Specialized Search Engines
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www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html Google and Google Cheatsheet |
FAST Search. Claims to be the world's biggest search engine. Handles multiple types of files. |
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Search.com |
Web Ring. Collections of Web sites related to one another. |
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Mamma. Bills itself as the "Mother of all search engines." |
Highbeam research |
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A huge link collection that functions as a quasi-encyclopedia on the Web |
MetaCrawler. |
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Northern Light search. Searches web and a large body of off-Web data. |
List more than 1,000 search engines and directories |
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Ask.com |
Amazon's search engine |
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Online catalogue for white papers. |
Graphical search engine |
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A search engine for firefighters |
Catalogue of search engines |
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webtaxi |
Dogpile |
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DMOZ. Open directory project. A catalogue site that uses thousands of online editors. |
Answers.com |
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A search engine that can look just at URLs. |
An international search engine that concentrates on vertical industry niches. |
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Military web site search engine |
Finds thousands of articles from magazines and journals |
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Searches more than 2000 online shops |
Searches Web pages with jokes, humor. |
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Multi-search screen |
Category searches. Meta-search engine |
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Searches for articles in magazines |
Search engine for biological data |
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Book search and price comparisons (for even out-of-print books.) |
Search engine that helps find the best sites |
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Academic information |
Concept search engine |
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Precision searching in Google |
Science search engine |
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Search (including blogs) |
Gigablast |
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MSN's search engine |
Google Scholar |
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Business search engine |
Search engine with visuals of web page |
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Desktop search engine tool |
Advice on which search engine to use |
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Search Engine with encyclopedia |
Answers from real people |
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Law search engine |
Personalized comic search |
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Document search engine |
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Search engine that you build with your own resource list |
Kosmix |
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Alacrastore - searches for business information |
Patent search engine |
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Science, technology search engine |
Askville |
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Hakia |
Finds out who has been changing wikipedia entries |
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US Government web sites search engine |
Quintura |
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Information technology vertical search engine |
Vertical business search engine |
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Search engine of vertical search engines |
Search engine for finance executives |
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Searches for books in nearby libraries |
Wiki Search |
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Science search |
Visual search engine |
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Visual search engine |
A search engine for message boards |
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Search mailing lists of interest |
Newsgroup/mailing list/discussion monitoring |
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Search engine community |
Contextual search of Wikipedia |
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Visual search |
Cuil |
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Multimedia Searching (Images and Sound)
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Image searching |
TV video search |
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Search for sound files |
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Fagan Finder |
Image search |
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Veoh |
YouTube |
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Joost |
Video - AOL |
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Video - Google |
Earth cams |
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Alta Vista's photo finder |
Searches for similar visuals |
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Searches for radio stations |
http://podscope.com/ Two search engines for iPod audio |
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MedHunt catalogue and crawler |
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Epinions. Online reviews |
Advice from live experts. |
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eHow. A site that tells you how to do things. Expert advice. |
A site that uses human experts to guide you through the web. |
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Experts Exchange |
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Consumer Complaint Sites (There are many of these. Here are a few)
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Consumeraffairs.com |
The Squeaky Wheel |
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Better Business Bureau |
Complaints against consumer companies |
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Get Satisfaction |
Bad Dealings |
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Complaint Center |
PlanetFeedback |
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