Search Engines
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- Alta Vista- one of the earlier engines with local sites around the world.
- Complete Planet - finds sets of deep databases
- Direct Search - useful for 'hidden' sites
- .Dogpile- one of the meta-search engines - it uses more than one engine to find results.
- Environmental Organisation Web Directory- one of the more specialised search tools
- Excite- another original still worth using.
- Fast Find- a very fast search tool.
- Google- after a recent re-fit this is now seen as one of the best engines to use
- HotBot- good for for unusual material Infomine - university-focussed search engine
- Invisible Net - one of the new sites aiming to uncover 'hidden' databases.
- Lycos- good for images etc.
- Scirus- specialist science search engine
- SciSeek- Science search engine (more like a portal site) with the capacity to collect votes and reviews for each site.
- Scout Report for Science and Engineering - US bi-weekly on-line report covering all the sciences (and their webpages). Good news section. Searchable database.
- Search Engine Watch. Keeps track of all the search engines out there.
- Search
For Science-
new special site for science
Teoma- new engine that can group results and suggest other key sites. Very good. - Turbo10 - searches for the 'deep net' i.e. hidden resources