Searching the Internet

For more advice on choosing a search engine, try Phil Bradley's Internet Searching Page. For the latest search engine news, try Search Engine Watch.

Some useful Search Engines to try:

• All the Web – optimistically named search engine with many advanced search features
• Ask Jeeves! – question-based search engine
• Business Finder – Lycos UK/Thompson Directories
• Dogpile UK – meta search engine specialising in UK-only searches
• Google UK – search engine noted for its highly effective result-ranking algorithms
• Highbeam Research – searches a library of articles and reference material, and performs various customisable meta searches
• Internet Public Library Searching Tools – American advice on effective searching, with further searching links
• Librarians' Index to the Internet – web directory edited by a team of American librarians
• IxQuick – meta search engine with good support for Boolean operators and wildcards Includes excellent international phone directory
• Lycos – one of the earliest search engines
• Open Directory – volunteer-edited directory of web pages, and the basis of most other web directories
• Turboscout – allows many of the major search engines to be searched sequentially from a single search box
• The UK Web Library – directory of UK websites, classified using Dewey Decimal Classification, 20th edition
• Yahoo! – one of the earliest web directories, now with its own search engine