Beaucoup - a list of 2500 search engines including many foreign ones.
A short list of some of the more useful and powerful search engines available
Beaucoup - a list of 2500 search engines including many foreign ones.
Deep search engines offer searches on focused databases which are often "invisible" to regular search engines. These databases publish results only as the result of a direct query and the results are not persistent.
CompletePlanet The Deep Web Directory 70,000 + searchable databases
pipl search the deep web for people.
Turbo10 accesses about 800 online databases
Answers.com delivers encyclopedia like results rather than links. It is a reference search service with content from encyclopedias, dictionaries glossaries and atlases. Excellent for quick information on a topic
ASK.com Searching for highly authoritative web pages, Ask uses the retired brand Teoma (expert in Gaelic) Engine which ranks a site based on the number of same-subject pages that reference it. Results are grouped by subject and as a listing. A suggested refinements section helps to focus your search. Under the suggested refinements are resource pages containing site summaries.
Bing is an algortihmic search engine from Microsoft. Search pages are customized according to what type of search you do (health, travel, shopping, news, sports). The algorithms determine the order and layout of the page. This can include anything from images to videos and local results.
Blekko, a new search engine in Beta as of November 1, 2010, uses a Wikipedia style user base to help generate spam-free search results using slashtags. Slashtags are filters designed to deliver only relevant results. About slashtags | List of some slashtags
FindHow a seach engine for How to's. "To empower people to achieve success at every task, in whatever role and stage of life they are in, by simplifying and speeding access to trusted, reliable How-To content on the Internet. "
FOTOSEARCH is a commercial site for images, but, as was pointed out to me, you don't have to use the images. You could just view them. At upwards of $400 per picture students are unlikely to be dropping these into a presentation. Good for browsing though.
It's hard to imagine some things being any better: the DC-3, college in the 60's, Torvell & Dean. Google, however, continues to add features that improve this "best search engine". Google and Google's Advanced Search are designed to find the most relevant Web pages. This is the search engine by which all others are judged. Start with Google and you probably won't have to go anywhere else.
The Google Apps Learning Center will give you tutorials on all aspects of using these amazing programs.
Google has several links just above the search entry box plus a "more" link. They vary from time to time and have included:
Web for regular internet text searches.Images search is as good for images as the regular Google is for text.
Maps lets you see a map or a satellite view of most locations in the United States. You can also get directions, business locations and contact information. Try typing in your zipcode. The pan and zoom features are amazing. Also try Google Earth, a free download for satellite and arial images.
News puts related news stories from 25000 sources during the last 30 days in the same search grouping.
Shopping is a shopping robot that harnesses Google's powerful search capabilities to find the lowest prices for any item on the web. Use it in conjunction with the number range operator .. to search for a range of prices.
GMail A free but ad support web mail client.
Books allows for full text searching of selected books.
Groups for usernet discussion groups.
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To get a dictionary definition of any word, type define:yourword in the search box. Or add the dictionarysearch extension to Firefox to enable right clicking for a definition.
To find files of a specific type use filetype:xxx where xxx can be xls, pdf, ppt, etc. Example Ford F-100 filetype:pdf
To limit your search to the Title Bar use intltle:"xx xxx" Example intitle: "Sebago mocs "
If you are an aspiring internet research guru check out Google Help Central. The Special Features explains more about cached pages, phone numbers, maps and stock quotes. The "I'm Feeling Lucky" button will take you directly to the top ranked web page, bypassing the list of other sites found. Options lists all the various services Google offers. Make Google searches even faster by adding a Google Search button to your browser toolbar. Then you can highlight text on any web page and do an immediate search without copying and pasting the search term.
Richard Byrne in his excellent freetech4teachers web site has tutorials about using Google that you can use yourself or show in your classroom.
http://www.lyricsnmusic.com/
"A lyric and music search engine for music people by music people. Get Lyrics plus YouTube, Concert Dates, Artwork, and Wikipedia results all on one page."
