Search Engines

Search Engines

Getting started

(Guides for parental controls and kid safe sites)
Google Search Help (Learn to use Google)
Google Business Referral (Earn money for each referral)
Google Tutor (Tips for Google users)
IP Proxy (Surf anonymously from Anonymouse)
IP Proxy (Surf anonymously from The Cloak)
IP Proxy (Surf anonymously from PH Proxy)
IP Proxy (Surf anonymously from Provoxy)
IP Proxy (Surf anonymously from Proxify)
IP Proxy (Surf anonymously from Tor)
Librarians Index to the Internet (Information you can trust)
Noodle Tools (Helps select the best database by what you're looking for)
Safe Surfing Tips (Consumer.gov)
Search Engine Features (Compare searching parameters)
Search Engine Watch (Searching tips and how engines and directories work)
Search The Internet (Resources and sources for researchers and students)
Site Advisor (Test sites for bad things before you load the page)
Spider's Apprentice (Guide to better web searching techniques)
Stay Safe Online (From National Cyber Security Alliance)
Tutorials (For better Web searching)
Tutorials (From University of South Carolina - Beaufort library)
Xippee (Focus your searches in any browser)

Search Engines & Directories

(From Amazon)
About.com (Amazing number of topics to pick from)
All the Web (Find it all on the web)
AltaVista
AndiLinks (Portal to many reference and search sites)
AOL Anywhere

Banana Slug (Comes up with creative findings)
Beaucoup!
Blackle (A search engine that saves the environment)
Blue Rope
Brain Boost (Answer engine)
BRB Publications (Some free public record searches)
ChaCha
Clusty (Clusters your search results)
Craigslist (Lists of just about everything in your neighborhood)
Crowd Found (Sites found by others listed in categories)
Cuil (Claims to be the largest database)
Ditto Picture search (Visual search engine)
(Search TV clips and more)
Dog Pile
Dreamcatcher (Directory to many categories)
Exalead (Search engine with Booliean searching)
Excite
Find Sounds (Search engine for audio files)
Galaxy
Go.com
GOeureka
(Help a charity with every search)
(Search engine)
Google Book Search (Download PDF books)
Google Desktop (Search your own computer)
Google Directory (Search directory)
Google Image Search (Search image files)
Google Language Tools (Translate entire web sites)
Google News Archive (Search 200 years of history)
Google Patent Search (Search for patents)
Google Scholar Search (Search for articles and references)
Google SMS (Get internet, phone, and directions from your cell phone)
Google Video (Search videos)
Google Web Search Features (Many types of searches)
HomePageSeek
HotBot
InfoProbe
ixquick (Search for phone numbers, price, or for pictures)
Jigsaw (Find business contacts)
Jux2 (Meta search many engines at once)
KartOO
Kevin Federline (Yep, he has his own search engine and is giving away prizes)
Kids Click (Search engine with kids in mind)
Kosmix (Search by category)
LookSmart
Lookups (Search over 30 databases, registration required)
Lycos
Lycos Picture and Audio Search
Mahalo (Results picked by actual humans)
Melissa Data (Search directory by category)
MSN
Mamma
Mamma Health (Search multiple health sites at once)
MetaCrawler
Ms. Dewey (With an avatar that makes comments and jokes about your searches)
National Center for Health Statistics (Public vital record databases)
Northern Light
(Largest comprehensive directory)
Overture
Patent Search (Search patents)
Patent Monkey (Search expired and active patents)
(Nice catalog of sites)
Prevy (Search using your choice of search engines)
Rollyo (Make up your own search engine directory)
Scandoo (Set your preferences and serf with confidence)
Search.com
Search 2 Go
Search Engines (GoTo.com, YaHoo, Excite, AltaVista, HotBot, etc.)
Search Engines Worldwide (Over 1400 search engines listed by country)
Search Mash (From Google in beta, but you wouldn't know it from looking)
Search Me (A visual way to search the web)
Search Port
Search Words (Search directory by category)
Seeqpod (Find music and music videos online)
Snap (Search engine that lets you preview sites)
Social Security Death Index (Find dead people)
Sputter (Search multiple search engines with a touch of a button)
Teoma (Search directory)
Twitter Search (Search for topics on Twitter)
Virtual Gumshoe (Search public records, some free others pay)
Vivisimo (Clusters results in a side bar, very neat)
Webaroo (Take the internet with you anywhere)
WebCrawler
Web's Biggest (Claims to be the world's biggest directory search engine)
WhoIs (Find the owner of websites)
Wikipedia (User contributed "facts", use at your own risk)(and its parody Wikiality)
Windows Live (From Microsoft)
Wisenut (Search directory)
(Search directory)
YaHoo (Search engine)
YaHoo Audio File Search (Search just for audio files)
YaHooligans (Yahoo directory for kids, safe and friendly)
You Get It (Just change the zip and search local places)
Zaba Search (Search public records)
Zoo (Browser just for kids)

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Job Search Engines

Indeed (Search by location or description)
Monster (National job postings)

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