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Name: Google
URL: www.google.com
Size: Not released, estimated 20 B+
Special Features: By far the most popular search engine Google uses a complicated mathematical analysis, calculated on more than a billion hyperlinks on the web, to return high-quality search results so you don't have to sift through junk. This analysis allows Google to estimate the quality, or importance, of every web page it returns. Makes heavy use of link popularity as a primary way to rank web sites. Also provides results for AOL, and Netscape. "Sponsored Links" are generated by allowing advertisers to bid for placement in this area based on relevant keywords.

Name: Teoma/Ask.com
URL: www.ask.com
Size: 2 billion+
Special Features: Instead of ranking results based upon the sites with the most links leading to them, Teoma analyzes the Web as it is organically organized—in naturally-occurring communities that are about or related to the same subject—to determine which sites are most relevant. Teoma is the only search technology that can locate communities on the Web within their specific subject areas, as they actually exist. And this allows us to finely tune our search process, providing more precise results. Provides results for Ask, Ask-Jeeves,

Name: AlltheWeb
URL: www.alltheweb.com
Size: 3.2 billion
Special Features: It's really big! Has special FTP, MP3, and Multimedia search features. Claims to be most up-to-date of all the search engines. Owned by Overture (formally GoTo) and provides results to AltaVista, MSN search. It's owned by Yahoo.

Academic/Scholarly Search Engines
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Name:Google Scholar
URL: scholar.google.com
Special Features: Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Just as with Google Web Search, Google Scholar orders your search results by how relevant they are to your query, so the most useful references should appear at the top of the page. This relevance ranking takes into account the full text of each article as well as the article's author, the publication in which the article appeared and how often it has been cited in scholarly literature. By going to the preferences you can set up Google scholar to show our links off campus.

Name: Windows Live Search Academics
URL: academic.live.com
Special Features: Although available to anyone, Windows Live Academic Search is designed to help students, researchers and university faculty conduct research using academic and scholarly journals. Although search results are free, the library must have a subscription to a journal or pay on a per-article basis to access the full text. To see if we have the article and determine how to find it click on the link "Full-text @ Buley Library". Unlike Google Scholar , which crawls the web for academic content, Windows Live Academic Search works closely with publishers and uses structured feeds to build its index. As such, all content accessed through the service comes directly from a trusted source—namely, the publisher of a scholarly journal. At present it is only possible to use this product on campus and get the library links. Off campusyou will see no library link. It is expected to be usable off campus in the next release.

2. Specialized Search Engines
Specialized search engines are designed to deal with some of the limitations of the regular search engines. They can often make searching much more efficient.

Name: Scitopia URL: www.scitopia.org/scitopia/ Description: Scitopia.org offers users a free federated vertical search service to retrieve the content provided by its partner scholarly societies, including recently published articles as well as digitized content that goes back as far as 1884. The site enables users to find newly published research almost immediately and enables easy searching of multiple sites with one search request. Subscribers to the partner society libraries and members of partner societies will be able to view the full text included in their subscriptions or memberships. Other users may access full text through a pay-per-view option.	Name: Vivisimo URL: www.vivisimo.com Special Features: A Multithreaded search engine that clusters search results into categories that are selected from the words and phrases contained in the search results themselves. Very neat and powerful. has many powerful advanced features
Name: Dogpile URL: www.dogpile.com Special Features: Dogpile uses innovative metasearch technology to search the Internet's top search engines, including Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, About, FAST, FindWhat, LookSmart, and many more. With one single click, Dogpile fetches the best results from the combined pool of the best search engines -- instead of results from just one single search engine. Very popular.	Name: FirstGov URL: www.firstgov.gov Special Features: FirstGov is the official U.S. Government portal to 47 million pages of government information, services, and online transactions which also features a topical index, online transactions, links to state and local government, options to contact your government, and other tools so you don't have to know the name of the government agency to get the information you want anytime you want it.
Name: RefDesk.com URL: www.refdesk.com Special Features: A huge collection of free reference sources on the web. This site is very comprehensive and heavily used.	Name: InfoSpace URL: www.infospace.com Special Features: Large number of databases for finding people and businesses. Includes reverse directories, public records, yellow and white pages.
Name: Scirus URL: www.scirus.com Special Features: Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 150 million science-specific Web pages, enabling you to quickly; pinpoint Scientific, Technical and Medical data on the Web, find the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles and journals, and locate university sites and scientists' home pages that other search engines miss.	Name: MusicSearch URL: www.musicsearch.com Special Features: MusicSearch is one of the largest Music-Only resources on the Internet with Over 20,000 Reviewed Listings and Growing!
	Name: ArtCyclopedia URL: www.artcyclopedia.com Special Features: An art only site with links by artists, movement, subject, etc. Tons of links to pictures and museum sites. Some commercial content, has won many awards.
Name: Thomas URL: thomas.loc.gov Special Features: Extensive full text government info including legislation, bills, committee information, the Congressional Record, judicial information and substantially more.	Name: FindLaw URL: www.findlaw.com Special Features: FindLaw is the highest-trafficked legal Web site, providing the most comprehensive set of legal resources on the Internet for legal professionals, businesses, students and individuals. These resources include Web search utilities, cases and codes, legal news, an online career center, and community-oriented tools, such as a secure document management utility, mailing lists, message boards and free e-mail.
Name: Biographical Dictionary URL: www.s9.com/biography/ Special Features: Brief biographies for 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.
Name: Search Engine Colossus URL:www.searchenginecolossus .com/ Special Features: International Directory of Search Engines. Search Engine Colossus offers you links to search engines and directories from 195 countries and 42 territories around the world!	Name: One World - nations Online URL: www.nationsonline.org/ Special Features: The One World Nations Online Project is a portal of gateways to the countries in this world, a reference directory and an electronic magazine. Each country has an entry with lists of websites and portals.
Name: American Memory Collections URL: lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ amhome.html Special Features: American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections. It is produced by the Library of Congress	Image Search Name: Google Image Search URL:http://www.google.com Special Features: Google's Image Search is the most comprehensive on the Web, with more than 330 million images indexed and available for viewing.. Google analyzes the text on the page adjacent to the image, the image caption and dozens of other factors to determine the image content. Google also uses sophisticated algorithms to remove duplicates and ensure that the highest quality images are presented first in your results.

3. Subject Directories

Name: Looksmart URL: www.looksmart.com Size: 4.0 million Special Features: The LookSmart serves as a clearinghouse providing Web directories to other sites/portals. It does not include ratings and inclusion and ranking can be based on payment. Owned by same company that does WiseNut	Name: Open Directory URL: dmoz.org Size: Biggest Special Features: One of the larger directory databases it is newer than Yahoo! and seems to have fewer dead links. Open Directory powers the core directory services for the Web's largest and most popular search engines and portals, including Netscape Search, AOL Search, Google, Lycos, HotBot, DirectHit, and hundreds of others.
Name: Virtual Library URL: vlib.org/ Size: NA Special Features: The VL is the oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the web itself. Unlike commercial catalogs, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the web.	Name: Yahoo URL: www.yahoo.com Size: 2nd Biggest Special Features: Based on user submitted URLs, no evaluation, more than 100 editors, most popular subject directory. Searches its own contents and if no results goes to a Google search.
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