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= = =Search Engines= [|Google (Advanced)], NEW!!! [|Google Scholar] Find scholarly, peer-reviewed subject-specific results with [|advanced search] [|Google Book] [|Soople (Google explicit!)] [|Icerocket] blogg search [|Yahoo!Search,] [|All the Web (Advanced),] [|ASK (Advanced)], [|AltaVista](Advanced) [|Exalead Advanced,] [|OAIster (university archives),] [| *Killer Info,] [|WiseNut,] [| HotBot] [|Lycos] [|NBCi.com,] [|Webcrawler] [|Wayback Machine] (archived web pages), [|Daypop] [|Rocket News] (for breaking news) For comparing: [|Twingine] [| Thumbshot] [|Jux2]

//**Special Search Engines**//:
[|Librarians Internet Index] - dozens of high-quality websites carefully selected, described, and organized by our team of librarians. [|Social Issues] Browse hot topics and pro/con links [|Technorati][|Browse] or search user-identified subjects ("tags") for blog advice or opinions [|CiteSeer](who's citing whom in scientific publication), [|OJOSE] (Science Journals), [|AllSearchEngines] (foreign language) Scirus (science) [|http://scirus.com], SearchEric.org (education) [|http://searcheric.org], SOSIG (Social Sciences) http://www.sosig.ac.uk/ HUMBUL (Humanities) http://www.humbul.ac.uk/, Biography Center http://www.biography-center.com/ PSIGate: Physical Science Information Gateway http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/

=Metasearch Engines=

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[|**Clusty,] Brainstorm topic ideas using result clusters. Uncover buried sites by choosing a related cluster. Drill down into a cluster of results
[|Rollyo,] [|Ask.com] [|Ixquick Metasearch], [|Similicio.us,] [|Keotag], [|whonu], [|Answers,com,] [|Ithaki Metasearch], [|Icerocket] [|BrainBoost](question answering/natural language)[|, Turbo10.com,] [|KartOO,] [|Metacrawler],, [|Dogpile], [|MetaEureka], [|Mamma], [|MetaFind,] [| MetaMission], [|MetaSearch,] [|QueryServer][| Metor,] [|Pandia Search Central], [|Search.com], [|SurfWax], [|Highway61,] [|SearchTurtle,] [|WebScout,] [| Proteus]
 * [|Grokker]** Explore a web of your topic and subtopics (Yahoo results)

Subject Directories
[|Librarian's Index to the Internet,] [|Google Directory], [| DMOZ](Open Directory Project), [|netTrekker], [|Yahoo! Directory,] [|Multnomah Homework Center],[| Noodelinks], [|High School Hub], [|Pinakes (subject launchpad)] [|LibrarySpot], [|About.com], [|IPL Pathfinders], [|*Academic Info] (scholarly), [|BUBL LINK] (scholarly), [|Infomine] (scholarly), [|DeskRef,] [|Dewey Browse,] [|CyberDewey], [|Digital Librarian,] [|Awesome Library], [|Best Information on the Internet][|Galaxy,] [|Internet Public Library], [|Invisible Web,] [|Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators], [|Kid Info], [|LookSmart], [|Open Directory Project] , [|WWW Virtual Library], [|TrackStar], [|What You Seek]
 * [|Virtual LRC]** Select a subject category, then search on term(s) or a phrase

Primary Sources
 * [|American Memory] || Locate documents, sound recordings, images, maps, and other American primary sources ||
 * [|Ready, 'Net, Go!] || Browse worldwide archival index ||
 * [|Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web] || Search for online exhibitions selected by Smithsonian librarians ||

=Image and Media Searching= = =
 * (Remember to be careful about copyright, especially when publishing on the Web! Ask for permission to use and cite any image that is not public domain)**
 * ==**[|Copyright--friendly images for Web pages]**==
 * ==[|ClipArt**]==
 * ==**[|Streaming Media Pathfinder]!**==

AltaVista Image Finder [| http://www.altavista.com/image/default] [|Creative Commons Search] Google Image Search [| http://images.google.com/] Corbis.com [| http://corbis.com/] Ditto.com: The Place for Pictures [| http://www.ditto.com/] NYPL Digital Gallery http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm Find Sounds [| http://www.findsounds.com/] Fossick.com Multimedia Fossick.com [| http://fossick.com/Multimedia.htm] Lycos Richmedia [| http://richmedia.lycos.com/] New York Times Multimedia | http://www.nytimes.com/multimedia Pics4Learning [| http://pics.tech4learning.com/] PicSearch [| http://picsearch.com] Proteus Image Search (combined search interface) [| http://www.thrall.org/proimage.html] Public Health Image Gallery [| http://phil.cdc.gov/Phil/default.asp] WebSEEk: Content-based Image and Video Search and Catalog Tool for the Web [| http://ww.ctr.columbia.edu/webseek/] Yahoo Picture Gallery [| http://gallery.yahoo.com/] Yahoo News Image Gallery [| http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/g/ts/] Yahoo! News Photos Slide Gallery [| http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=ss]