SEARCH TOOLS

BLOGS:	BLOGLINES (ASK) GOOGLE BLOG SEARCH ICEROCKET TECHNORATI
BUSINESS:	ACCOONA - Presents business web site content and its relevant business data in a complementary format. BIZNAR - One-stop business research portal. BUSINESS.COM - Comprehensive Directory and search engine that focuses exclusively on business to finding information on industries, companies, business people and products. SEARCHBUG - Find or investigate people and businesses, lookup phone number and address information. THOMASNET - Comprehensive resource for industrial information.
COMPUTATIONAL:	Wolfram\|Alpha - Computational knowledge engine translating natural language queries for retrieval of information from structured data sets.
COMPUTER SCIENCE:	CiteSeer (NEC Research Institute) - "Earth's largest free full-text index of scientific literature." It finds PostScript and PDF research articles focusing on computer and information science. TECHWEBTECHSEARCH - One-stop searching of the CMP computing and technical publications.
DATABASES: (Invisible Web)	BEAUCOUP - Over 2500 databases. BOTSPOT - Software tool for digging through data. DIRECT SEARCH - Guide to hundreds of databases and specialized resources usually not indexed by big search engines. The arrangement is somewhat confusing, but it is an excellent source for business, government and civic affairs. EEVL Xtra - Searches parts of the Web that Google doesn’t : The "Hidden Web." Find articles, books, the best websites, the latest industry news, technical reports, technical data, full text e-prints, the latest research, teaching and learning resources and more, in engineering, mathematics and computing. INFOMINE - Scholarly Internet research resources developed and supported by the Library of the University of California, Riverside.
DIRECTORIES:	LIST OF LISTS - Links to sources that present information in the form of rankings, such as the top 10 media companies, 50 largest banks, etc.
EDUCATION:	EDUCATION PLANET- Education sites, including lesson plans and supplies for instructors and classrooms. RESOURCE DISCOVERY NETWORK (RDN) - High quality Internet resources for the learning, teaching and research community. SEARCH EDU - Over 15 million university and education pages indexed and ranked in order of popularity.
ENGINEERING:	eFunda - eFunda stands for engineering Fundamentals. Its mission is to create an online destination for the engineering community, where working professionals can quickly find concise and reliable information to meet the majority of their daily reference needs. iCrank.com - has been designed to be the perfect starting page for a mechanical engineer.
GENERAL:	ABOUT.COM - Professionals build a comprehensive environment around their specific area of expertise, including the best new content, relevant links, How-To's, and answers to just about any question. ALL THE WEB - One of the largest and freshest indices with the most powerful search features. ALTAVISTA - Includes multimedia search, translation & language recognition, and specialty search ANSWERS.COM - Quick, convenient way to get basic background information on a multitude of topics. ASK - Ask questions in plain English. BING - finds and organizes the answers you need so you can make faster, more informed decisions. COLLARITY - Personalized searching. "Search and discovery from the wisdom of your crowd." DIGITAL UNIVERSE - Ever-growing array of commercial-free portals mapping the highest-quality Internet destinations, as recommended by experts recognized in their fields. EXCITE - Great source for up-to-the minute research. GIGABLAST - large-scale, high-performance, real-time information retrieval technology offering a variety of features including topic generation and the ability to index multiple document formats. GO - Popular search engine and other easy to find information. (Search powered by Yahoo.) GOOGLE - Fast, accurate results, without advertisements. GOOGLE SCHOLAR - limits its results to "scholarly literature such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports," (many items will not be full-text.) GOOGLE SQUARED - Results are presented in table form, organized horizontally by several attributes. HAKIA - Semantic search engine with credible sites selected by librarians. HOTBOT - Fast, accurate searching of indexed Internet documents. INTERNET SCOUT PROJECT - Librarians search for, summarize and organize the best sites on the web (GREAT EDUCATIONAL SITE SEARCH TOOL) INTUIT - Find the best web sources for study and research. KARTOO - Different way to look at searching. (Not ADA compliant - does not display text alternative with illustrations) KOSMIX - "Search less, and discover more great stuff." LYCOS - Large search engine database. MAXBOX - Search specialized search engines SearchEdu, SearchGov,and SearchMil for indexing from specific top-level domains. MAHALO - World's first human-powered search engine powered by an enthusiastic and energetic group of Guides who search, filter out spam, and hand-craft the best search results possible. - Offers "visual previews" of the search results. (Results of the search on the left side and the actual website is framed on the right.) OPEN DIRECTORY - Unpaid volunteers update and review all sites, which makes this page extremely useful. QUEPASA - Search in either English or Spanish - information from the United States and Spanish-speaking countries. PIPL - Comprehensive search tool to locate individuals. ROLLYO - Narrow your search to sites you know and trust; create your own custom search engines called Searchrolls; and explore, save, and personalize those created by others. THUNDERSTONE WEBSITE INDEX - Two million sites (not Web pages), continuously updated. UJIKO - "Sorts sites taking into account their common topics: instead of providing results according to a simple criterion of relevance, it orders the sites around the circle, grouping them by themes" WEBCRAWLER - Fast basic information source. Wolfram\|Alpha - "The first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone." Returns information neatly formatted with graphs and images - not Web pages. YAHOO - Subject-tree category lists.
