Web Search Engine Guide

Recommended Search Tools - Librarians' Index to the Internet This web site is also listed below under Directories. If you are looking for good advice and direct access to multiple search tools this should be your first stop.

Search Engine Watch This web site is the best on the web for information on search engines. Includes a list of all major search engines & their varieties, reviews, ratings & tests, plus excellent searching tips.

SearchIQ Search engine reviews, directory of search engines and search databases from ZDNet.

Web Search at About.com Follow Chris Sherman, a web guide at About.com, to help you untangle the web. Lots of good advice, current articles, search engine links & reviews.

Research Buzz Up to the minute news on all the "flavors" of search engines.

Search for Images & Multimedia

Librarian Favorites

Search Engines
Google	All the Web	Ask.com
Altavista	Goto.com	Direct Search Search the Invisible Web
Hotbot	Ask.com	Lycos
Excite	LookSmart	MSN Search
	Yahoo	Wisenut

MetaSearch Engines
Vivisimo	Dogpile	Ixquick Metasearch
Metacrawler	Search.com (CNET)	Proteus Internet Search
Search Bug

Directories & Specialty Sites
About.com	Librarian's Index to the Internet	Open Directory
My Virtual Reference Desk	Xrefer	itools
Digital Librarian	Galaxy (einet)	Google Usenet Search
AlphaSearch	The Invisible Web	InfoMine
Argus Clearinghouse	Law Library Resource Xchange	Library of Congress Catalog
Liszt	Yahoo! News Image Gallery	Virtual Gumshoe

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