Internet Search Engines LRC@TCC

For scholarly sources, think about adding site:.gov or site:.edu to your search.

Google Scholar for scholarly literature. Set your preferences and LincIt into TCC databases.

Web News Images Shopping Wikipedia Blogs Jobs

Clusty groups similar results together into clusters, instead of delivering millions of search results in one long list, . Clusters help you see your search results by topic so you can zero in on exactly what you’re looking for or discover unexpected relationships between items.

Dogpile returns all the best results from leading search engines including Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Ask, so you find what you’re looking for faster. Dogpile looks at all results, decides which are most relevant to your search, eliminates duplicates and reveals them to you.

Best Information on the Net an alphabetical list of topics, chosen by librarians!

Environment Directory is the largest exclusively environmental organization directory on the Web and includes sites from over 100 countries

Infomine Scholarly Internet resource collections.

Internet Public Library University of Michigan School of Information

Librarians' Index to the Internet by the University of California at Berkeley.

Scout Report Archives critical annotations of carefully selected Internet sites

WorldCat (use advanced search to limit to Internet source and NOT netlibrary)

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Search Engine Math shows how to use +,-,"" to quickly improve your searches.

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Want to learn more about search engines?

Our subject guide, Searching the Internet, provides information for beginners on how to search, what to search, and how to evaluate what you find.

Searchenginewatch.com with a listing of specialty search engines is a one stop shop for search engine reviews, news, changes, statistics, etc.

SearchEngineShowdown the users' guide to Web searching, compares and evaluates Internet search engines from the searcher's perspective.

What is the Invisible Web? Search what you probably haven't searche before. Access databases not found by other search engines, you can read more about the invisible web.