Cyward Internet Education
Search Engines & Specialized Directories
compiled by Nancy Picchi, Internet Consultant                          Updated October 5, 2007

Fast Information
Major Search Engines
Metasearch Engines
Minor Search Engines
Search Engine Roundup Sites
Search Engines for Children
Specialized Directories

Fast Information
Google Reference: http://www.google.com/Top/Reference/
Infoplease: www.infoplease.com
My Virtual Reference Desk: www.refdesk.com
Search.Langenberg.com: www.langenberg.com
Ready Reference (Internet Public Library): http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/ref00.00.00
Yahoo Reference: http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/

Specialized Directories & Search Englines (in alphabetical order)
Altavista Babelfish Translation: http://babelfish.altavista.com/
American Journalism Review (Index of News sites): www.newslink.org/news.html
Answers Yahoo: http://answers.yahoo.com
Bartleby.com Reference: http://www.bartleby.com/reference/
Catalist: The Official Catalog of Listservs: www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html
Dictionary.com : www.dictionary.com
Encyclopedia Mythica: http://www.pantheon.org/
Find Articles: www.findarticles.com
Federal Citizen Information Center: www.pueblo.gsa.gov
FirstGov: http://www.firstgov.gov/
Gigablast Search: http://gigablast.com/
Gigablast Web Directory: http://dir.gigablast.com/
Google Blog Search: http://blogsearch.google.com/
Google Book Search: http://books.google.com/
Google Directory: http://www.google.com/dirhp
Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/
Google Image Search: www.images.google.com
Google Language & Translation Tools: http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
Google News Search: http://news.google.com/
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/
Healthfinder: http://www.healthfinder.gov/
Infomine: Visual & Performing Arts Index:
http://lib-www.ucr.edu/vpainfo.html
Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/index.php
Internet Archive for Audio: http://www.archive.org/details/audio
Internet Archive for Moving Images: http://www.archive.org/details/movies
Internet Archive Wayback Machine: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
Internet Movie Database: http://us.imdb.com/
Internet Public Library: www.ipl.org
Internet Public Library Subject Collections: http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/
Librarians’ Index to the Internet: http://lii.org/
Library of Congress Catalogs: http://catalog.loc.gov/
Library of Congress' Minerva Internet Archives: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/minerva/html/minerva-home.html
Libraryspot: www.libraryspot.com
Library Servers Via WWW: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb
My Virtual Reference Desk: www.refdesk.com
National Geographic Maps: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/
New York Times Movie Reviews: http://movies.nytimes.com/ref/movies/reviews/
Online Books Page: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
Open Directory: http://dmoz.org/
Project Gutenberg: http://promo.net/pg/
Roots Web Message Boards: http://boards.ancestry.com/
Scirus Science Search: http://www.scirus.com/
Translation: Altavista Babelfish: http://babelfish.altavista.com/
WWW Virtual Library: http://vlib.org/
Yahoo Answers: http://answers.yahoo.com/
Yahoo Directories: http://dir.yahoo.com/
Yahoo Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/
Yahoo Maps: http://maps.yahoo.com/

Major Search Engines
AOL Search : http://search.aol.com/
Altavista: www.altavista.com
Ask.com: www.ask.com
Exalead One Websearch: http://www.exalead.com/search
Google: www.google.com
Open Directory: http://dmoz.org/
Windows Live Search (formerly MSN Search): http://www.live.com/
Yahoo: www.yahoo.com

Minor Search Engines
About.com: www.about.com
Founded in 1996 and originally named The Mining Company, About.com offers a searchable network of specialized sites created by over 500 Guides, who are experts in their chosen areas. About.com is now owned by the New York Times Company.
AlltheWeb: http://www.alltheweb.com/ (now powered by Yahoo!)
Exalead One Websearch: http://www.exalead.com/search
Excite: www.excite.com
Gigablast: http://gigablast.com/
Go.com: http://infoseek.go.com/  (formerly Infoseek, now powered by Yahoo! Search)
Lycos: www.lycos.com (now powered by Ask)

MetaSearch Engines
Clusty.com: http://clusty.com/ (Owned by Vivismo)
Dogpile: www.dogpile.com
FindIt!: www.iTools.com
Hotsheet: www.hotsheet.com
Ixquick: www.ixquick.com
Kartoo: www.kartoo.com
Mamma: www.mamma.com
Metacrawler: www.metacrawler.com
QueryServer for Web: http://www.queryserver.com/web.htm
QueryServer for News: http://www.queryserver.com/news.htm
QueryServer for Health: http://www.queryserver.com/health.htm
QueryServer for Government: http://www.queryserver.com/government.htm
Webcrawler: http://www.webcrawler.com

