| Types of Information |
Suggested Search Engines |
| Want quality, evaluated sites that include reviews and ratings? |
Teoma offers relevant web pages, suggestions for refining your search, and link collections from experts and enthusiasts.
Metacrawler searches the web using several search engines simultaneously. It allows you to refine your results and sort by relevance or by search engine.
The Internet Public Library, created and maintained by librarians, offers the opportunity to search prescreened sites by category or by keyword.
KidsClick is a search engine developed and maintained by librarians. 600+ subjects are arranged alphabetically and are also searchable by key words.
Librarian's Index to the Internet is a excellent subject directory maintained by the Library of California of pre-screened, authoritative sites. |
| Looking for a broad overview of the Internet? |
Yahoo! organizes information from general to specific topics. |
| Looking for a good search engine with an easy to use, clean- looking search page? |
Google provides good results with little confusion. Also included is an image search engine. |
| Know the date of the event? |
HotBot limits the search by date. |
| Need mathematics or statistics information? |
MathSearch locates material concerned with research-level and university mathematics. |
| Looking for newspapers? |
News Central is a national and international index to newspapers. |
| Need sites just for kids? |
Yahooligans! Is a web guide for kids. |
| Want to search the "Invisible" or "Deep" web? |
Invisible-web.net
Profusion
Complete Planet
Genius Find
Librarians’ Index to the Internet
Incy Wincy
and Pinakes are all ways to find that large part of the web generally inaccessible through other search engines. Examples are historic documents contained in the Library of Congress' American Memory collection and the images at the National Gallery of Art. |
| Need a specialized search engine? |
Beaucoup offers lists of specialized search engines. |
| Need to find images? |
Google and Metacrawler both have image-only search engines. |
