- Foto Search Image Search Engine allows users to search from over fifty top stock photography and image sources all at one site
- Picsearch - the search engine for pictures and images
- Phibot special search engine for maths and science
- Turbo10 Metasearch Engine results are organised into separate topics in a pull down menu
- Internet Archive Wayback searches through billions of archived Web pages, giving you a chance to look at shut down Web sites
- Scirus, a powerful new search engine for locating scientific information, indexes complete documents, searches the whole web including access-controlled sites, and reads non-text files like PDF (some of the hits may require a subscription to access the information)
- BoardReader locates information in the Web's forums and message boards (information that most search engines do not retrieve)
- IXQUICK metasearch site allows you to use boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), quoted phrases, plus, minus, and wildcards. Most metasearch tools do not handle complicated search terms well. Unfortunately it does not query Google, which is too bad because Google is one of the best search engines. (Apparently Google requires that metasearch tools pay a licensing fee)
- Google Images searches for pictures not words and is now in Beta but seems to work very well
- QUICK, BROWSE! Build your customized newspaper with just a few clicks, you can even get your Quickbrowse Page delivered in your inbox every day. Forget about clicking on all those links 20 sets of result at once, from EACH search engine, one ONE page
- UK search engine MIRAGO
- "Deep Web Sites" 40x the size of the known surface Web in a broad array of domains from science to law to images and commerce
- FindSame allows users to search for documents using large pieces of text rather than keywords. Discover plagiarism in a student's report, check to see if you have the most recent version of a given document, and track how press releases are being quoted online.
- Guidebeam combines both browsing and direct technology, allowing users to create browseable topic categories on-the-fly. Instead of a group of predetermined topics, such as with Yahoo or the Open Directory, topics displayed are based on user's keyword search entry
- Ask Jeeves
- Raging.com - a fast loading "pure search" site with the same datatbase as AltaVista
- SimpliFind cuts through the potential confusion by first trying to establish the real concept of your query before it begins the search
- Ixquick Metasearch uses a star rating system
- METAEUREKA (JavaScript) no graphics, ads, Clicking on the Site Info link under each result lists, among other things, the last time the site was modified
- Raging Search loads very quickly runs atop an AltaVista search engine
- Web Ferret is popular but like GoZilla it installs the Aureate Advertising and Web use monitoring software as your "payment" for its use
- UK Plus a UK only search engine with censored content
- Baldey a metasearch engine that displays hits by position ranking in the engines searched
- Abyan Super Gateway users can relatively quickly and easily create personalized portals
- Pandia Search Central many different resources accessible from a single starting point
- SearchEdu.com claims to index over 20 million pages in the .edu domain
- SearchGov.com (presumably US Gov)
- Karnak - Web search when you are off line and stores a personal searched library
- METOR searches thousands of databases, archives, and other searchable information sources not checked by conventional meta searchers (if right option to search is used)
- Search IQ , its search engine reviews collection is extensive + large directory of specialized search engines
- Searchling attempts to combine all the advanced keyword and Boolean features of Alta Vista, Infoseek etc. into a unique and easy to use interface.
- Fast search - tens of thousands of hits in under a second and FTP files - VAST web coverage
- Searchpower.com provides links to over 1,700 different specialized search engines.
- Google a search engine that caches web pages so if one is expired you may find it cached here - it now indexes .pdf files too!!
- Inference find
- Parallel metasearch plus resundant tidy up and clustering - WOW
- Welcome to Magellan!
- Magellen 'voyeur'
- Hot Bot (now uses Direct Hit to improve site relevance)
- Result of Coverage Query
- Deja News Query Results
- Dogpile search engine
- Metasearch supporting AND/NEAR/NOT and phrases
- Northern Light
- Like most search engines, Northern Light shows you the 25 strongest hits for your search term(s). What makes Northern Light so special is that, much like Metafind and Inference Find, it also clusters the rest of its hits into something called "Custom Search Folders."
- http://www.800go.com
- Jaboda net power search
- AltaVista: Simple Query This is the US site
- AltaVista: Simple Query (UK mirror) This site is no longer active - have to use the US version above
- AltaVista Search: Help for Simple Query
- AltaVista Search: Advanced Query
- AltaVista Search: Help for Advanced Query
- INFOSEEK
- natural language query capability
- METACRAWLER
- Uses ALL the major search engines!
- Metafind TRY THIS FIRST!!