Search Directories (subject-oriented categories)
Google Directory: http://www.google.com/dirhp
Open Directory: http://dmoz.org/
Yahoo Directories: http://dir.yahoo.com/

Search Engine Roundup Sites
Langenberg.com Search Page: www.langenberg.com
Looking for a site that provides a directory of specialized search engines? Then, look no further: Link to www.langenberg.com, where you'll discover over 20 subject areas ranging from Area Codes to Zip Codes, but also emcompassing Cooking, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Government, Maps, and more!
iTools: http://www.itools.com/ (formerly Research-It)

Search Engines for Children
Ask for Kids: http://www.askforkids.com/
Yahoo! Kids (formerly Yahooligans): http://kids.yahoo.com/

Specialized Search Engines
Audio & Music
Altavista Audio Search: http://www.altavista.com/audio/default
Internet Archive for Audio: http://www.archive.org/details/audio
Yahoo Movies: http://movies.yahoo.com/

Addresses, Email & Telephone Numbers
Infospace: http://www.infospace.com/
Superpages: http://www.superpages.com/
Switchboard: http://www.switchboard.com/
Yahoo People Search: http://email.people.yahoo.com/
Yellow Pages: http://www.yellowpages.com/
Zoom Info: http://www.zoominfo.com/

Business & Industry
CEO Express: http://www.ceo-express.com/default.asp
Looking for a one-page list of some of the best news and business information links on the Web? Look no further - you've found it here at CEO Express, which places a world of information at your fingertips.
Corporate Information: www.corporateinformation.com
The good news is that this site no longer requires registration. But, the bad news is that full company reports are no longer available without a paid subscription. Free Snapshot Reports are, as the name implies, available for free. Now owned by Wright Investors' Service, corporateinformation.com was begun in 1996 by George Regnery.
Edgar - SEC Filings & Forms: http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
Google Finance: http://finance.google.com/finance
Hoovers Online: http://www.hoovers.com
Hoovers Online provides free company "snapshots" on over 43,000 public, non-public, US, and non-US companies.   Also, more in-depth reports are available for an annual---or monthly---fee. Many public libraries provide free access to Hoover's paid subscription database to their patrons.
Wall Street Journal's Research & Tools Section: http://online.wsj.com/public/page/0_0800.html?mod=topnav_0_0012
Yahoo Finance: http://finance.yahoo.com/
Yahoo Finance Help & Directory: http://help.yahoo.com/help/fin/

Dictionaries
Dictionary.com : www.dictionary.com
The Free Dictionary: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

Electronic Books - Books Online - Copyright Free
Bartleby Books Online: http://www.bartleby.com/
Bibliomania.com: http://www.bibliomania.com
Electronic Text Center: http://etext.virginia.edu/
Google Book Search: http://books.google.com/
Knowledgerush Book Directory: http://knowledgerush.com/kr/jsp/db/directory.jsp
Online Books Page: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
Online Medieval & Classical Library: http://omacl.org/
Page by Page Books: http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/
Project Gutenberg: http://promo.net/pg/
The English Server: http://eserver.org/
The Free Library: http://thefreelibrary.com/

Encyclopedias
Encarta Encyclopedia (from MSN): http://encarta.msn.com/
Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/
Now owned by Highbeam, Encyclopedia.com trawls over 57,000 updated articles/items from the Columbia Encyclopedia's Sixth Edition.
Encyclopedia Britannica : http://www.britannica.com/
Encyclopedia Mythica: http://www.pantheon.org/
Encyclopedia Smithsonian: http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/start.htm
Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Films - Movies
Internet Archive for Moving Images: http://www.archive.org/details/movies
Internet Movie Database: http://us.imdb.com/
Movies Yahoo: http://movies.yahoo.com/
New York Times Movie Reviews: http://movies.nytimes.com/ref/movies/reviews/

Forums & Groups
Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/
Roots Web Message Boards: http://boards.ancestry.com/
Yahoo Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/

Genealogy
Census Finder: http://www.censusfinder.com/
Cyndi's List: http://www.cyndislist.com/
Ellis Island Arrivals: http://ellisislandrecords.org/
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild: http://immigrantships.net/
National Archives for Genealogists: http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/
Roots Web: http://www.rootsweb.com/
Roots Web Message Boards: http://boards.ancestry.com/
USGen Web Project: http://www.usgenweb.com/

Government
Federal Consumer Information Center: www.pueblo.gsa.gov
FirstGov: http://www.firstgov.gov/
Launched in September 2000, Firstgov.gov bills itself as "the official U.S. gateway to all government information."
FirstGov en Español: http://www.firstgov.gov/Espanol/index.shtml
Internal Revenue Service: http://www.irs.gov/
Library of Congress Catalogs: http://catalog.loc.gov/
U.S. House of Representatives: http://www.house.gov/
U.S. Senate: http://www.senate.gov/
U.S. Supreme Court: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/

