Digg.com
Digg posts prominent links based on users, building a "social news site."Pixsy.com
This search engine pulls images and video from all kinds of news resources. Browse by category, etc.
DoubleTrust
Takes the results of Google and Yahoo! and shows you which ones show up on search tools.
Yahoo! Next
Shows what tools are in beta and coming soon.
SearchAllinOne.com
A multiple engine search tool.
ZabaSearch.com
This site provides basic information for free, including birth year, month, phone number and address for free and deeper background information for a fee. There is a fee for queries that return a wealth of info sometimes dating back more than 10 years: residential addresses, phone numbers both listed and unlisted, birth year, even satellite photos of people's homes.
FundRace.org
Search by ZIP code to see who in your area contributes to federal election campaigns.
AlltheWeb.net
An incredibly fast, helpful search tool. The site's FAST search technology scans more than 3,000 news sources worldwide and adds more than 800 articles per minute to its news catalog.
Kids.net.au
A search engine just for kids!
OneLook.com
Dewey Browser
Lets you point and click through the Dewey Decimal Classication to entries of interest, and browse a collection of Worldcat records and other material.
Time Magazine Archives
More than 81 years of articles are now online and searchable.
LifeHacker.com: Locate Original Documents Online
A guide to finding public records, etc.
Lifehacker: Top 20 Search Engine Helpers
Lifehacker: Searching the Invisible Web
MrSapo.com
This site gives users the option to receive results from 24 search engines at a time.
FactBites.com
This site is billed as a cross between a search engine and an encyclopedia. It provides searchers with full sentences about their search topic, rather than the sentence fragments most search engines offer. It s?eeks out authoritative and informative content, preferring
encyclopedia-style fact-based descriptions to the chatty, spammy and
inconsequential.?
HighBeam.com
Access 1.5 million articles from more than 200 sources for free.
SearchSpy from Dogpile
Metasite that combines Google, Yahoo! and others into one search tool. A scrolling list of what people are searching at that moment.
Leadership Directories
Find leaders in government, foreign affairs, legal, media, etc.
Diplomacy Monitor.com
From the St. Thomas University School of Law, a real time feed of documents from governments from around the globe.
LookSmart.com
This ties to the mighty Microsoft network searches.
Lycos
KPLAY Search Site
Find a person's phone number, e-mail address; find local businesses, weather, etc.
Lycos Multimedia Search
MSN Windows Live Search
Adds new tools and a new look to help compete for advanced search users.
Deep Quote
Have you ever wanted to direct someone to a website where you've read something and have to hope that they find the portion of the page you're referring to? Enter the quote, then provide the page you found it on and the service gives you a link that dramatically highlights the quote.
The News Directory
Portal for finding news stories, search magazines, etc.
Kartoo.com
A France-based search engine that piggybacks on Google and other engines but presents its results unconventionally: as "maps." The results are displayed in a way that allows you to tell which sites are more important.
WiseNut.com
A simple, easy-to-use search tool with more than 1.5 billion sites in its database.
EntireWeb.com
TVEyes
The site offers "transcript search" of podcasts. The site is fee-based service and allows you to search nearly all major TV networks and some local stations. The site also has a free transcript search of TV news video available on the open web from MSNBC, Reuters, etc.
Search Engine Colossus: International Directory of Search Engines
WhoisReport.com
This domain name search engine offers some unique features.
isleuth.com
More than 2,000 searchable databases.
Search-22
Infoplease.com Almanac Search Page
Ask2k.com
A listing of top web sites.
Topix.net
This site uses news aggregation and categorizes news stories on the Web into more than 150,000 pages. It relies on computer algorithms to sort stories. It monitors breaking news from over 3,000 sources, 24 hours a day. These algorithms read every story as it is released and then categorize each one into one or more topic pages. Among the category pages are separate ones for 30,000 U.S. cities and towns, 5,500 public companies and industries, 48,000 celebrities and musicians, 1,500 sports teams and personalities, and many, many more. Most helpful is the People page.
SkipEase.com
A specialized directory for people and public records searching.
Grub.org
Grub uses the power of distributed computing to build Web searches. It automatically crawls the Web in the background, borrowing your computer's spare clock cycles, so you won't even notice it's there. The download is quick, you control how much you crawl, and a screensaver shows you the real-time progress your computer is making.
A9.com
Amazon.com search site.
Copyscape
Track who has lifted content off your website. Just type in the URL of your site.
Newszap.com
Search engine and online news, tools.