GEOLOGY:	GeoIndex - Search engine for Geo-Environmental Professionals.
HEALTH:	HEALIA - Comprehensive health information search tool.
HISTORY:	IN THE FIRST PERSON - English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. (Primary documents) MAPS AND MAPPING - "The fascinating World of Maps and Mapping" called Odden's Bookmarks after the compiler, Roelof P. Oddens.
IMAGES:	DITTO - Solid image search engine with long standing track record.
LEGAL:	LAWCRAWLER - Legal information search engine from FindLaw.
LITERATURE:	CLASSICS - Extensive directory of literary linguistic, historical, and philosophical resources maintained by the Humanities faculty at Cambridge University.
MEDICAL and HEALTH:	Hardin Meta Directory - Information in health and medicine. MEDICAL WORLD SEARCH - SELECTED scholarly medical sites. (Access requires individually paid membership fee.) Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) - Access to the nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine. National Center for Health Statistics - Statistical health information.
META: (and/or "all-in-one") Parallel searches on one or more multiple search engines	ALL4ONE SEARCH MACHINE - Responds with results from 4 search engines and directories. CLEVERSEARCH - Claims to search MetaCrawler, Mamma, and Dogpile. CLUSTY - A companion to Vivisimo that uses "clustering technology" to categorize and organize search results. EZ2FIND - Provides coverage of the major search engines, including AlltheWeb, Teoma, Google, AltaVista, MSN (Inktomi), as well as about 1000 specialized databases. Duplicates are removed from results and include links to relevant Open Directory categories . DOGPILE - "All the results, no mess" however it has many paid listings. HIGHWAY 61 - Lighter (humorous) side of metasearching. IXQUICK - fast, comprehensive and ranks findings by relevance. Searches 14 engines. Results ranked by relevancy and includes information about which search engine it came from. Currently one of the few meta search tools that supports regular searches, natural language searches, and advanced Boolean searches. Interface is available in several languages, including English, French, Dutch, Spanish, and German. LANGENBERG - One-stop shop to use for searching anything on the web. LEAPFISH - multi-dimensional information aggregator and search portal., which gathers data from a variety of sources such as Google, YouTube, and others. MAMMA - Sends search requests to major search services - many paid listings. METACRAWLER (Metafind) - Developed by University of Washington - good configurability and search options. ONESEARCH.COM - Searches more than 12 search engines but only two at a time. ONESEEK - Direct access to dozens of search engines. OPENTEXT- Groups results by concept. PROTEUS - Also has links to search engine help pages. PURESEARCH - Search management utility designed to work look and feel like desktop software. PROFUSION - Search more than 500 sources from the Invisible Web, a vast resource of information neglected by traditional search engines. SEARCH.COM - Search over 700 search engines in real time. Best feature is ability to search many topics in specialized search engines. SUPERCRAWLER.COM - Searches major search engines, removes duplicates, sorts by confidence and displays matching results. SURFWAX - Delivers results from a broad range of sources including the visible and invisible Web, newsfeeds, and intranets. It previews and summarizes results. (Payment is required for some advanced features.) WEBINFOSEARCH - Searches an extremely large list of search engines.
