Search Engines
- Search Engines for Kids and Their Parents
- Metasearch Engines (searches multiple search engines)
- Image Search Engines
- Librarian Internet Subject Guides
- Information about Searching
Search Engines - Any of the following search engines is great place to start when searching the Internet.
Popular search engine with librarians and everyone.
AltaVista
Site also includes search tools for images, videos, and MP3/audio. Provides easy language translation service.
Yahoo!
One of the first subject directories of the Web. Also provides quick access to telephone lookups, maps, and stock quotes. Good place for setting up a free email account.
Deja News/Google Groups
Searches the archives of UseNet.
Searching the Net (for Kids and Their Parents)
Ask.Com for Kids
Enter a question and get a list of websites that will answer it.
KidsClick!
Web search for kids created by librarians.
Yahoo! a fun web guide designed just for kids!
LycosZone
A great search engine for homework help and a fun place to play games!
Zoo.com
Kid friendly search engine. Prevents access to over 50,000 adult words and phrases.
Find Spot
Teaches how each search engine and directory works.
Metasearch Engines - Provides quick access to several sources at once, allowing you to possibly find something that one search engine has, but another doesn't.
Vivisimo
Metasearch engine that groups results by similar topics.
Ask.Com for Kids
Accepts questions rather than keywords, and returns the results in the form of question-statements that may match what you're looking for. Also searches six other search engines, and lists the results in short drop-down lists.
Dogpile
Sends your inquiry to 13 of the major search engines, and returns them sorted by search engine. Also searches business, news, and weather sites simultaneously.
Ixquick
Searches 14 engines and ranks the results by relevancy. Will eliminate duplicates.
Metacrawler
Combines results from other search engines including Alta Vista, Excite, and Lycos.
Ithaki for Kids
A kids metasearch engine finds results in some of the best kids search engines simultaneously.
Librarian Internet Subject Guides
Oshkosh Public Library's Subject Guide to Websites recommended by Oshkosh Public Library librarians by subject.
Internet Public Library
Recommended websites by subject created by the School of Information - University of Michigan.
LibrarySpot
A library reference center - provides quick access to hundreds of online references sources by subject. This site is part of the StartSpot Network, and is not affiliated with any specific library.
Search Engine Watch
Provides comparisons, reviews, statistics, and links to other articles covering the many options available for searching the Internet.