Which engine and when to use it

Google

Yahoo! http://www.yahoo.com

MSN Search http://search.msn.co.uk/

Brainboost http://www.brainboost.com/

Factbites http://www.factbites.com/

Answers.com http://www.answers.com/

Open Directory Project http://www.dmoz.org

Librarian's Index to the Internet http://lii.org/

SOSIG http://www.sosig.ac.uk

Pinakes http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html

Teoma http://www.teoma.com

Wisenut http://www.wisenut.com

Clusty http://clusty.com/

Google Personalized http://labs.google.com/personalized

Exalead http://beta.exalead.com/search/C=0/2p=1

Zapmeta http://zapmeta.com/

eZ2Find http://ez2find.com/


Ixquick http://www.ixquick.com/
Fazzle http://www.fazzle.com/log.jsp


TurboScout http://www.turboscout.com/

Jux2 http://www.jux2.com/

Thumbshots Ranking http://ranking.thumbshots.com/

IceRocket http://www.icerocket.com/

Mooter http://www.mooter.com/moot

WebBrain http://www.webbrain.com/html/default_win.html

Turbo10 http://turbo10.com/


askjeeves


Free search engine that locates scientific information on the net!

Look up the answer to just about any question at the Info Please
Info Please!


about: subject directory

Put together by librarians to answer reference questions, the Librarians' Index to the Internet:
www.lii.org

LookSmart has 12 main categories and over 25,000 subcategories:
www.looksmart.com

Webcrawler

Snap has 16 major topics etc.:
www.snap.com

Suite 101 is member-based organization that recruits contributing editors to create Web guides pertaining to areas of expertise:
www.suite101.com

Top Ten Links is a collection of the best subject directories, based on votes by visitors of the site:
www.toptenlinks.com

Another great site for any type of question!! It combines many search engines:
www.askjeeves.com

And here is a list of more popular search engines:


www.northernlight.com

www.hotbot.com

www.go.com

www.lycos.com

http://home.miningco.com

www.aol.com

www.nlsearch.com

www.WebCrawler.com

www.yahoo.com

www.metacrawler.com

Shopping: www.aaa.com.au/

www.excite.com

Specialty directories:
www.search.com

Look up the answer to just about any question at Info Please
www.infoplease.com

The most comprehensive database of images on the Internet:
http://image.altavista.com

A comprehensive database of educational material. The sites are reviewed and judged by educators:Awesome Library organizes the Web with 25,000 carefully reviewed resources,
including the top 5 percent in education www.neat-schoolhouse.org

Full text of E.Cobham Brewer's classic reference. It explains the origins of English phrases and characters from myths and fables
www.bibliomania.com/Reference/PhraseAndFable/index.html

Spanish language subject directory:
www.dirglobal.net

You'll find here the description of various Usenet newsgroups:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/usenet-i/hier-s/top.html

Collection of modern quotations:
www.starlingtech.com/quotes

Useful collection of reference material: dictionaries, thesauri, translations, acronyms, biographies and maps:
www.iTools.com/research-it

Complete thesaurus onlin, Roget's Thesaurus. Type in a word and you'll get a group of alternative words:
www.thesaurus.com/thesaurus

Canadian online directory (media related):
www.sources.com

Another collection of specialized search engines:
www.jumpcity.com/start.shtml

Internet Movie Database: Movie related site, reports who cover Hollywood use it:
www.imdb.com


Useful search tool/portal