NEWS and JOURNALISM:	AllTheWeb - Real time linking to news stories from over 3,000 on-line sources. NELSON SEARCH - "The search tool for journalists."
PEOPLE:	LANGENBERG - One-stop shop to use for searching anything on the web, including people. PIPL - Searches the deep web using username, email address, phone number. SPOCK - Focus is on people specific data. WHOSTALKIN - Search for posts made about an individual. WINK - Find people at social networks like MySpace, Bebo, LinkedIn & Friendster, and other online communities. YONAME - Gathers information about individuals from 36 sites - search by username, email address, phone number, etc ZOOMINFO - Business-related people information.
PHILOSOPHY:	PHILOSOPHY - Extensive directory of philosophical resources maintained by the Voice of the Shuttle.
PODCASTS:	Search for audio and video Podcasts! FEEDSTER INDIEPODER PLUGGED Podcast Alley PODCAST DIRECTORY PODCAST NET PODCAST NETWORK Podscope
POLITICAL SCIENCE:	FIRST GOV - Searchable access to over 50 million web pages from federal and state governments, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. Subject categories make it easy to find information from specific agencies. POLITICAL INFORMATION - More than 5000 sites chosen for quality of their content that relates to politics and the political process.
SEARCH SEARCH ENGINES:	ALT SEARCH ENGINES - provides information on more than 1000 alternative or niche search engines. SEARCH ENGINE GUIDE - Guide to search engines, portals and directories.
SCIENCE:	Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service - Powerful search engine for each of its four bibliographic databases: Astronomy and Astrophysics (1,113,218 records), including 106,464 abstracts from Planetary Sciences and Solar Physics journals ; Instrumentation (777,377 records), including 212,771 abstracts from SPIE conference proceedings; Physics and Geophysics (2,035,073 records), including 380,005 abstracts from APS journals; and ArXiv Preprints (331,814 records), consisting of all the papers published in the ArXiv e-print archive. Atomic Spectra Database - contains critically evaluated NIST data for radioactive transitions and energy levels in atoms and atomic ions CiteSeer (NEC Research Institute) - "Earth's largest free full-text index of scientific literature." CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) is a searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions. DUCKDATA - Provides a comprehensive bibliography of published literature on the ecology, conservation, and management of North American waterfowl and their wetland habitats. E-Prints - Preprints and Working Papers maintained by Stanford. ENTREZ - Life sciences search engine. GeoRef database - Established by the American Geological Institute in 1966, provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. Haz-Map: Information on Hazardous Chemicals and Occupational Diseases - Occupational diseases and chemical searches. Hazardous Substances Database (HSDB) - By TOXNET are databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases. ISC (International Seismological Centre) Bulletin - Earthquake information. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) - Bibliographic database covering the literature from volume 500 to current volumes of LNCS of Springer-Verlag. Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) - From Stanford University Environmental & Health Safety. Patents, Inventions, and Technology Transfer Links to many patent databases maintained by Stanford University. SCIENCE.GOV - Gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results. Includes deep web technology (DWT). SCIENCE RESEARCH - Designed to search across and federate more than 300 science-related public and commercial Web collections in real time. SCIRUS - The most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet."
SOCIAL SCIENCE:	SOCIAL SCIENCE INFORMATION GATEWAY - Selects and describes the best resources available in the social sciences.
SPECIALTY:	QUEPASA - Search in either English or Spanish - information from the United States and Spanish-speaking countries.
VIDEO:	Blinkx - Search over 14 hours of video. GOOGLE VIDEO - Search for, watch and buy an ever-growing collection of TV shows, movies, music videos, documentaries, personal productions and more. TUBESURF - Quickly find videos on YouTube, MySpace Videos, Google Video, and Yahoo! Video. YouTube - Watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. YAHOO VIDEO - Search millions of videos from across the Web.