A Research Guide for Students
By I. Lee
Chapter 2. Quick Click to Search Engines
and Research Guides
For anything and everything you want to know about
Canucks, check out The
Canadian Resource Page.
For a list of other useful URLs, go to Chapter 15. A Virtual Library of Useful URLs
Search Engines
denotes major search engine, tool, directory, or reference
Webpage.
IQ ratings from SearchIQ.
4anything.com
[http://www.4anything.com]
About.com (Mining Company)
(Metasearch)
[http://www.about.com] IQ-100
All4one (Metasearch)
[http://www.all4one.com] IQ-90
All-in-One (Metasearch)
[http://www.allonesearch.com]
All-the-Web (Metasearch)
[http://www.alltheweb.com]
Altavista [http://www.altavista.digital.com]
IQ-120
Altavista Canada [http://www.altavistacanada.com]
AOL NetFind [http://www.aol.com/netfind]
Ask Jeeves! (Metasearch)
[http://www.askjeeves.com] IQ-130
Ask Jeeves! for Kids [http://www.ajkids.com]
AskScott (Metasearch)
[http://www.askscott.com] IQ-105
Beaucoup (Metasearch)
[http://www.beaucoup.com] IQ-110
Better Brain (Metasearch)
[http://www.betterbrain.com] IQ-105
the Big Hub.com [http://www.thebighub.com]
IQ-110
Brightgate (Metasearch)
[http://www.brightgate.com] IQ-130
Britannica (Metasearch)
[http://www.britannica.com]
Canada.com [http://www.canada.com]
CANOE (Canadian Online Explorer) News & info site.
[http://www.canoe.ca]
CNET [http://search.cnet.com]
CUI W3 (Metasearch)
[http://cuiwww.unige.ch/meta-index.html]
C4 or Cyber411(Metasearch)
[http://www.c4.com]
IQ-140
Chubba (Metasearch)
[http://www.debriefing.com]
Debriefing (Metasearch)
[http://www.debriefing.com] IQ-90
dmoz - Open Directory Project [http://www.dmoz.org]
IQ-110
Direct Hit [http://www.directhit.com]
Directory Guide [http://www.directoryguide.com]
DogPile (Metasearch)
[http://www.dogpile.com] IQ-115
EuroSeek [http://euroseek.net]
Excite [http://www.excite.com]
IQ-100
Fast Search (Metasearch) [http://www.alltheweb.com]
FindLaw.LawCrawler [http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com]
FINDSPOT (Metasearch)
[http://www.findspot.com]
Go [http://infoseek.go.com]
Google (Metasearch)
[http://www.google.com]IQ-130
GoTo.com (Metasearch)
[http://www.goto.com]
GroupWeb.com (Directories)
[http://www.groupweb.com]
HotBot
[http://www.hotbot.com] IQ-120
Infind (InferenceFind)
(Metasearch) [http://www.infind.com/infind] IQ-150
Infohiway [http://www.infohiway.com]
IQ-80
Infoplease.com [http://www.infoplease.com]
Infoseek (Same as "Go" above)
[http://infoseek.go.com] IQ-70
Ixquick Metasearch
(Metasearch) [http://ixquick.com] IQ-140
LinkExchange Network
[http://www.linkexchange.com]
LookSmart [http://www.looksmart.com]
Lycos
[http://www.lycos.com] IQ-80
Macmillan [http://www.superseek.com]
Magellan [http://magellan.excite.com]
IQ-90
Mamma (Metasearch)
[http://www.mamma.com] IQ-120
MetaCrawler (Metasearch)
[http://www.go2net.com] IQ-105
Metafetcher (Metasearch)
[http://www.metafetcher.com]
MetaGopher (Metasearch)
[http://www.metagopher.com] IQ-135
MetaSearch (Metasearch)
[http://www.metasearch.com] IQ-105
Mining Company (Metasearch)
[http://www.miningcompany.com] IQ-100
The Mother of All Search Engines [http://www.mamma.com]
MSN (Microsoft) [http://search.msn.com]
MultiCrawl (Metasearch)
[http://www.multicrawl.com] IQ-105
Netscape [http://www.netscape.com]
Northern Light [http://www.nlsearch.com]
or [http://www.northernlight.com] IQ-100
Omniseek [http://www.omniseek.com/pageseek]
Popular Sites (Metasearch)
[http://www.popularsites.com] IQ-105
ProFusion (Metasearch)
[http://www.profusion.com] IQ-110
Proteus (Metasearch)
[http://www.thrall.org/proteus.html] IQ-110
RedeSearch (Metasearch)
[http://www.redesearch.com] IQ-145
Proteus (Metasearch)
[http://www.thrall.org/proteus.html] IQ-110
Savvy Search (Metasearch)
[http://www.savvysearch.com] IQ-105
Search.com [http://www.search.com]
Search Beat (Directory)
[http://www.search-beat.com]
Search Engines Galore (Metasearch)
[http://www.searchenginesgalore.com] IQ-130
Searchking.com [http://www.searchking.com]
Search Spaniel (Metasearch)
[http://www.searchspaniel.com]
Sherlockhound (Metasearch)
[http://www.sherlockhound.com] IQ-115
Scrub the Web [http://www.scrubtheweb.com]
Snap.com [http://www.snap.com]
Starting-Point [http://www.stpt.com]
IQ-100
StudyWeb - The Learning Portal [http://www.studyweb.com]
SuperSeek WebSearch (Metasearch)
[http://www.super-seek.com]
WebCrawler [http://www.webcrawler.com]
webtaxi.com (Metasearch)
[http://www.webtaxi.com]
whatUseek [http://www.whatuseek.com]
What's Nu [http://www.whatsnu.com]
Yahoo! (Directory)
[http://www.yahoo.com]
IQ-130
Yahoo! Canada [http://www.yahoo.ca]
Yahooligans! The Web Guide for Kids [http://www.yahooligans.com]
Click here for Links to Research
Guides
Last modified: 11 November 1999
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