SEARCH INDEXES

Links selected by computer programs

Fast search, large index, smart results. News and image searches.

Enormous index, searches in 26 languages for websites, images, audio, video and news.

Get relevant pages, refine results (suggestions to narrow,) and link to additional resources collected by experts and enthusiasts.

Results include multimedia, news and PDF.

Provides easy access to the web's three major crawler-based search engines: Yahoo, Google and Teoma.

Compared to Google, Yahoo or even Teoma, Gigablast has a tiny index of the web. However, the service is constantly gaining new and interesting features. Give it a whirl, if you want to try something experimental yet dependable.

SEARCH DIRECTORIES

Collections of links selected by humans

and organized by subject.

OPEN DIRECTORY

Lots of subject categories, created by volunteers.

Links to the major subject gateways on the Internet.

Cybersleuth Internet search guide for K-12 students.

Internet Public Library pathfinders, guides intended to help you get started doing research on a particular topic, both online and at your local library.

Select information sites on the Internet, some organized by "hot paper topics." Very useful.

Annotated collections of links gathered by teachers.

Subject guides, news links and featured sections just for high school students.

LookSmart is primarily a human-compiled directory of web sites. The real gem at LookSmart can be found via its Articles tab. That provides access to content from thousands of periodicals.

META-SEARCH TOOLS

Search across several search engines at once.

Powerful meta-search engine, can search in 14 different languages.

Extremely helpful...clusters the results of your search by sub-topic.

Accesses more than 500 search engines grouped in channels.

Searches against major engines or provides those who open free accounts the ability to chose from a list of hundreds. Using the "SiteSnaps" feature, you can preview any page in the results and see where your terms appear in the document. Allows results or documents to be saved for future use.

If you like the idea of seeing your web results visually, this meta search site shows the results with sites being interconnected by keywords.

Founded in 1996, Mamma.com is one of the oldest meta search engines on the web. Mamma searches against a variety of major crawlers, directories and specialty search sites.