Also Try Specialized Search Engines (Awesome Library) Provides search engines, by topic. 6-99 Lists AOL NetFind About.com Provides a subject directory, the site's strongest contribution. Also provides an alphabetical index of topics and a search engine. (Formerly called the Miningco.com). 2-01 Ask Jeeves Ask a short question in your own words and Jeeves will quickly look for an Internet answer. CAG Enterprises Provides search boxes for the most popular search engines and some specialized search engines, such as in education. Copernic 2000 Provides free software for searches of multiple search engines simultaneously. Direct Hit Provides 10 relevant sites and links to categories for finding more relevant sites. 6-99 FAST Provides a search engine with one of the largest databases. 12-99 Free.com Provides a comprehensive listing of search engines. 12-99 Google Provides results by popularity and number of links to the site. Also provides a cached version of each page, in case the server is down at the time. Highway 61(The Virtual Mirror) Searches Yahoo, Alta Vista, WebCrawler, Excite and Infoseek libraries of resources. Inference Search Engine Search for resources by several search engines at once, with duplicates removed. Displays results by type of site, such as commercial or nonprofit. InstantSeek.com Provides a search engine and a directory. Search engine is composed of over 1,000,000 entries that have been reviewed, according to the authors. 3-00 InvisibleWeb.com Provides over 2 million links, reviewed and annotated by volunteers. 8-00 Lacombe Index of Search Engines Learning@Web.Sites - Indexes & Host Search Engines (Levin) Lorenc Go and Find provides almost 100 search engines. Magellan Search Engine Netscape Search Engine Open Directory Provides over 2 million links in over 200,000 categories. Rated as the best directory on the Web by PC World magazine (September 2000). 8-00 Patents Search (United States Patent and Trademark Office) Provides "full text of all US patents issued since January 1, 1976, and full-page images of each page of every US patent issued since 1790." Pictures Search (North Central Regional Educational Laboratory) Provides a search engine for child-safe pictures. 1-02 Profusion Search up to three search engines at once, with duplicate findings removed. Search using the fastest engines or the most accurate engines or a combination of both. Sherlockhound Provides searches from a choice of search engines, all at the same time. 5-00   Submitwolf Provides over two dozen databases. UK Search Engine (Mirago) Provides a family friendly search engine for the regions of the UK or the entire UK. 11-01 Unified Universal Search Engines and Tools Gateway WebCrawler Search Engine WebPlaces.com Provides over 100 search engines by general type. 7-00 Papers Advanced Search Tips (Smith) Provides assistance with advanced searches using seven different Web libraries or "search engines." Children's Search Engines (Ivy's Kid Search) Provides search engines that have child-safe resources. 5-02 How Search Engines Are Used (Pew Charitable Trusts) Reports Patterns of Use of Search Engines. 7-02 Invisible Web (About.com - Sherman) Provides a listing of sources of databases that do not show up well on search engines but may have very well selected content.. 3-01 Search Engine Design (Macmillan Publishers - Nature) Provides a discussion on the next steps in the development of search engines, with an emphasis on the Google search engine. 5-00 Search Engine Features (Search Engine Watch - Sullivan) Provides descriptions of how each major search engine operates. Search Engine Rating Systems (Search Engine Watch - Sullivan) Provides descriptions of how each major search engine rates sites. SurfSafely.com - Family Safe Searches (SurSafely.com) Provides resources that have been rated for child safety. 10-01

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