Google is a search engine owned by Google, Inc. The largest
search engine on the web, Google indexes a portion of the total
amount of webpages on the web. Google receives several hundred
million queries each day through its various services.
http://www.Google.com
Full text of web pages (Also huge), .pdf, .ps, flash, and others.
Plus: News (7000 sources), Images, Maps, People, Local, Travel,
Shopping, Video, Audio, Podcasts, and more.
http://www.YahooSearch.com
Searches Google, Yahoo, Ask, MSN, About.com, and more. Selection
varies. Sponsored listings interfiled with other results, but
identified as "Sponsored by" under result.
http://www.Dogpile.com
Guides offer practical advice and solutions for every day
life.Owned by The New York Times Company.
http://www.About.com
A one-stop site for all things Internet including news, weather,
sports, reference, encyclopedia (50 areas), facts on file, FAQs,
tutorials, search engines, ...
http://www.refdesk.com/
Full text of web pages (over 2 billion). Excellent ranking! But
where's Jeeves?
http://www.ask.com
Google Scholar
Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines
and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.
http://www.scholar.google.com
Answers.com - the ultimate answer engine, with quick accurate
dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, bios, tech terms, news,
sports, weather, and much more.
http://www.Answers.com
AltaVista provides the most comprehensive search experience on
the Web!
AltaVista Babel Fish provides the online text and web page
language translation!
http://www.altavista.com
The POWERLibrary is offered as a service of Pennsylvania's public
libraries, school libraries, and the State Library. The POWER
Library allows you FREE access to thousands of full text
periodical articles, newspapers,a major encyclopedia, plus
photographs, pictures, charts, maps, reference materials for
young people and more. You will find materials of interest in
most subject areas for all age groups from young children to
adults.
http://www.powerlibrary.info
Free online text to thousands of books available to be read
online. Just plug in the title and access the text. Classics
and works prior to 1923 are more extensive.
http://www.books.google.com
HotBot
The most flexible of the search engines - it lets you get 100
hits at a time.
http://www.hotbot.com/