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| I know a little about what I am looking for and can use a few key words to help search for more information |
| Google is a good site to begin with, since it is one of the largest indexes |
| Yahoo Search is another popular general search engine |
| MSN (Live Search) provides multiple types of searches |
| Quintura is a good discovery search engine with Quintura for Kids a choice for younger children. | |
| I know the exact phrase that I want to search for |
Use "double quotes" around the phrase with any of the above search engines |
| I need facts |
| Microsoft Encarta includes an online encyclopedia center, dictionary, atlas, and additional resources to answer your questions |
| Ask offers many innovative tools to help you get the information you need quickly and easily |
| Answers.com allows you to ask a question on about everything |
| Factbites is a cross between a search engine and an encyclopedia |
| Ref:erences browses the web's best references | |
| I need an overview of a subject. |
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| I need to narrow my search |
| Clusty combines search results by grouping similar results together into clusters |
| Ask results include a "Narrow Your Search" feature for most searches |
| Exalead provides choices on how to narrow your search by using related terms, site types, multimedia, etc. | |
| I like to see thumbnails of pages listed in my results |
| Ask uses binoculars to view thumbnails of result pages |
| Exalead shows a preview page for all results automatically |
| RedZee displays a trail of searched websites | |
| I want to do an all-inclusive (metasearch) across many search engines |
| Ixquick search results include a universal power search relying on Boolean logic, phrases, wildcards, and field searches |
| Pandia collects and sorts the hits, takes out duplicates, and presents the end result in a simple format. |
| Metacrawler searches the top search engines, including Google, Yahoo Search, MSN Search, Ask, and more |
| Trovando provides access and compares results from over 250 search engines across 10 categories | |
| I am not sure how to spell what I'm looking for |
| Exalead Advanced search allows you to search for approximate spelling or phonetic spelling |
| The Reverse Dictionary suggest words and phrases that match your searched concept |
| Dictionary.com suggest correct spellings | |
| I like to see a visual representation for my search results |
| Kartoo is a meta search engine which preents its results on a map |
| WebBrain lets you search the Web visually, so you can explore a dynamic picture of related information, instead of searching through long lists of text. |
| Quintura provides a cloud that you can navigate and easily refine in order to find relevant information faster and more easily |
| RedZee displays a trail of searched websites | |
| I am looking for different file formats |
| Google Advanced search looks for .pdf .ps .doc .xls .ppt .rtf |
| Yahoo Advanced search looks for .xml .pdf .xls .ppt .doc .txt | |
| I need to find information that is trustworthy |
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| I want to search websites that are usually inaccessbile to traditional search engines |
| Turbo10 searches over 800 search engines previously not indexed by traditional search engines |
| CompletePlanet is a comprehensive listing of documents that cannot be indexed by traditional search engines |
| OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources from 947 contributors | |
| I am looking for images |
| Google Images is one of the most comprehensive image search engines on the web. |
| Yahoo Search is anohter major image search engine | |
| I am looking for Weblogs |
| Technorati is the recognized authority on what's happening on the World Live Web |
| Google Blog helps find blogs on your favorite topics | |
| I need to find moving images |
| Yahoo! Video searches for AVI. MPEG, Quicktime, Real, Windows Media and Flash video |
| Google Video includes video from YouTube, Google Video, and other third-party sites |
| YouTube is the most well known of these services, recently bought by Google | |
| I need to find a topic |
| Clusty results include clusters that can be used to help identify topics |
| Google Directory inlcudes a subject tree that can assist with identifying topics | |
| I need to find related topics |
| Grokker reports results in both an outlne and map view that enable the searcher to locate related information |
| Clutsy groups search results into folder topics that help discover additional topics related to your original search | |
| I need help from experts |
| Ask A Librarian provides basic research assistance related to a variety of subject |
| All Experts offers volunteers to answer a broad area of questions via email for free | |
| I need primary sources |
| American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to a variety of resources in a many different formats that document the American experience. |
| Library and Archival features access to onlne exhibitions that have been created by libraries, archives, and historical societies, and well as to museum online exhibitions. | |