Internet Search Tools

• 100 Useful Tips and Tools to Research the Deep Web
  From the Online College Blog
  
• A9
  Search blogs, wikipedia, movies, images with results in columns.
• Anywho: Internet Directory Assistance
  Find people, businesses, etc.
• Archives of Dead Web Pages
  
• Boolify
  Uses interlocking puzzle pieces to demonstrate the use of Boolean operators.
• CompletePlanet: the Deep Web Directory
  
• Creative Commons: for Happier Image Searching
  Blog post by Joyce Valenza with suggested creative commons sites to search for copyright-friendly images.
• Dewey Browse
  Websites organized according to the Dewey Decimal system.
• Digital Librarian
  
• Exalead
  Includes website thumbnails.
• FindArticles
  Find free magazine articles.
• Google: More, more, more
  
• Google Web Search: Classroom Lessons and Resources
• GoogleWebSearchEducation
  Lessons, tips, webinars etc. from Google.
  
• Infopeople Best Search Tools Chart
  Compares different search engines
• ipl2: Information You Can Trust
  Sites selected by librarians. In January 2010, the Internet Public Library (IPL) and Librarians' Internet Index (LII) merged and created ipl2.
  
• iTools
  A plethora of resources: search engines, web directories, map tools, people, search, language tools, research tools.
• Ixquick Metasearch
  Search for websites, pictures, news and MP3s. Pulls sites with the top relevance rankings from multiple search engines. Click on the X to remove results about a topic. Click on the checkmark to see more results on the topic.
• Kartoo
  Displays search results in a visual web format.
• KidsClick
  
• KillerInfo
  Horizontal search clustering.
• Liveplasma
  Music and movies. See a map of similar artists/bands or movies.
• MagPortal
  Find free magazine articles
• Noodlequest: Search Strategies Wizard
  Check boxes on a simple form for help finding the best search engine to use for your project.
• Noodletools: Choose the Best Search Engine
• Search Engine Watch: Tips About Internet Searching
• Topmarks Educational Search Engine
• Using the Free Web to Build Reference Collections
  Built by Tina Hovecamp of the Central Oregon Community College Library for an OEMA half-day session in 2005.
• Vivisimo
• WebPlaces.com
• WiseNut
  
• Yahoo News
  News broken into different categories. Can search news and blogs.

Last updated: January 12, 2010