Search+Engines

[|Academic Index.net] is a scholarly academic search engine accessing only websites previously selected by librarians, teachers, and library and educational consortia.

[|AllSafeSites] is a kid-friendly directory & search engine for fun, educational and most importantly, SAFE websites. Each site in our directory has been personally reviewed and recommended by an elementary school teacher.

[|BASE], operated by Bielefeld University Library, is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic open access web resources.

[|Beaucoup!]2000+ search engines, indices and directories.

[|Behold] is a search engine for high-quality Flickr images. It aims to answer your queries based on what is inside the images -- at the pixel level. It offers a completely new way to search for images, using techniques of computer vision.

[|DuckDuckGo] is a general purpose search engine that is intended to be your starting place when searching the Internet. Use it to get way more instant answers, way less spam and real privacy.

[|Encontrando Dulcinea] is the Spanish language version of finding Dulcinea.

[|findingDulcinea] contains three distinct types of content: Web Guides contain meticulous research and insightful annotations on hundreds of topics, from the very general to the most granular, Beyond The Headlines provides context to news stories with a range of annotated links including historical, academic and local perspectives, and Netcetera showcases the wit and personality of the Web, featuring content on innovative people, diverse places and bold ideas.

[|FindTheData] An objective, reference-based comparison engine that allows you to find and sort through a growing number of databases that are fully sortable, filterable and comparable. FindTheData presents its data in side-by-side comparison databases—allowing for the apples-to-apples comparison of listings free of any hidden advertising.

[|FindThatFile] was founded in late 2009 and has since grown to become the most extensive file search on the Internet. Common searches are for PDFs, Documents, Excel, Powerpoint, Audio, Video, RAR and ZIP compressed files, Fonts, and much much more.

[|Infotopia]An academic search engine accessing only trusted websites previously selected by librarians, teachers and library and educational consortia.

[|Kngine] is Web 3.0 Search Engine (i.e. revolutionary Semantic Search Engine and Question Answer Engine) which is designed to provide customized meaningful search results, such as: Semantic Information about the keyword/concepts, Answers the user’s questions, List things, Discover the relations between the keywords/concepts, and links the different kind of related information together such as: Movies, Subtitles, Photos, Prices at sale stores, Users reviews, and Influenced stories.

[|Microsoft Academic Search](MAS) is a free academic search engine developed by Microsoft Research.

[|Open Directory Project] The largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web.

[|Radio-Locator.com], the most comprehensive radio station search engine on the internet with links to over 13,000 radio stations' web pages and over 7300 stations' audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Similarsitesearch]This site helps you find similar, related, or alternative websites

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|SitesLike]A free service that allows you to find, tag, rate and share websites that are similar to each other. The websites listed on SitesLike are constantly monitored so the content is always fresh and up to date.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Sweet Search] a Search Engine for Students. It searches only the 35,000 Web sites that our staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved, to easily find primary sources and the best content on the Web for current events, history, language arts, science and culture.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|SweetSearch2day] a daily curated assortment of the best content on the Web for history, language arts, science, news, culture and other topics.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|SweetSearch4me] is a search engine for emerging learners.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Twingine] Searches both Google and Yahoo or Google and MSN at the same time, side by side so you can compare the results.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Veezzle] is a free stock photo search engine.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Yippy.com]This search engine adds another element to research. When you type in a term, Yippy returns the word definition, unless it is not applicable, and an encyclopedia entry at the top of the listings. A link is available to see further entries for both. Beneath are website returns. There is also a table on the left-hand side of the page with several tabs: clouds, sources, sites, and time. The clouds tab shows additional topics that can be searched to help students narrow their search. For example, when searching "World War II" the clouds table shows photographs, military, memorials, videos, aircraft, video games, history, and navy as further search items. When you click on one of these, it turns red to help you follow your path of exploration. The sources tab allows you to search by specific source (i.e. - NY Times, Bing, and Encyclopedia). The sites tab allows you to search by URL identifier (.com, .org, .net). Lastly, the time tab allows you to search by the date the site or page was posted (Past 7 days, Past year, Previous years).

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Your Next Read] search for books similar to the ones you like.