Pandia Search Engine for News Sites
RocketNews.com
Like Google News Search, this engine finds current news from all around the Internet. It automatically searches major online national and city newspapers, newswires, magazines, trade publications and press releases.
FindArticles.com
A free online article search.
Glossarist.com
A searchable directory of glossaries and subject directories covering hundreds of topics.
NewsNow
A British site with many U.S. resources. Updates every five minutes.
Search Moreover.com News Feeds
Searches many news feeds.
Fagan Finder
A great search tool that added several new features in May 2002. Journalists will be especially interested in the search engines, reference, news and law sections.
Findwhat.com
Search engine with great polls and surveys on user habits.
Overture.com
Formerly Goto.com, this search engine sells its search results to the highest bidder.
AltaVista Image Search
SearchSpell.com
Check your spelling as you submit a query.
Search SEC Filings
Findia.Net Search
A good general search tool.
Library of Congress: Thomas Search Engine
Tracks congressional bills as they pass through the system.
USPS: Quick Zip Code Search
AreaCodeDownload.com
Quick reference area codes and zip codes.
Podscope
Searches the web for podcasts.
Washington Post Bill Tracker
Search bills by state, voters, those who missed a vote, vote margin, etc.
FirstGov.Gov Search Database
The new database is built and powered by FAST Search and Transfer. FAST also provides the AllTheWeb engine. Limit terms by title, URL, text, state government, federal government or a specific domain.
WebSite-Watcher
A clipping-type tool that automatically looks for changes on web pages, any page at any level), as often as you like (every 30 minutes, hourly, daily, etc.) and then highlights precisely where on the page changes occur. Results are delivered via the tool or via e-mail.
TrackEngine.com
A clipping-type tool similar to WebSite-Watcher.
Orientation
Locally focused search engines from hundreds of countries.
All Law
Search engine and legal directory that has state resources.
Business.com
Business search engine.
Business Publications Search Engine
Find several great topics, including Internet business, intellectual property issues, industry publications, economics, management and more.
Itzalist.com
1st Headlines
Searches current news headlines and can be refined by topic, country, breaking news.
20Search.com
A search time-saver: on one page, there are the search boxes for 20 of the most popular search engines. Not just links to each engine, although those links are there as well, but the actual search box for each engine.
Anzwers.com
ExactSeek.com
Descibes itself as "an intelligent search engine."
WhatUseek.com
Traffick.com
A guide to Web portals. Many helpful tools.
The Paperboy.com
Inference Find
Washington Post.com World News Search
Enter country name in a database for news and Web links.
CNET Search.com
Metahoo.com
Metahoo! is an AD-FREE Web portal dedicated to simplifying the search process for its users by bringing back relevant and timely results as efficiently as possible. It offers users the ability to quickly and easily find information on the Web by searching through indexes of web documents. A user may enter a search term or terms and review a list of the best matches from all indexed Web pages.
SparkNotes
Search texts, newsfeeds, study guides and message boards.
LawCrawler
Powered by Google, the Web?s best search engine, it hunts down anything legal online.
SiloBreaker
An online search service for news and current events that delivers "meaning and relevance beyond traditional search and aggregation engines."
Feedspot
Another search tool that allows you to search blogs by geographic location.
Regret the Error
A blog that reports on corrections, retractions, clarifications, and trends regarding accuracy and honesty in North American media.
ChronWatch.com
A reader blog that monitors the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Wayback Machine
Tied to a database of 10 billion archived Web pages that go back five years. See what old and defunct sites looked like. Heavy use, so download may be slow.
Best20Sites.com
Yahoo News Search
Still in beta-testing. This site covers thousands of periodicals and web sites.
Alexa.com
Downloadable software that makes searching the Web easier. The site has many Web search tools.
The Cybercafe Search Engine
Podscope
A search engine for podcast.
CrossSearch
Major search engine for Christian and religious Web sites.
Cinema FreeNet
Search for a database of movies, actors, directors, and producers.
She Knows Search Engine
A women's resource search tool: arts, business, education, parenting, health/fitness, finance and more.
ElvisFind.com
Billed as the ultimate Elvis search engine and site directory, this is your Internet guide to the King.
META-SEARCH TOOLS
How They Work: Submit keywords in the search box, and it transmits your search simultaneously to several individual search engines, subject directories and their databases of Web pages.
Mamma.com
Billed as the "mother of all search engines," this tool keeps it simple.
Teoma.com
Provides three types of results: 1) a listing of Web links; 2) clustering related links into categories; 3) "expert links" that bring together resources on specific topics. It removes duplicate links as well, thus speeding your search.
