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
• Bing
• Ask
• Internet Archive: Wayback Machine - "Browse through over 150 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago."
• Microsoft Academic Search "Explore 36,760,248 publications and 18,804,925 authors, ." (on 9 January 2012)

Specialized Search Tools

• Answers.com
• Blinkx - Video search engine
• CiteSeer - Scientific literature digital library
• Complete Planet - "Discover over 70,000 searchable databases and specialty search engines."
• Finding Multimedia Online
• Findlaw - Legal information
• Google Books - Search the full text of books. There is an advanced search option.
• Google Correlate - "Finds search patterns which correspond with real-world trends."
• Google Images
• Google Insights for Search - " Compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, time frames and properties."
• Google Maps
• Google Ngram Viewer - "When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books (e.g., "British English", "English Fiction", "French") over the selected years."
• Google Scholar - Search for scholarly articles
• Indeed - Jobs
• National Science Digital Library
• Scirus - Searches over 200 million science-specific Web pages
• Technorati - Search millions of weblogs (blogs)
• USAGov - U.S. Goverment's official web portal
• Wolfram Alpha - Computational knowledge engine. Try a search for budget surplus
• YouTube

Internet Subject Directories and Guides

• DMOZ Open Directory Project
• Infomine - "Scholarly internet resource collections."
• Scout Report

Last update: Monday, January 09, 2012