Reference & Research: Search Engines on the Internet
We all become attached to a particular search engine after a time. Once in awhile, it's good to experiment with others. Below is an alphabetical list of popular search engines. Take a look and try out a new one!
If you click on any of the search engines below, it will open another browser window outside of our web site.
Ask.com
Provides easy to use tools including, Smart Answers, image searching, white pages, and more.
AllTheWeb
One of the largest indexes of the web with strengths that include, it's big, fast, and search-focused; no stop words; database frequently refreshed; and customization.
AltaVista
Offers compact or detailed searches, a large database, powerful search features, International coverage, interfaces, and foreign language handling.
Dogpile
Dogpile searches four search engines at a time: Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask.
Uses a system for ranking web pages from billions of its indexed URLs. Google also has a spell-checker, calculator, maps, travel information and much more.
Librarians' Index to the Internet
Designed specifically for public library users. Librarians annotate and evaluate listings for their information potential.
Metacrawler
Searches the best results from the combined pool of the world's leading search engines.
WorldCat
Includes a guided search of librarian selected Internet resources. After completing your initial search in WorldCat click on "Web Resources" to limit your search to websites. Updated daily.
Yahoo
Users can browse and search subject categories and includes up-to-the-minute sports scores, weather, headlines, maps, yellow pages and stock quotes.
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