Specialized Search Engines Specialized Search Engines
Search engines |
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Multimedia searching (Images, Sound) |
Expert
advice sites |
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Consumer Complaint Sites |
 www.google.comwww.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html Google and Google Cheatsheet |
www.alltheweb.com FAST Search. Claims to be the world's biggest search engine. Handles multiple types of files. |
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www.search.com/ Search.com |
www.webring.org Web Ring. Collections of Web sites related to one another. |
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www.mamma.com Mamma. Bills itself as the "Mother of all search engines." |
www.highbeam.com/ Highbeam research |
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www.encyberpedia.com/ency.htm A huge link collection that functions as a quasi-encyclopedia on the Web |
www.metacrawler.com MetaCrawler. |
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www.nlsearch.com Northern Light search. Searches web and a large body of off-Web data. |
www.beaucoup.com List more than 1,000 search engines and directories |
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www.ask.com/ Ask.com |
http://www.a9.com/ Amazon's search engine |
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www.itpapers.com Online catalogue for white papers. |
www.kartoo.com/ Graphical search engine |
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www.fire-find.com/ A search engine for firefighters |
www.geniusfind.com/ Catalogue of search engines |
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www.webtaxi.com webtaxi |
www.dogpile.com Dogpile |
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http://dmoz.org DMOZ. Open directory project. A catalogue site that uses thousands of online editors. |
www.answers.com/ Answers.com |
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www.clickey.com A search engine that can look just at URLs. |
www.voila.com An international search engine that concentrates on vertical industry niches. |
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www.searchmil.com/ Military web site search engine |
www.findarticles.com/ Finds thousands of articles from magazines and journals |
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www.mysimon.com Searches more than 2000 online shops |
www.humorsearch.com Searches Web pages with jokes, humor. |
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www.crossengine.com/ Multi-search screen |
www.vivisimo.com Category searches. Meta-search engine |
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www.magportal.com/ Searches for articles in magazines |
www.textpresso.org/ Search engine for biological data |
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www.addall.com/ Book search and price comparisons (for even out-of-print books.) |
www.alexa.com/ Search engine that helps find the best sites |
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www.academicinfo.net/ Academic information |
www.mooter.com/moot Concept search engine |
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www.soople.com/ Precision searching in Google |
www.scirus.com/srsapp/ Science search engine |
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www.icerocket.com/ Search (including blogs) |
www.gigablast.com/ Gigablast |
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www.live.com/ MSN's search engine |
http://scholar.google.com/ Google Scholar |
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www.business.com/ Business search engine |
www.exalead.com/search Search engine with visuals of web page |
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www.copernic.com/ Desktop search engine tool |
www.philb.com/whichengine.htm Advice on which search engine to use |
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www.factbites.com/index.html Search Engine with encyclopedia |
http://answers.yahoo.com/ Answers from real people |
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http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/ Law search engine |
www.ohnorobot.com/ Personalized comic search |
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http://goliath.ecnext.com/ Document search engine |
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www.rollyo.com/ Search engine that you build with your own resource list |
www.kosmix.com/ Kosmix |
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www.alacrastore.com/ Alacrastore - searches for business information |
www.freepatentsonline.com/ Patent search engine |
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www.scitopia.org/scitopia/ Science, technology search engine |
http://askville.amazon.com/ Askville |
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www.hakia.com/ Hakia |
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/ Finds out who has been changing wikipedia entries |
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www.usa.gov/ US Government web sites search engine |
www.quintura.com/ Quintura |
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http://it.com/ Information technology vertical search engine |
www.zibb.com/ Vertical business search engine |
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http://verticalsearch.com/ Search engine of vertical search engines |
http://searchfinance.com/ Search engine for finance executives |
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www.worldcat.org/ Searches for books in nearby libraries |
www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia Wiki Search |
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http://worldwidescience.org/ Science search |
www.searchcrystal.com/home.html Visual search engine |
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www.walk2web.com/ Visual search engine |
www.boardreader.com/ A search engine for message boards |
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http://groups.yahoo.com/ Search mailing lists of interest |
http://groups.google.com/ Newsgroup/mailing list/discussion monitoring |
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www.topicle.com/ Search engine community |
www.powerset.com/ Contextual search of Wikipedia |
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www.viewzi.com/ Visual search |
www.cuil.com/ Cuil |
Multimedia Searching (Images and Sound)
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www.ditto.com Image searching |
http://blinkx.com/ TV video search |
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http://music.cnet.com/ Search for sound files |
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www.faganfinder.com/img/ Fagan Finder |
www.pixsy.com/ Image search |
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www.veoh.com/ Veoh |
www.youtube.com/ YouTube |
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www.joost.com/ Joost |
http://video.aol.com/ Video - AOL |
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http://video.google.com/ Video - Google |
www.earthcam.com/ Earth cams |
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http://image.altavista.com/cgi-bin/avncgi Alta Vista's photo finder |
www.like.com/ Searches for similar visuals |
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www.iheard.com/ Searches for radio stations |
www.everyzing.com/ http://podscope.com/ Two search engines for iPod audio |
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www.hon.ch/MedHunt/ MedHunt catalogue and crawler |
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www.epinions.com Epinions. Online reviews |
www.allexperts.com Advice from live experts. |
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http://ehow.com eHow. A site that tells you how to do things. Expert advice. |
www.about.com A site that uses human experts to guide you through the web. |
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www.experts-exchange.com Experts Exchange |
Consumer Complaint Sites (There are many of these. Here are a few)
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www.consumeraffairs.com/ Consumeraffairs.com |
www.thesqueakywheel.com/ The Squeaky Wheel |
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www.bbb.org/ Better Business Bureau |
www.complaints.com Complaints against consumer companies |
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http://getsatisfaction.com/ Get Satisfaction |
www.baddealings.com/ Bad Dealings |
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www.complaintcenter.com/ Complaint Center |
www.planetfeedback.com/ PlanetFeedback |