Vivisimo
Results page groups links together, making it quicker to scan. Searches Yahoo, AltaVista, MSN/Hotbot, alltheweb, OpenDirectory/AOL, Excite, DirectHit, Looksmart, EuroSeek.
Copernic
This site searches Alta Vista, AOL.com, Direct Hit, EuroSeek, Excite, Fast Search, Google, GoTo, HotBot, LookSmart, Lycos, Magellan, MSN Web, Netscape Netcenter, Open Directory, Snap, Web Crawler,Yahoo! and some international sites.
DipBox.com
A metasearch thats search of Altavista, Fast & Wisenut.
Freeality
Various search tools, people locator.
Dogpile
Surfs about 15 search engines and directories.
Ixquick
AOL, AltaVista, LookSmart, EuroSeek, Excite, FindWhat, MSN, alltheweb, GoTo, Hotbot, Yahoo! Translates your search into each search engine's syntax.
MetaCrawler
Searches AltaVista and some minor databases.
Proteus
A guide to the Web guides. This site makes it convenient to use many search tools all in one place.
NewsPlace.org
Features meta-search capabilities which scan sistes such as ixQuick, AllTheWeb News, and News search from Northern Light. The site also has a "Grammar Matters" review section.
Mooch.com
Mooch tries to break down the broad of information available on the Web and place it into easy to digest nuggets. Flash navigation allows you to quickly drill down into the Web.
Black Widow Search Tool
SavvySearch.com
All 4 One Search Engines Worldwide
Search tools organized by country. Very cool.
WebInfoSearch.com
Surfwax.com
Good for general keyword searches.
Metaspy
Track what people are surfing online.
Debriefing Search Engine
Claims to be the "world's most powerful search engine."
SUBJECT DIRECTORIES
Cyberjournalist Reporter's SuperSearch
Homeland Security Digital Library
Search engine allows you to scan more than 30 homeland security blogs.
About.com
Excite
Info - Encyclopedia and Reference Resource
Browse articles in all areas of topics within Earth & Environment, History, Literature & Arts, Health & Medicine, People, Philosophy & Religion, Places, Plants & Animals, Science & Technology, Social Science, Law, Sports, Everyday Life, and more. Includes Country Studies and North America Gazetteer.
Dmoz.org/
Open directory project. Has look and feel of a Yahoo!
Librarians' Index to the Internet
A "thinking person's Yahoo" subject directory that's updated regularly.
Internet Public Library Pathfinder
University of Michigan librarians organize subject pages that included annotated suggestions for both the Web and library books. A great starting point for any story.
Infomine
A high-quality subject directory; librarian-selected with flexible search option.
Subjex.com
A dialogue-based format where search terms can be placed in natural language style.
Teoma
Organizes results by grouping into topic folders at the top, as well as listings of relevant authoritative sites and expert or "hub" links.
Coneteq
Allows you to search products by brand, price and location. Created in Lebanon.
Soople.com
Contains a series of well-organized forms enabling one-click searching of Google's most powerful features, from mathematical calculations to language translation.
National Portrait Gallery Searchable Database
Search for all of their pieces by artist, title, etc.
National Gallery of Art Searchable Database
Search for all of their pieces by artist, title, etc.
BookTV.org
A very handy search tool allows you to locate video interviews with non-fiction book editors.
AcademicInfo.net
Click on advanced search button.
U.S. City Directories
City directories, arguably one of the most over-looked resources by genealogists, have been around since the 1700s. This web site attempts to identify all printed, microfilmed, and online directories, and their repositories, for the United States.
Suite 101.com
Pretrieve.com Public Records Search Engine
A public records search tool designed to make finding information about a person or business from free public record sites faster and easier. Pretrieve provides categorized tabs with links to meaningful and relevant information and delivers users directly to their search results -- not simply dumping them off at the front door of the home page -- by preloading the search criteria.
Scout Report Signpost
More than 8,000 of the best internet resources chosen by Scout Report.
CyberPaperBoy.com
Helps you find any online newspaper in the world.
RhymeZone Shakespeare Search Engine
West Egg ClicheFinder Search Engine
More than 3,300 indexed cliches. Look them up and edit them out of stories.
INVISIBLE WEB
How They Work: These are databases and online tools that the search engines and subject directories often miss. They're great for finding powerful databases and research on a a variety of topics.
CNET Search.com
This "Invisible Web" tool offers specialized search topics such as business, government, people and travel.
HyperStat Searchable Stats Database
Powered by Rice University.
SearchSystems.net Database Links
Links to almost 5,000 public records databases. Claims to be the largest free collection of public records databases on the Web.
