Searching The Internet

Google

Google - Most popular Internet search engine.

Alternative searches: Advanced search, Google web directory
For scholarly material try Google Scholar
For books/texts try Google Print

Help: Google Cheat Sheet : useful tips for searching within Google

Fazzle

Fazzle - Searches the web indexes and directories, news sources and the 120 speciality invisible web resources.

Alternative searches: Advanced search

Clusty

Clusty - A "clustering" search engine, by which it is meant that the results that are retrieved from a search are then grouped into further subcategories, so helping you refine the search and focus on exactly your topic.

Alternative searches: Advanced search available for selecting engines to search.

Complete Planet

Complete Planet - Over 70,000 databases and speciality search engines giving access to the "deep web" i.e. content in databases which traditional search engines cannot normally query.

Alternative searches: Top sites

Yahoo

Yahoo! - A hierarchical directory where an attempt has been made to categorize and organize information in some logical fashion.

Alternative searches: Advanced search, Yahoo! Directory

Turbo10

Turbo10 - The Turbo10 Trawler™ searches the Deep Net by connecting to a multitude of specialist databases in all topic categories and languages.

SortFix

SortFix - Use with Google, Yahoo or DMOZ for more precise searching.

SortFix suggests Power Words that can be added or removed from your original search in order to make your results more relevant.

Ask Jeeves

Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves) - Ask.com allows users to enter questions in plain English. However, the answer is based on your question and how Ask.com interprets it, and this may not be the most effective way to search for a topic.

Galaxy

Galaxy - Information compiled and organized by human Information Specialists rather than by computer.

Alternative searches: Advanced search

Ask An Expert

Ask an Expert - Askanexpert.com connects you with hundreds of real life experts who have volunteered to answer your questions for free.

AltaVista

Alta Vista

Alternative searches: Advanced search, Image search