Search Engines Search Engines
 www.google.comwww.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html Google and Google Cheatsheet |
http://search.yahoo.com/ Yahoo search |
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www.search.com/ Search.com |
www.webring.org Web Ring. Collections of Web sites related to one another. |
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www.mamma.com Mamma. Bills itself as the "Mother of all search engines." |
www.searchmil.com/ Military web site search engine |
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www.encyberpedia.com/ency.htm A huge link collection that functions as a quasi-encyclopedia on the Web |
www.metacrawler.com MetaCrawler. |
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www.nlsearch.com Northern Light search. Searches web and a large body of off-Web data. |
www.fire-find.com/ A search engine for firefighters |
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www.ask.com/ Ask.com |
www.goofram.com/ Searches Google and Wolfram at the same time |
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www.itpapers.com Online catalogue for white papers. |
www.dogpile.com Dogpile |
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http://dmoz.org DMOZ. Open directory project. A catalogue site that uses thousands of online editors. |
www.answers.com/ Answers.com |
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http://www.shodanhq.com/ URL and IP address search engine |
www.voila.com An international search engine that concentrates on vertical industry niches. |
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www.mysimon.com Searches more than 2000 online shops |
www.browsys.com/search/ Multi-search screen |
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www.magportal.com/ Searches for articles in magazines |
http://askville.amazon.com/ Askville |
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www.addall.com/ Book search and price comparisons (for even out-of-print books.) |
www.alexa.com/ Search engine that helps find the best sites |
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www.soople.com/ Precision searching in Google |
www.scirus.com/srsapp/ Science search engine |
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www.icerocket.com/ Search (including blogs) |
www.gigablast.com/ Gigablast |
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www.infospace.com General reference material of many kinds |
http://scholar.google.com/ Google Scholar |
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www.business.com/ Business search engine |
www.exalead.com/search Search engine with visuals of web page |
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www.zibb.com/ Vertical business search engine |
www.philb.com/whichengine.htm Advice on which search engine to use |
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www.factbites.com/index.html Search Engine with encyclopedia |
http://answers.yahoo.com/ Answers from real people |
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http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/ Law search engine |
www.ohnorobot.com/ Personalized comic search |
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www.worldcat.org/ Searches for books in nearby libraries |
www.searchsystems.net/ Public Records search engine |
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www.alacrastore.com/ Alacrastore - searches for business information |
www.freepatentsonline.com/ Patent search engine |
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www.hakia.com/ Hakia |
http://worldwidescience.org/ Science search |
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www.usa.gov/ US Government web sites search engine |
http://verticalsearch.com/ Search engine of vertical search engines |
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http://blekko.com/ Blekko |
www.boardreader.com/ A search engine for message boards |
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http://groups.yahoo.com/ Search mailing lists of interest |
https://groups.google.com Newsgroup/mailing list/discussion monitoring |
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www.topicle.com/ Search engine community |
http://hunch.com/ Hunch |
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www.triplify.com/ Triplify |
www.sensebot.net/sense6.aspx Sense Bot |
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www.wolframalpha.com/ Wolfram |
www.glearch.com/ Global search |
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www.bing.com/ Bing |
www.beaucoup.com Directory of search engines |
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http://wefollow.com/ Twitter search engine |
www.twellow.com/ Twitter search engine |
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http://yacy.net/en/ Peer to Peer search |
https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo |
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www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/Untangling_the_Web.pdf A comprehensive guide to web research |
Multimedia Searching (Images and Sound)
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http://fora.tv/ Issues TV |
http://blinkx.com/ TV video search |
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www.invision.tv/invision/ Invision |
www.exalead.com/search/ Image Search |
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www.faganfinder.com/img/ Fagan Finder |
www.hulu.com/ Hulu |
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www.vimeo.com/ Vimeo |
www.youtube.com/ YouTube |
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http://video.aol.com/ Video - AOL |
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http://video.google.com/ Video - Google |
www.earthcam.com/ Earth cams |
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http://www.google.com/imghp Google images |
http://images.search.yahoo.com/ Images Search - Yahoo |
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www.epinions.com Epinions. Online reviews |
www.allexperts.com Advice from live experts. |
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http://ehow.com eHow. A site that tells you how to do things. Expert advice. |
www.about.com A site that uses human experts to guide you through the web. |
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www.quora.com/ Quora |
www.experts-exchange.com Experts Exchange |
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http://stackexchange.com/ Stack Exchange |
Consumer Complaint Sites (There are many. Here are a few)
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www.consumeraffairs.com/ Consumeraffairs.com |
www.thesqueakywheel.com/ The Squeaky Wheel |
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www.bbb.org/ Better Business Bureau |
www.complaints.com Complaints against consumer companies |
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http://getsatisfaction.com/ Get Satisfaction |
www.baddealings.com/ Bad Dealings |
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www.yelp.com/ Yelp |
www.planetfeedback.com/ PlanetFeedback |
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http://gethuman.com/ Source for manned support lines in corporations |
