Internet Tools/Search Engines

Web Directories

• Choose Wisely - Select a search engine with a purpose.
• Yahoo! Search Directory - Web Directory maintained by 80 staff members. Indexes over 1 million web pages.
• Librarians' Index to the Internet - Selective directory maintained by librarians. Indexes over 14,000 web pages.
• Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections - Selective directory maintained by college and university librarians.
• MeL's Best of the Internet - Maintained by the Michigan Electronic Library.
• The Internet Public Library - A project of the University of Michigan School of Information Science.
• WWW Virtual Library - The oldest web catalog, and still considered one of the highest quality web indexes around.

Web Search Engines

• AltaVista
• exalead
• Excite
• Go.com
• Good50.com (especially useful for those with low vision)
• Google
• Google Scholar
• HotBot
• Invisible Web
• Lycos
• Searchedu
• Wisenut
• Wolfram/Alpha

MetaSearch Engines

• Dogpile
• Fisssh!
• ixquick.com
• MetaCrawler
• Metasearch
• Search.com by c|net
• Profusion.com