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Selected Internet Search Engines

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SEARCH ENGINES

See "How do Search Engines work?," courtesy of UC Berkeley.

Proximity Search Engine Tips

• Enter something like this into Google Search:  pizza AROUND(2) restaurant
    ... for a Google proximity search for the word "pizza" within 2 words of "restaurant"
  
  

• Enter something like this into Bingh Search:  pizza near:2 restaurant
    ... for a Bing proximity search for the word "pizza" within 2 words of "restaurant"

Here are links to some popular Search Engines:

• Google 
        Try these tips for quick and easy Google searches with specific results, or 
        Explore Google Search
• Yahoo! Search 
• Windows Live 
• Exalead 
• Ask.com (aka "Ask Jeeves")
• bing (formerly MSNsearch)

 

...or try one of these...

Duck Duck Go
  All answers on first results page, good question clarification, less ad spam


Webopedia 
  Encyclopedic resource for searching techno terminology and computer definitions


Mahalo 
  "Human powered" search site: fewer results but with good quality and relevance

DIRECTORIES

 

• About.com 
• Internet Public Library
• Librarians' Internet Index 

• Yahoo! Directory

 

META SEARCH ENGINES

 

• Clusty
• Dogpile 
• Ixquick 

 

NEWS

 

• Topix.net 
  This search engine searches 35,000 news sources, including numerous local ones across the country.

MULTIMEDIA SEARCH

 

• FindSounds
  Find Sounds is a search engine for sound effects including many animal sounds
• Ithaki 
  Image Meta Search Engine
• Lumerias

 

 

IMAGES

 

• Imagery 
• Google Image Search 
• Yahoo Image Search 
• Ask Images Search 
• MSN Live Image Search 
• Flickr Images 

 

WEBLOGS

 

• GetBlogs
• Podfeed
  
   

WEBPAGE TRANSLATORS

 

• Google Language Tools
• Yahoo Babel Fish

 

 

 

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