Health & Medicine
Healthfinder: http://www.healthfinder.gov/
Mayo Clinic: http://www.mayoclinic.com
PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/

Image (Photographs & Graphics)
AltaVista Image Search: http://www.altavista.com/image/default
Ditto Visual Search Engine: http://ditto.com/
Google Image Search: www.images.google.com
Landscape-Architecture Image Resource: http://www.lair.umd.edu/default.htm
Moving Images Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/movies

International News & History
All Africa: http://allafrica.com/
Ananzi, the South African Search Page: www.ananzi.co.za
BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/
Council on World Affairs: http://www.cfr.org/
Euroseek: www.euroseek.com
Russia on the Net: www.ru

Language Translations
Altavista Babelfish Translation: http://babelfish.altavista.com/
Google Language & Translation Tools: http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en

Library Information, Library Science & Online Libraries
Internet Public Library: www.ipl.org
Librarians’ Index to the Internet: http://lii.org/
Library of Congress Catalogs: http://catalog.loc.gov/
Libraryspot: www.libraryspot.com
LibWeb: http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb/
LibWeb provides a searchable database to over 7500 pages from libraries in over 135 countries.
LISwiki: http://liswiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

Magazines & Journals
Find Articles: www.findarticles.com
A service of LookSmart, Findarticles.com provides a free, searchable database of over 10 million articles from more than 900 magazines and journals. Don't forget to view the list of searchable publications.
Library of Congress' List of News & Periodical Resources on the Web:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/lists.html
Making of America Magazine Archives - Cornell University: http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/index.html
Making of America Magazine Archives - University of Michigan: http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
Newspaper Archive: http://newspaperarchive.com
The Internet Library of Early Journals: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/

Maps & Directions
Ask Maps: http://www.ask.com/#subject:map|pg:1
Google Earth: http://earth.google.com/
Google Maps: http://www.google.com/maphp?hl=en&tab=wl&q=
Mapquest: http://www.mapquest.com/
National Geographic Maps: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/
Rand McNally: http://www.randmcnally.com/
Yahoo Maps: http://maps.yahoo.com/

News
AltaVista News: http://news.altavista.com/
American Journalism Review (Index of News sites): www.newslink.org/news.html
Ask News: http://news.ask.com/news?qsrc=&o=0&l=dir
Associated Press: http://customwire.ap.org/specials/bluepage.html#pa
BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/
Find Articles: www.findarticles.com
Google News: http://news.google.com/
Google News searches over 4,000 "continuously updated news sources."
Hometown News: http://www.hometownnews.com/
The Hometown News site provides a state-by-state listing of over 2,600 daily and weekly newspaper sites.
Lycos News: http://news.lycos.com/
QueryServer for News: http://www.queryserver.com/news.htm

Science & Technology
Catalist: The Official Catalog of Listservs: www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html
CNET: www.cnet.com
Search Jupiter Media Online : http://search.internet.com/
Scirus Science Search: http://www.scirus.com/

Sports
Librarians' Index to the Internet - Sports: http://www.lii.org/pub/topic/sports
Open Directory - Sports: http://dmoz.org/Sports/
Yahoo Sports Directory: http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Sports/

Usenet
Google Groups (previously Dejanews): http://groups.google.com/
Read/search the Internet's message boards. The search engine Google recently purchased the Usenet's archives. To learn more about Usenet and how to use it, link here.

Weather
Ask Weather: http://sp.ask.com/docs/about/site_features.shtml#weather
Weather Channel: http://www.weather.com/

Web Archives
Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/index.php
Internet Archive Wayback Machine: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
Library of Congress' Minerva Internet Archives: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/minerva/html/minerva-home.html

Web Search Information & Updates
Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial - From UC Berkeley Library:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators: http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/index.htmSearch Engine Showdown: http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/
Search Engine Watch: www.searchenginewatch.com
Search Engine Sizes: http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/sizes.html (outdated info)
Search Engine Land: http://www.searchengineland.com (Danny Sullivan's new site.)

Websearch on About.com: http://websearch.about.com
Bookmark this site and plan to visit it weekly to benefit from the very latest news on search engines that editor Wendy Boswell provides.

Please Note:  This list and commentary has been compiled by Nancy Picchi, Internet Consultant.  The commentary is copyright, Nancy Picchi, 1995-2007.

© Copyright, Nancy Picchi 1995-2007

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Last Updated: October 5, 2007