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Search Engines

Choose the Best Search Engine -
Before you begin your search take a moment and pick the search engine that will work best for what you need to find.


Search Engines in alphabetical order Image Searches

 

These may be blocked at school
AltaVista
Alta Vista is one of the most powerful Internet searchers available. Includes many special options and features.

Ask.com 
Ask searches through other search engines and comes up with answers to your questions. Allows you to easily modify your search.

Excite Web Searcher  
Generally a fast and easy to use Web searcher.

Google
An efficient search engine that is also quite fast! Advertising is minimal or absent. A favorite of many librarians.

HotBot  Search Engine and Web Directory
Uses fast, parallel search technology. Searches the full text of its entire Internet collection. Be sure to review the "Help" file for better use.

IxQuick    
Fast! Comprehensive results (searches 12 engines simultaneously).

Lycos   
Has a reputation for its large, extensive coverage of the Web.

Mamma
The "Mother of all search engines." One option allows you to search through newspapers.

MetaCrawler/GoTo
Searches a number of search engines, organizes the results, and displays those that it feels are the most useful.


AllTheWeb

Images, video and audio files are available here. 

AltaVista Image Finder
This searcher offers access to a large collection of photos and graphics.

American Memory Photos/Images and 
American Memory Films/Motion Pictures
Displays various collections that may be downloaded and used in presentations.

Ditto.Com 
A powerful search engine for locating images and graphics. 

Google Image Searcher
Special area of Google that just searches for images and graphics.

Image Search
From this page you can search several different major Web image sources.

Lycos Image Gallery
Search this image, music, movie trailer and sound collection by keyword.

Lycos Multimedia
Images, video and audio files are available here. Family friendly filters are built-in!

Picsearch
A search engine especially designed to find pictures and images.

Search.com     
A well-organized collection of search engines, with general and specialized searching capabilities. Fun to use!

SearchEdu.Com
This search engine specializes in searching education websites. It also has links to its other specialized searchers focused on books, government and military sites.

WebCrawler    
One of the earliest Internet "search engines", WebCrawler is fast, unless busy....

Yahoo!   
A directory of places on the World Wide Web, organized according to subject, and searchable by key word.

This site created and maintained by S. Rahn.