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| I know a little about what I am looking for and can use a few key words to help search for more information |
| Google is a good site to begin with, since it is one of the largest indexes |
| Yahoo Search is another popular general search engine |
| Bing provides multiple types of searches |
| Quintura is a good discovery search engine with Quintura for Kids a choice for younger children. | |
| I want to search for information based on readability level. |
Twurdy uses custom designed readability software that includes information about the number of words on the page, the average number of syllables in each word, the average sentence length and more to determine a page readability level. |
| I know the exact phrase that I want to search for |
Use "double quotes" around the phrase with any of the above search engines |
| I need facts |
| Microsoft Encarta includes an online encyclopedia center, dictionary, atlas, and additional resources to answer your questions |
| Ask offers many innovative tools to help you get the information you need quickly and easily |
| Answers.com allows you to ask a question on about everything |
| Factbites is a cross between a search engine and an encyclopedia |
| Ref:erences browses the web's best references | |
| I need an overview of a subject. |
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| I need to narrow my search |
| Clusty combines search results by grouping similar results together into clusters |
| Ask results include a "Narrow Your Search" feature for most searches |
| Exalead provides choices on how to narrow your search by using related terms, site types, multimedia, etc. | |
| I like to see thumbnails of pages listed in my results |
| Ask uses binoculars to view thumbnails of result pages |
| Exalead shows a preview page for all results automatically |
| RedZee displays a trail of searched websites | |
| I want to do an all-inclusive (metasearch) across many search engines |
| Ixquick search results include a universal power search relying on Boolean logic, phrases, wildcards, and field searches |
| Pandia collects and sorts the hits, takes out duplicates, and presents the end result in a simple format. |
| Metacrawler searches the top search engines, including Google, Yahoo Search, MSN Search, Ask, and more |
| Trovando provides access and compares results from over 250 search engines across 10 categories |
| Mamma is a "smart metasearch engine which is like using multiple search engines, all at the same time. |
| SearchBoth provides a way to compare two different searchs from among a variety of search engines. | |
| I am not sure how to spell what I'm looking for |
| Exalead Advanced search allows you to search for approximate spelling or phonetic spelling |
| The Reverse Dictionary suggest words and phrases that match your searched concept |
| Dictionary.com suggest correct spellings | |
| I like to see a visual representation for my search results |
| Kartoo is a meta search engine which preents its results on a map |
| WebBrain lets you search the Web visually, so you can explore a dynamic picture of related information, instead of searching through long lists of text. |
| Quintura provides a cloud that you can navigate and easily refine in order to find relevant information faster and more easily |
| RedZee displays a trail of searched websites | |
| I am looking for different file formats |
| Google Advanced search looks for .pdf .ps .doc .xls .ppt .rtf |
| Yahoo Advanced search looks for .xml .pdf .xls .ppt .doc .txt | |
| I need to find information that is trustworthy |
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| I want to search websites that are usually inaccessbile to traditional search engines |
| Turbo10 searches over 800 search engines previously not indexed by traditional search engines |
| CompletePlanet is a comprehensive listing of documents that cannot be indexed by traditional search engines |
| OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources from 947 contributors | |
| I am looking for images |
| Google Images is one of the most comprehensive image search engines on the web. |
| Yahoo Search is anohter major image search engine |
| behold searches Flickr images based on your input | |
| I am looking for Weblogs |
| Technorati is the recognized authority on what's happening on the World Live Web |
| Google Blog helps find blogs on your favorite topics | |
| I need to find moving images |
| Yahoo! Video searches for AVI. MPEG, Quicktime, Real, Windows Media and Flash video |
| Google Video includes video from YouTube, Google Video, and other third-party sites |
| YouTube is the most well known of these services, recently bought by Google | |
| I need to find a topic |
| Clusty results include clusters that can be used to help identify topics |
| Google Directory inlcudes a subject tree that can assist with identifying topics | |
| I need to find related topics |
| Grokker reports results in both an outlne and map view that enable the searcher to locate related information |
| Clutsy groups search results into folder topics that help discover additional topics related to your original search | |
| I need help from experts |
| Ask A Librarian provides basic research assistance related to a variety of subject |
| All Experts offers volunteers to answer a broad area of questions via email for free | |
| I need primary sources |
| American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to a variety of resources in a many different formats that document the American experience. |
| Library and Archival features access to onlne exhibitions that have been created by libraries, archives, and historical societies, and well as to museum online exhibitions. | |
| I need definitions |
Def-i-ni-tions allow you to browse thousands of dictionary definitions. |