Search Engines on the Internet

Search Engines: There are many many search engines available on the Internet. Search Engines allow you to enter key words and phrases to locate sites that are relevant to your interest or query. Here are just a few.

Google This search engine is highly recommended by librarians.
Yahoo!
Metacrawler
Altavista
Ask Jeeves
Hot Bot
Info Seek
Lycos
Northern Light
Webcrawler

Search Directories
Search directories and subject trees are search tools that are organized and indexed by topic. The indexed sites have been selected by professionals, so sites are often evaluated, reviewed and rated in order to be included in a subject directory.

Excite
Snap
Yahoo
Internet Public Library

Meta Search Engines
These are useful for searching a topic from several different web indexes or search engines. This approach is helpful when you want to get an overview of what is available.

Dog Pile
Meta Crawler

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