Alexa Web Search - analyzes site traffic including ranking, global users, pages linking to the site, and links to related pages of interest
Ask.com - general search engine enhanced by a number of specialty searches including a dictionary, thesaurus, currency converter, encyclopedia, maps, news and more
Bing - Microsoft engine that displays excerpts from sites retrieved by your search and offers related search suggestions; multimedia and other deep Web results are also displayed. Also check out Bing Maps.
Blekko - retrieves results from trustworthy sites and offers filtered searching with the use of slash tags, e.g., global warming /climate; can sort results by relevance or date; allows searchers to integrate their Facebook newsfeed into search results
ChaCha - offers live human guides to help answer queries; focuses on questions from mobile devices
DuckDuckGo - offers results from content-rich sites, displays "zero-click" answers at the top of the search result page, and features numerous search options and site settings; offers unusual search privacy
Exalead - offers concept clustering of results, thumbnail images of retrieved sites, and customization options such as organization of results by file type, geography or modification date
Factbites - searches for full topic matches and returns meaningful, full sentence excerpts of sites in its results list
FindFiles.net - searches for all MIME types found on the Web, for example audio, video, images, software, PDF files, text documents, cascading style sheets, xml documents and zip archives
Google - Web's most popular search engine that retrieves results in real time as you type your search. Also check out EcoSmartSearch.com, a Google-powered search engine with a black background display that saves energy.
Google offers a number of Services that are worth exploring, including:
Google Book Search, for searching the full text of books from most publishers in the U.S.
Google Directory, for searching the Google version of the Open Directory
Google Scholar, offers the full text, abstracts, and/or citations to scholarly materials including books, journal articles, documents in academic repositories and the free Web. This link will allow you to access the full text of articles in journals to which the Libraries subscribe when you are off campus.
Google U.S. Government Search, a searchable database of U.S. government Web sites (.gov and .mil) ranked by link popularity
Hakia - organizes results into types of information sources, including "credible " sites recommended by librarians
iSEEK Education - offers authoritative resources from university, government, and established noncommercial providers; organizes results into concept clusters, and also allows users to recommend and rate sites
Lycos - general search engine that also offers searches of a few deep Web content sources including people look-up, yellow pages, and multimedia
Quintura - displays a type of tag cloud with keywords related to your search that can be selected to generate new results
SearchEdu.com - service that limits results to the .edu, domain; also offers to search well-known dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, etc. See also:
SearchTeam - real-time collaborative search engine that allows you to search, save results, and collaborate with invited others; you can comment, chat, share documents and links, etc. to create a useful SearchSpace on any topic; integrates with such social networks as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter
SnappyFingers - searches millions of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for answers to user queries
Wolfram|Alpha - enter a question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and own collection of data to compute the answer
Yahoo! - portal with a general Web search and many other content services
Zanran - searches for data and statistics found in graphs, tables and charts; hover your mouse over the item icon for a preview
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