| By Fields
and File Types |
| To Search for ... |
Choose ... |
| Audio/Music |
akoo.com
|
AllTheWeb |
AltaVista |
CNET MP3 Search |
Dogpile |
FindSounds.com
| FtpFind |
Genie Knows
|
HotBot SuperSearch |
Ithaki |
Ixquick |
Lycos Music
Downloads | Mamma
| Lycos Multimedia
Search |
MSN
Search Advanced Search |
Researchville:
Audio | SearchTurtle.com
| Singingfish
|
| Date last modified |
AllTheWeb Advanced Search |
AltaVista Advanced Search |
AltaVista Search Assistant |
Google
Advanced Search |
HotBot |
MSN
Search Advanced Search |
| Domains/Site URLs |
AllTheWeb Advanced Search |
AltaVista Search Assistant |
Google Advanced Search |
HotBot SuperSearch |
MSN Search
Advanced Search |
Namedroppers.com
| SearchEdu.com
| Virtual Learning
Resources Center |
| Geographic location |
AltaVista Search Assistant |
Clickey |
Fossick
|
HotBot SuperSearch |
Mama
Power Search |
MetaCrawler
Power Search |
MSN Search
Advanced Search |
Northern Light Geosearch |
| Images |
AllTheWeb
|
AltaVista |
The Amazing
Picture Machine |
Ditto |
Dogpile |
FtpFind |
Genie Knows
| Google Image Search
| HotBot |
Ithaki |
Ixquick |
Lycos Multimedia
Search | Mamma
| MSN Search
Advanced Search |
Picsearch |
Researchville:
Images |
Search Online |
SearchTurtle.com
| Visoo
|
Yahoo! News Image Gallery |
| Language |
AllTheWeb |
AltaVista |
Google
Language Tools |
HotBot |
MSN Search
Advanced Search |
| Multimedia and video |
akoo.com
|
All TheWeb |
AltaVista | Dogpile
| FtpFind |
Genie Knows
| HotBot |
Lycos Multimedia
Search | Mamma
| Researchville:
Video |
Search Online |
SearchTurtle.com
| Singingfish |
| Programming language |
HotBot SuperSearch |
MSN
Search Advanced Search |
| Proper name |
AltaVista | HotBot
|
| Title |
AllTheWeb Advanced Search |
AltaVista |
AltaVista Search Assistant |
Google
Advanced Search |
HotBot |
iLOR |
Mamma |
Virtual Learning
Resources Center |
| By Logic |
| If you want to use ... |
Choose ... |
| Boolean operators |
AltaVista Advanced Search |
Dogpile |
HotBot |
Ixquick |
metaEUREKA
| ProFusion
|
Full Boolean logic with parentheses
e.g., behavior and (cats or felines) |
AltaVista Advanced Search |
HotBot |
Ixquick |
MSN Search
Advanced Search |
| Implied Boolean +/- |
Most search engines offer this option |
| Boolean logic by template terminology |
AllTheWeb Advanced Search |
AltaVista Search Assistant |
AOL Search
Options |
Google
Advanced Search |
HotBot |
iLOR Advanced Search |
Lycos Advanced
Search | Metor
| MonkeySweat
| MSN
Search Advanced Search |
| Proximity searching |
AltaVista Advanced Search |
Google [by default]
| Ixquick |
| By Options |
| To Search for ... |
Choose ... |
| Alternative search terms |
SurfWax | Turbo10
|
| User fill-in templates |
AltaVista Search Assitant |
Google
Advanced Search |
HotBot |
Lycos Advanced
Search |
metaEUREKA | Metor
| MSN
Search Advanced Search |
ProFusion Advanced |
Virtual Learning
Resources Center |
| Case sensitivity |
AltaVista
|
| Search within existing results |
AltaVista
| HotBot |
Lycos |
| Search for documents similar to those in existing
results |
AltaVista
| Google |
iLOR |
ProFusion
|
| Retrieve results on related searches |
HotBot
| Ixquick |
Lycos |
Teoma |
| Truncation |
AltaVista
| Ixquick |
| Automatic truncation |
HotBot |
Lycos |
| Your search stated in plain English |
AltaVista
| Ask Jeeves |
Ithaki |
Ixquick |
| Translation of pages retrieved as search results,
or any text or Web page, to and from selected languages |
Babel Fish
|
| An exact phrase within quotations |
Most search engines offer this option |
| An exact phrase from a template choice |
Many search templates offer this. For example:
AllTheWeb Advanced Search |
Fazzle |
Fossick
|
Google Advanced Search |
HotBot |
MonkeySweat
|
MSN Search Advanced Search |
| Multiple search tools searched simultaneously with
duplicate records removed |
C4
| Chubba |
Copernic |
Fazzle |
Fossick
| Ithaki |
Ixquick |
Mamma |
MetaCrawler
| ProFusion
| Search Online
| Query Server
| SearchTurtle.com
| SurfWax |
more... |
| By Results |
| If You Want ... |
Choose ... |
| Results based on linking, i.e., number of links
from highly rated Web pages |
Alexa Web Search
| Google |
Google Web
Directory | Teoma
|
| Results based on popularity, i.e., selections by
other searchers or rankings by engines/directories |
Alexa Web Search
| AOL Search
| Ixquick |
Search Online
| Teoma |
ZapMeta |
| Concept processing applied to your search |
AllThe
Web | Ask Jeeves
| Atomica |
Guidbeam |
Infonetware
| Kartoo |
Query Server
| SurfWax |
Teoma |
Vivisimo |
| Results grouped by concept and/or type of site
(a "horizontal" rather than a single vertical list of results) |
AllThe
Web | Guidbeam
| iBoogie |
Infonetware
| Kartoo |
Query Server
| Teoma |
Turbo10 |
Vivisimo |
| Clustering of results into one hit per site with
the option to see all |
AllTheWeb
| AltaVista
| HotBot |
WISEnut |
| Queries stored at the site and notification of
new results |
Karnak
| TracerLock
|
| Queries stored by the search service for repeat
searches |
Copernic
|
| By Specialty |
| If you want to search... |
Choose... |
| The "Deep Web" (not covered by search spiders) |
Atomica |
Complete
Planet |
Direct Search |
Fazzle |
Google |
iBoogie |
The InvisibleWeb
| Invisible-web.net
|
Lycos Directory: Searchable Databases |
MetaIQ |
ProFusion
| Search.Com
| Search Engines
and News |
Subject
Directory of Search Engines
[Many search engine sites offer deep Web searches. For example, see
Ixquick] |
| Files in FTP sites (text, multimedia, software,
etc.) |
FtpFind |
Ftpsearchengines.com
| Oth Net |
| News (multiple sources searched simultaneously) |
AlltheWeb:
News | AltaVista
- News | InfoGrid
| NewsNow
| NewsTrove.com
| Pandia Newsfinder
| RocketInfo
| The WorldNews
Network |
| Usenet newsgroup postings |
Chubba
| Gripe.com |
Ithaki |
MetaCrawler
| metaEUREKA
| Google Groups
|
Yahoo! Search Options |
| Professionally maintained directories |
About
| Academic
Info | BUBL
LINK | INFOMINE
| Librarians' Index
to the Internet |
Resource Discovery
Network |
Scout
Report Archives |
Virtual Learning
Resources Center |
WWW Virtual Library
| more... |
| Voluntarily maintained directories |
JoeAnt
| Open Directory Project
(DMOZ) |
