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The Invisible Web Dir

is a companion to the report "The Invisible Web: Finding Hidden Resources Search Engines by Chris Sherman and Gary Price. At this site one will find more than 1,000 links to resources which may not be located by using any of the standard search engines. There is a subject tree approach to searching. Very each to use for any level of experience and many useful reports and sources are provided.
AltaVista
AllTheWeb Simple and functional and does good searches.
- metasearch; ask question in plain English
Beaucoup! - index to search engines & directories
Big Hub - metasearch
Colossus - international metasearch - great for language or cultural information
Deja.com - focus your search through various "channels" (travel, money, computing, politics & media, etc.)

Direct Search - search interfaces to resources not easily accessible from general search tools (Gary Price)
Dogpile.com - metasearch
EduHound - curriculum categories
EuroSeek - European languages

FastSearch - fast & comprehensive; aka AllTheWeb
Fossick - detailed searches within specialized fields

fast & comprehensive
GovSearch - fed. govt. information
  Infomine - multiple database search of scholarly resources
Invisible Web - searches databases, archives and search engines
Ixquick - metasearch: comprehensive, helpful rating system
Lightspan - grade level searches, sites selected for educational content
 Good speed over Yahoo &  advanced search features.
Mamma  
MetaCrawler - metasearch
MetaEureka - fast, comprehensive
Metor Search - powerful metasearch tool; uses search engines and databases
 Known as the researcher's favorite & good advanced search features. 
Oingo - sorts results into categories
SciSeek - science search engine
SearchEdu - reference quality university & education pages
SearchEngines.com - portal for search engines
Teoma - relevancy search, results grouped by topic, links to related subjects

 Multimedia Search Engines
All Things Photo - images, articles and reviews
Alta Vista Media Finder
Amazing Picture Machine - graphics
Clip Art Review - clip art & audio search tool
Ditto - graphics
FastSearch Multimedia - select all media, images, video, or audio
FindSounds.com
GoGraph - graphics
Google Image Search
HotBot -media search options
Lycos Multimedia - search by media type
WebSeek - image & video search
Yahoo Image Surfer

Article Search Engines
EServer - text, hypertext, audio, video documents (topics such as contemporary art, race, 18th century literary criticism, internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, gender studies, political & social issues)
FindArticles - magazine articles 
MagPortal - online publications
Pandia - news articles
Pilot-Search - "literary" searches

Curious about search engines???
Alta Vista Tutorial 
Research Wire - search engine comparison
Search Engine Showdown
Search Engine Watch- news, tips about search engines
Spider's Apprentice - helpful guide to understanding search engines
 

 

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