- Metasearch supports AND/NEAR/NOT/OR and phrases group o/p by domain etc etc etc
- Muscat EuroFerret
- ProFusion--A Meta-Search Engine also ProFusion - Version 2 Beta
- Users can choose which engines to search, and items retrieved are ranked by relevance. Boolean searching is supported, as is optional link checking, a more time-intensive process. Duplicate retrievals are removed by the search system
- Searchopolis--Filtered Search Engine --- a kid-safe search engine
- UK search directory
- PlanetSearch Home Page Loads of replys and relevant
- Open Database Project registering your site is easy - you just click down to the appropriate classification and then go through the URL submission process. If you submit to the Open Database it will eventually appear in all the clone databases that use it as source information
- Search Engine Guide massive metasite with over 2,200 briefly annotated links
- Yahoo search
- GNET Web info channels the definitive, new, FREE, one stop starting point for all of your journeys on he Information Superhighway. GNET $100,000.00 Grand Prize drawing
- Study Web
- Don't use search - hunt by categories - US year 12 is equiv to 6th form or first year at University - good for educational research resouces
- AlphaSearch is a new subject-based metasite
Other facilities
- Zope and Plone are open source applications that allow the creation of web content management systems
- TiddlyWiki, a popular free MicroContent WikiWikiWeb
- Huminity 1.1 [Windows Operating Systems] basically a free instant messenger program that facilitates forming social networks and the ability to navigate animated maps of connections and the additional ability to view the links of friends between users. Available in a number of different languages (including Spanish, German, and French)
- Touchgraph, a web tool which visualizes networks of interrelated web sites. Type in a URL and it will show you graphically how you're connected
- LISTFISH - a search engine designed specifically to help you find email publications
- net TUTOR Ohio State University offers fifteen interactive tutorials that teach effective Internet practices and research methodologies
- Web Navigation & Database Search by E-Mail allows you to navigate off-line and search the whole Internet via e-mail)by using any standard Web browser and a MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Exchange) aware e-mail program
- TinyURL Makes long URL addresses short to make them simpler to exchange them with others
- BotSpot is the place to go if you want to find bots or learn more they classify bots and intelligent agents by subject, with reviews andhistorical perspectives
- OURFAX: Free World Wide Email to Fax Service (registration is required)
- Over 100 terabytes and 10 billion web pages archived from 1996 to the present can also be useful it a site stops working entirely
- Web Search Engines FAQS: Questions, Answers, and Issues
- Time-Saving "MetaBrowsing" lets you assemble ANY pages from ANY site into a scrollable metapage that lets you see all the content at once
- Safeweb {Secure way to surf the Web}view any URL safely and securely (encrypted) masks your computer's address, kill pop-up windows etc
- the Cloak{Anonymous Web surfing) surf the Net anonymously; hide your identity from the sites you visit, protect yourself from local snooping, delete cookies, and selectively bypass encountered Java and JavaScript code.
- Web-based, cross-platform word processing Office-compatible word, spreadsheet etc documents
- RoboGen LE v1.51 [1.4M] W9x/NT/2k FREE generates ROBOTS.TXT to guide search engines
- Take it Offline - users are provided with a unique URL which they can then share with interested users on a mailing list Participants in the bulletinboard can also create their own branch mailing list by choosing to receive postings via email (individually or in digest form).
- Time Cave {Schedule message mailings} e-mail yourself and receive the message at the appropriate time; weeks, months, even years into the future?
- Certified Mail user will receive the message, and you'll receive notification of receipt via e-mail
- Search Engine Watch If you have an insatiable need for the latest news about search engines, how they work, how they compare, and how to get the most out of them
- Talkwway -a new graphical interface to Usenet that makes everything easier. You can find discussion groups, read messages and post your own opus with point & click ease.
- MailCast and Sitemap I
- SiteMap is a great online tool which puts out an interactive map (hierarchical table of contents) of any site. This is nice since it may allow for an easier means. Mailcast provides the option of subscribing to various pages of a mapped site in order to have a notification sent by email when a change has been made of navigating through your favorite site and eliminate unwanted download time due to graphics.
- MailCast and Sitemap II
- ResearchBuzz at http://www.researchbuzz.com . News about helpful Internet research sites, articles, quick tips, a free weekly newsletter, and the occasional rant.
- LiveTopics Help
- Comprehensice crawlers list - (Warwick University)
- FAQ finder
- Who owns/operates this site? the Internic "WhoIs" site
- Amnesi: Lets you search for a domain name when you don't remember the exact name
- Web site finder
- WebFinder boasts a complete database that includes military, government and sites outside the USA
- WebSitez finder
- WebSitez gives users a friendly and fast place to turn for help when they have only part of a name
- Newsgroup search and E-mail the results
- Mails any refernces in a newsgroup to your desired search text
- 700+ Great Sites (Children)
- Britannica Internet Guide
- BIG only includes pointers to sites that provide highly accurate, reliable information
- Research It
- Takes a while to load but worth it - everything from currency rates to the bible - check home page for some specialised research tools
- Siedman's Online Insider
- Other web resources guide (Wired)
- News group search
- CNET route page
- Much quicker, "Deja classic" format
- Usenet drivel word search
- Mail list subject search
- File Mine
- FTP file finder
- Industry Direct UK
- Oxford businesses
- UK second hand cars
- Freepages UK
- UK yellow pages search
- Reference.COM newsgroup search
- Filez FTP and files web searcher
Universal Hint System {Solve hundreds of video games}