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Links to Search Engines and Directories

Popular Search Engines


http://www.alltheweb.com




http://www.altavist.com


http://www.ask.com
(formorly Teoma)


http://www.google.com


http://search.yahoo.com/


Meta Search Engines
(search engines that search search engines)

dogpile
Dogpile

iboogie
iBoogie

metacrawler
MetaCrawler

surfwax
SurfWax


Clusty


Ask-A-Services

Directories

Ask A+ Locator
(part of the Virtual Reference Desk)

refdesk.com

General

Abuzz

AskBAR

Ask An Expert

Allexperts.com

Ask the Old Buzzard

Ask Jeeves

Ask Madge

Ask PointAsk

Ask Zack

CNN.com: Ask CNN

Electronic Emissary

Experts.com

Google Answers

Imagiverse

Internet Public Library

Keen.com

Wondir

Legal

Ask the Specialist

Ask-A-Lawyer

Math and Science

Ask-A-Geologist

Ask Dr. Math

Ask Dr. Universe

Ask a Mad Scientist

Ask Shamu

Ask the Space Scientist

How Things Work

Science Canada

Scientific American: Ask the Expert

Medical/Health

Ask Jack!

FindCancerExperts.com

Go Ask Alice!

Mdexpert.com

Art and Humanities

Ask Joan of Art!

Ask the Oracle

Library of Congress: American Memory

Family and Personal

Ask Madge

iVillage—Experts Directory (“dozens of experts”)

Linguistics and Urbanism

grammarNOW!

Slavic Reference Service

Subject Directories & 
Specialized Search Engines

Search Engines are indexing tools that search the Internet for occurrences of a specific word or phrase.

Directories are searchable collections of sites that have been arranged by subject or concepts.

Meta Search Engines search several search engines at the same time.

Reviews and lists with more search engines:



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