Internet Search Tools:
Selected Resources

• Search Engines
• Metasearch Engines
• Subject Directories
• Specialty Search Engines
• Specialty Databases

Major Search Engines

Get detailed information about the following search engines:

• Google
• Yahoo!
• MSN
• Ask.com
• Gigablast
• Exalead

• http://www.google.com
• http://www.yahoo.com
• http://www.msn.com
• http://ask.com
• http://gigablast.com
• http://www.exalead.com/search

Metasearch Engines

• Dogpile
• Clusty

• http://dogpile.com/
• http://clusty.com/

Subject Directories

• LII (Librarians' Internet Index)
• Infomine
• Yahoo!

• http://lii.org
• http://infomine.ucr.edu
• http://www.yahoo.com

Specialty Search Engines

Get detailed information about specialized searches

Audio

• Yahoo! Audio Search

• http://www.yahoo.com

Blogs (find out what a blog is

• Technorati
• Google

• http://www.technorati.com
• http://www.google.com

Images

• Google Images
• Yahoo! Images
• Ask.com Images

• http://www.google.com
• http://www.yahoo.com
• http://ask.com

Maps, Directories, Local Searches

• Google Maps
• Google Local
• Yahoo! Maps
• Yahoo! Local
• MSN Live Local

• http://maps.google.com
• http://local.google.com
• http://maps.yahoo.com
• http://local.yahoo.com
• http://local.live.com

Music

• Pandora
• allmusic

• http://www.pandora.com
• http://allmusic.com

People, Groups

• Yahoo! People Finder
• Yahoo! Groups
• Google Groups

• http://people.yahoo.com
• http://groups.yahoo.com
• http://groups.google.com

Podcasts

• Podanza
• Podscope
• Podzinger

• http://www.podanza.com/
• http://podscope.com
• http://podzinger.com

Video

• Google Video
• Yahoo! Video
• AOL Video
• Blinkx

• http://video.google.com
• http://video.search.yahoo.com
• http://www.aol.com/video/
• http://blinkx.com/

Specialty Databases

• Answers.com

• http://www.answers.com/

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