Search Engines

Rather than just list every search engine around, this is my list of the better ones.

• Google - citation based, the more linked web sites are at the top of the list.
  • Google Groups - search USENET articles.
  • USask at Google - search the Google database of University of Saskatchewan pages.
  • Google Scholar - search scholarly publications
• Alta Vista - one from the early days, very flexible for including and excluding urls or links or words; very broad in coverage.
• Preview Seek - a newer s.e. with some previewing capability
• WiseNut - ranking based search engine
• The "Wayback Machine" - internet archive. Not really a search engine, per se, but an archive of how pages looked in the past. Use it to find something that "used to be there".

Other Search Engines

• IXQuick - metasearch engine: search many s.e.'s and return a sorted list of hits
• All 4 One metasearch engine
• KartOO - metasearch engine with graphical relationship view.
• ShareWare.Com - search for shareware software
• Feedster - blog searches
• WorldPages - map locator
• Open Directory Project - A Yahoo-like directory
• Internet Movie DataBase - search for film/tv
• SciRus - search journals as well as the web
• ZoomInfo PeopleFinder
• Ditto Image search engine
• Canadian branded engines:
  • Google Canada
  • Canada 411 Phone numbers et al.
  • Postal Code Lookup
  • MSN
  • Yahoo
  • Alta Vista
  • CanSeek
  • Search both (Yahoo! + Google)
• IFER Search