Search Engines from A to Z

A basic tutorial on searching the Web:
http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/bones.html


(A-E)

2Q
http://www.2q.to/

About Com.
http://about.com/

AlphaSearch
http://www.alphasearch.org/

All in One Search page
http://www.allonesearch.com/

All Seeing Eye
http://www.streeteye.com/cgi-bin/allseeing.cgi

Altavista
http://www.altavista.com/

Altaseek
http://www.altaseek.com/

Argus Music Searcher
http://www.fuzzlogic.com/argus/

Ask Jeeves
http://www.askjeeves.com/

Beaucoup Search Engines
http://www.beaucoup.com/engines.html

Best Search
http://www.datacomm.ch/peterwyss/search/

BigHub (Mega-search engine)
http://www.bighub.com/

Deja.com
http://deja.com/

Direct Hit
http://www.directhit.com/

Dogpile (Meta-search engine)
http://www.dogpile.com/index.gsp

Excite
http://www.excite.com/


(F-J)

Fast Search
http://www.ussc.alltheweb.com/

FirstGov (One-stop Government documents)
http://firstgov.gov/

Go
http://www.go.com/

Google
http://www.google.com/

Hotbot
http://hotbot.lycos.com/

ix quick (Meta-search engine)
http://ixquick.com/

Jayde Online Directory
http://www.jayde.com/


(K-O)

Inference Find (Meta-search engine)
http://www.infind.com/

i-won
http://www.iwon.com/

Look Smart
http://www.looksmart.com/

Lycos
http://www.lycos.com/

Northern Light
http://www.northernlight.com/

Mamma.com
http://mamma.com/psearch.html

Matilda
http://www.aaa.com.au/

Metacrawler (Meta-search engine)
http://www.metacrawler.com/

Meta Eureka (Meta-search engine)
http://www.metaeureka.com/

Metor
http://www.metor.com/

Open Directory
http://www.dmoz.org/


(P-T)

Profusion
http://www.profusion.com/

Savvy Search
http://www.search.com/

Search A Lot
http://www.searchalot.com/

Search Engines Galore
http://www.searchenginesgalore.com/

Search on the Ramp
http://search.onramp.net/

Scrub the Web
http://www.scrubtheweb.com/index.html

Snap.com
http://www.snap.com/

Surfwax
http://www.surfwax.com/servlet/home

Teoma.com
http://www.teoma.com/

Terra (Spain)
http://www.terra.es/

T-page
http://www.tpage.com/

Raging Search
http://ragingsearch.altavista.com/


(U-Z)

Ultimate Search Page
http://www.luciddreams.com/search/

Webcrawler
http://www.webcrawler.com/

Xrefer
http://w1.xrefer.com/search.jsp
xrefer, a new search engine launched on 30 May, has taken a good idea and improved upon it. The good idea is to aggregate dozens of reputable reference works in electronic form and make them searchable from a single interface.

Yahoo
http://www.yahoo.com/


Image Search Engines:

Arriba Vista
http://www.arribavista.com/

Image Finder (SunSITE, Berkeley)
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/ImageFinder/

1StopStock
http://www.1stopstock.com/

Scour Net
http://www.scour.com/

Web Seek (Columbia University)
http://www.scour.com/


Image Search Sites:

Aboriginal Art
Eskimo, Inuit, Indian sculpture, prints, wood carvings and more.
http://www.aboriginart.com/

Africa-related images
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/GIF_Images.html

Amazing Picture Machine
Contents include images from Aircraft, to American Cities to Famous Actors and Actresses of the 20th Century to Paintings and Famous Works of Art to World War II. Supported through the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.
http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm

Animal Pictures Archive
http://www.best5.net/animal/

Art Crimes: Writing on the Wall
http://www.graffiti.org/

Artcyclopedia
Search 7,000 artists names and their artworks!
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

ArtsEd Image Finder (Getty ArtsEdNet)
Search by artist, title or date.
http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/ArtsEdNet/Images/index.html

Christus Rex et Redemptor Mundi
A private, non-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination of information on works of art preserved in churches, cathedrals and monasteries all over the world.
http://www.christusrex.org/

French Cave Paintings
The beginning of maybe something big, linked from the French Ministry of Culture's homepage.
http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/gvpda-d.htm

The Picture Collection
Time, Inc. has placed hundreds of thousands of photographs from its collection of more than 20 million photos taken since the 1930s for its publications online for the whole world to see.
http://www.thepicturecollection.com/

Metropolitan Museum of Art
View images from the Met.
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/index.asp

SPIRO
Searchable Architecture Slide Library from Berkeley, search by period or topic, subject, building or object.
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/query_forms/browse_spiro_form.html

Symbols
This site contains more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics.
Their histories, uses, and meanings are thoroughly discussed. The signs range from ideograms carved in mammoth
teeth by Cro-Magnon men, to hobo signs and subway graffiti.
http://www.symbols.com/

Renaissance and Baroque Images
From slides taken by Professor C. W. Westfall and used in his survey course, Renaissance and Baroque Architecture (ARH 102), University of Virginia, School of Architecture, Department of Architectural History.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dic/colls/arh102/index.html

World Art Treasures
A treasure trove of 100,000 slides belonging to the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation, devoted to art, and including the main civilizations, such as Egypt, China, Japan, India, Europe. An awesome site!
http://sgwww.epfl.ch/berger/


International Search Engines:

Foreign Search Engines
http://www.allsearchengines.com/foreign.html

Canoe (Canadian Search Engine)
http://www.canoe.ca/

European Search Engines
http://www.netmasters.co.uk/european_search_engines/

Yupi (Latin American Search Engine)
http://yupi.com/

Updated: January 31, 2007