Blowin in the Wind returned 37 entries including one by Matlene Dietrich but not one by Bob Dylan. On the other hand someone more contemporary such as Kate Voegele seemed to do much better.
A metasearch engine that applies your search query to 14 search engines. Ixquick lets you search for MP3 files, photos, and news from six sources in plain English or with Boolean operators. Comprehensive results with few redundancies. Also protects your privacy more than most other search engines.
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Search.com searches "Yahoo, Direct Hit, Lycos, Inktomi, Goto.com and 700 other search engines." They also metasearch specialized engines from around the web.
More like a scrapbook than a search engine, Spezify pulls pages from a large number of websites in different visual ways. lt shows you blogs, videos, microblogs and images.
Sweet Search, a search engine for students evaluates more than 35,000 web sites. It ranks more higly credible sources such as academic institutions and primary sources. "SweetSearch helps students find outstanding information, faster. It enables them to determine the most relevant results from a list of credible resources, and makes it much easier for them to find primary sources. We exclude not only the spam sites that many students could spot, but also the marginal sites that read well and authoritatively, but lack academic or journalistic rigor."
A search engine and teacher's resource. "At Thinkfinity.org, you'll find primary source materials, interactive student resources and grade-specific research lists." "All of Thinkfinity.org's 55,000 standards-based K-12 lesson plans, student materials, interactive tools and reference materials are reviewed by the nation's leading education organizations to ensure that content is accurate, up-to-date, unbiased and appropriate for students."
Vivisimo is another metasearch engine that clusters listings in folders. A clean design along with options for configuring the page view (only in Internet Explorer) make this new tool worth looking at. They also have a toolbar for Firefox called improbably, Clusty.
Wolfram Alpha is a compuational search engine, the search engine you didn’t know you needed. While other search engines find things that already exist on the internet, Wolfram Alpha answers questions and also gives detailed information from real sources in the realms of science, math, geography and demographics. It performs numeric calculations on the data and displays the results in graphs and tables. Try searches such as "Leigh, Genevieve", "weather 02575", "isopropyl alcohol" or "gdp usa" (all without quotes).
A list of image search sites from About.com
The British Museum is an "authoritative source of images depicting world culture and history including ceramics, sculpture, prints, drawings, and paintings."
ColRD: "Create and share color inspiration with the world."
NBC News Archives On Demand (Subscription) 12,000 broadcast-quality media resources withtext transcripts
Sam Low, an island photographer has some stunning views of Martha's Vineyard in his gallery.
Netflix in addition to sending you DVDs by mail has an instant streaming service. Instantwatcher.com simplifies searching for instant movies. Combine it with the Internet Movie Database and all you need is some popcorn. IMDB covers TV shows as well. Joost and Hulu
Pandora internet radio will build a list of like artists from your starting list. Make a radio station and hear streaming music from your favorite artist as well as similar music.
Spotify is the online, on demand music service you can now use. A premium subscription without ads is also available.
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Zamzar converts files from one format to another
Yousendit transfer large files person to person, 14 day free trial
Consumer electronic devices from Retrevo will give you information about your device categorized by manufacturer documentation, reviews and posts.
AVS video editor allows you to edit YouTube videos (windows only) or use the free online snip snip
Zotero "[zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself." You can download this plugin for your browser. Another 'capture anything' site is Evernote, also a plugin. Both of these require you to sign up for a free account.
Abondance, search engines in French. Also see their main page.
Lycos is a directory, as is Yahoo, but with a less cluttered front page. The advanced search features are more powerful than Yahoo's.
Yahoo - useful for drilling down by subjects, preferred by many new users. Yahoo selects a small fraction of the web for inclusion in its directory. However it is a very good small fraction.Some basics of searching including Search Engine Links, Search Engine Tips and the Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT and NEAR.
What do other people search for? Try Google Zeitgeist