Searching the Internet can be frustrating and confusing. Reference librarians can work with you and suggest a search engine or a directory that might work best for a particular project. If you are off campus, use our Ask a Librarian service for online assistance.

General Search Engines

• Google
• Yahoo
• MSN Search
• AOL Search
• A9
• AllTheWeb
• AllTheWeb Live Search
• Alta Vista
• Ask
• Dogpile
• Internet Archive: Wayback Machine
• Vivisimo

Specialized Search Engines

• Answers.com
• CiteSeer - Scientific literature digital library
• Complete Planet
• Google Blog Search
• Google Image Search
• Google Maps
• Google Book Search - Search the full text of books
• Google Scholar - Search for scholarly articles
• Findlaw - Law
• FirstGov - Goverment
• Indeed - Jobs
• National Science Digital Library
• Open CRS Network - Congressional Research Service reports
• Scirus - Searches over 200 million science-specific Web pages
• Search Engines and Subject Directories for Multimedia
• SMEALSearch - Academic business literature digital library
• SpeechBot - Audio & video content
• Technorati - Search millions of weblogs (blogs)
• Windows Live Academic - Computer science, electrical engineering and physics
• Ziggs - Professionals

Internet Subject Directories and Guides

• BUBL Link
• DMOZ Open Directory Project
• Infomine
• Intute - Database created by network of UK universities contains 116847 records.
• Librarians' Index to the Internet
• Scout Report - Note: log in is optional

Last update: Monday, February 11, 2008