Subject Directories & Encyclopedias

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Meta Search Engines

• 43 Marks - offers separate searches of Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Wikipedia with a one-click toggle between search results; also serves as a personal home page for collecting bookmarks
• Browsys - offers Search Assistant for searching numerous sources including the social and the deep Web; Virtual Folders allow users to create, save and bookmark custom folders containing up to 12 favorite sites
• Cacti Search - search Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask, and retrive a collated results list with an option to view results from each engine separately
• Dogpile - search numerous search engines and presented collated results; also presents concept clusters for viewing results organized by keywords or topics
• iBoogie - offers searches of the Web and multimedia, and supplies real-time concept clustering of results
• Ixquick - ranks results based on top ten rankings from the source search engines; offers substantial privacy protection to searchers
• Mamma - retrieve results from numerous sources; also offers search suggestions related to your search
• MetaCrawler - retrieve results from Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Ask; also offers search suggestions related to your search
• Searchzooka - offers advanced search options on Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Ask, Digg and Technorati with a single mouse click; users can save searches for future use, organize the searches into folders, and clone new searches from existing ones
• Virtual Learning Resources Center - searches several high quality directories; also offers its own directory
• ZapMeta - searches a handful of sources, and offers concept clusters for organizing search results
• Zuula - searches the Web, images, news, blogs and jobs postings, and returns results from multiple search tools in configurable separate tabs

General Search Engines

• 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 images, news and video; search results show related searches and popular questions and answers
• 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 "likes" into search results
• ChaCha - offers live human guides to help answer queries; accepts queries 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 thumbnail images of retrieved sites, and organization of results by type of site, file type, language and country
• Factbites - searches for full topic matches and returns meaningful, full sentence excerpts from sites in its results list; offers related searches
• Google - Web's most popular search engine. 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 Blog Search, for searching blog entries
• Google Book Search, for searching the full text of books from most publishers in the U.S.
• 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 and news, blogs and Twitter
• 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 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:
• SearchGov.com - .gov domain
• SearchMil.com - .mil domain
• 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
• SimilarPages.com - search by keyword or website address and retrieve a focused list of related sites; offers a Firefox Add-On that displayst a list of up to 300 sites similar to the one you are currently viewing along with other features
• SnappyFingers - searches millions of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for answers to user queries; displays excerpts from the retrieved material
• 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; the search feature uses the Bing index and offers the Axis app for visual results
• Zanran - searches for data and statistics found in graphs, tables and charts; hover your mouse over the item icon for a preview