Directories
Search Engines
Invisible Web
Metasearchers
Guides to Search Engines
Blogs
Podcasts
Image Searching
Specialty Search Options

---------Select Topic---------- ---------Subject Pages---------- Business/Economics Communications Cultures/History Education Equestrian Fine Arts Foreign Language General Reference Hot Topics Instructional Technology Language/Literature Law Online Newspapers/News Politics/Government Psychology Science/Environment September 11 Resources ---------Select Database---------- Facts.com InfoTrac Web NewsBank ProQuest PsycInfo Who's Who All databases ---------Other Options---------- Interlibrary Loan Research FAQs Hot Topics Research Guides Search Engines

*recommended sites
Directories: Collections of Internet sites maintained by another web site. Easy browsing by subject.

Academic Info (http://www.academicinfo.net)
*Google Directory (http://directory.google.com)
*Librarian's Index to the Internet (http://lii.org)
LookSmart (http://www.looksmart.com)
Open Directory Project (http://www.dmoz.org)
*Virtual Reference Shelf (http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/virtualref.html)
WWW Virtual Library (http://www.vlib.org)
Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com)

Search Engines: Offers the ability to keyword search a large part of the Web.

A9 (http://www.a9.com)
AllTheWeb (http://www.alltheweb.com)
Altavista (http://www.altavista.com)
*Ask.com (http://www.ask.com)
BASE (http://base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/index_english.html)
*Domain Tools (http://www.domaintools.com): find out where a domain name is registered at this site.
Factbites (http://www.factbites.com)
*Google (http://www.google.com)
*Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com)
Mooter Search (http://www.mooter.com)
*Wikiseek (http://www.wikiseek.com): use this to search Wikipedia
*Wisenut (http://www.wisenut.com)
Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com)

Local Search Options: a great place to go to find a local dry cleaner, restaurant, hotel, etc.
Ask.com Business Search (http://city.ask.com/city)
Google Maps (http://maps.google.com)
Yahoo Local (http://local.yahoo.com)

Invisible Web Search Engines: Find web pages not ordinarily found using regular search engines.

*CompletePlanet (http://www.completeplanet.com)
Direct Search (http://www.freepint.com/gary/direct.htm)
*OAIster (http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister)

Academic Index (http://www.academicindex.net)
*Clusty (http://www.clusty.com)
*CrossEngine (http://www.crossengine.com)
*Dogpile (http://www.dogpile.com)
Info.com (http://www.info.com)
Informiti (http://www.informiti.com)
*IxQuick (http://ixquick.com)
Izito (http://www.izito.com)
Mamma (http://www.mamma.com)
MetaCrawler (http://www.metacrawler.com)
*Pandia (http://www.pandia.com)

Guides to Search Engines: These are compilations of search engine sites as well as statistical information about them to help narrow down the best to use for research.

12,500 Search Engines (http://www.search-engines-2.com)
Beaucoup (http://www.beaucoup.com)
Finding What You Need With the Best Search Engines (http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm)
*Glossary: Search Terms (http://www.searchtools.com/info/glossary.html)
*NoodleTools (http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html)
Search Engine Colossus (http://www.searchenginecolossus.com)
SearchEngineGuide (http://www.searchengineguide.com)
*SearchEngineShowdown (http://www.searchengineshowdown.com)
*Search Engine Watch (http://www.searchenginewatch.com)

Blogs: According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project’s recent report, 32 million Americans read blogs, 8 million have their own blogs, and 6 million have RSS readers. These sites can help you find one!

AdRants (http://www.adrants.com)
Blogger's Code of Conduct (http://blogging.wikia.com/wiki/BCC)
*Bloglines (http://bloglines.com)
BlogPulse (http://www.blogpulse.com)
*EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers (http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg)
Feedster (http://feedster.com)
Google Blogsearch (http://google.com/blogsearch)
*Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents
(http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=542)
OpinMind (http://www.opinmind.com)
*Technorati (http://www.technorati.com): find out what's going on in the world of weblogs.

Podcasts: Finding a good podcast can be made easier using the following tools:

Apple iTunes Podcasts (http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts)
Podcast Alley (http://www.podcastalley.com)
PodcastNet: The Podcast Directory (http://www.podcast.net)
Podscope (http://podscope.com)
Podzinger (http://podzinger.com)
Yahoo Podcasts (http://podcasts.yahoo.com)

Image Searching: Easy ways to search for images. Please be aware of copyright constraints.

*Answers.com (http://www.answers.com): encyclopedia or factual answers to a query instead of just a web page.
*Blinkx.tv (http://www.blinkx.tv): search TV and video here
Comparison Engine (http://rankcomparison.di.unipi.it): find your site's ranking on over a dozen various search engines.
Froogle (http://.froogle.google.com): from Google--allows you to comparison shop for items online.
GoFish (http://www.gofish.com): search for song lyrics here.
Google Press Center: Zeitgeist (http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html): see what everyone's searching for!
Google Video (http://video.google.com): search keywords to bring up tv programs with those words.
*Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org): shows past webpages for URLs (kind of a fun place to check out!)
*MeeVee (http://www.meevee.com): get your local TV listings (along with previews)
SearchEDU (http://www.searchedu.com): searches all .edu sites on Google (over 20 million pages!)
Shopzilla (http://www.shopzilla.com): compare reviews and prices for a variety of products.
TVEyes (http://tveyes.com): search TV and video and get video clips from major news outlets.
*YouTube (http://www.youtube.com)