch engine which provides information from whatUseek’s network of websites

TurboScout
A metasearch engine that searches 90 search engines

Ujiko
A visual search engine which allows customization of results

Webcrawler
A metasearch engine that gives the best results from several popular search engines as well as multimedia results

WebSearch.com
A search engine that has removed advertising, pop-ups, and banners

Web World
A directory organized by topic

Yahoo
A popular search engine which is also the second most visited website in the world

Yahoo! People
A search engine that finds phone numbers, addresses, and email addresses

YELLOW PAGES. COM
A directory that finds businesses, people, yellow pages, maps/directions, etc.

ZapMeta
A metasearch engine that doesn’t have banners or pop-up ads

Zuula
A metasearch engine that uses tabs to organize the results from the various search engines that have been searched

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