Best Internet Search Mechanisms

Internet Search

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Use this InfoToday article to learn the ins & outs and stay abreast of top search tools.
Searchengineshowdown rate all search sites, metasearchers, directories, has search tips.
Berkeley offers a comprehensive tutorial.
The Universiteit Leiden (Netherlands) has compiled this exhaustive list of specialty search and other tools.
About.Com's search page has articles, hints - updated regularly; see invisible web resources.
Highbeam (formerly Elibrary) and Libraryspot search periodicals, books, maps, almanacs, all kinds of references ...
See InvisibleWeb, CompletePlanet for links into the 'invisible web' or latest Gary Price presentation on Web Search.

All Purpose Search	Also see my huge compendium of search tools
Search Bug - Surfwax - Answers.Com	Search resources; desk references, publications, tech material, travel, maps, financials, entertainment ... Surfwax does search engines, invisible web ... Answers.Com answers questions ... Highbeam ($) searches published sources.

Searching the Web	Findspot discusses advanced features of key web search engines.
Dogpile - search multiple engines. Clusty clusters results.
Quintera, Google, MSN	All with different takes on search and different tools.

Yahoo, MEL, BUBL, The WWW Virtual Library	Yahoo is the original directory; tThe WWW VL is by subject experts; the IPL, MEL, BUBL, Search Engine Guide have categories and specialty sites - the library model.

Searching for Software, other Files and through FTPspace

CNet Download.Com -- Tucows; software libraries, shareware & freeware.

Searching for People, Businesses ( see Pandia's pages and/or About.Com for hints )
Pipl, Peoplewefind, Yahoo, Searchbug - email, phone/address, reverse lookup; people, businesses, govts in US.
Canada 411, Worldpages, Whowhere (Lycos),- international; Internet800 - tollfree.
KNOWX, USSearch, People Find, FindaFriend, Locate America search public records . (part free/mostly $$)
Search Netsol for U.S. domain information, Geektools too; Allwhois for worldwide coverage.

Shopping Related
Big Yellow is a huge Yellow pages; Searchenginewatch lists shopping search engines
Prices - CNET for electronics, AddAll & Bookfinder for books, MySimon, PricingCentral, Froogle for everything.
More on shopping - Become.com or Catalog City for product research, Cairo or Shoplocal for local stores,

Searching Usenet Newsgroups, Mailing Lists, Blogs - News2Web accesses Usenet w/browser.
Google Groups for usenet; LSoft for listservs; Boardreader for message boards.
TileNet searches for newsgroups, lists, ftp sites, computer companies ...
Blogdigger, Clusty search through blogs

Miscellaneous Others - or find an appropriate forum or usenet newsgroup to ask for advice.
Picsearch, Google, Yahoo, Ditto - image search; Mediabuilder - image warehouse; About.Com - many image resources.
Brightqube for stock photos.
Yahoo. Lycos, Alta Vista, Findsounds for sounds; MP3meta and Lycos for music.
Webseek- image/video search/catalog; LawCrawler, Findlaw- legal stuff; Medical Search; Pinstripe- industry info
Webopedia for technical terms; SearchEdu and SearchMil for specific domains. BriansBuzz for windows help.
Archive - old websites - search it. Brainboost answers questions; Google Search by Numbers - tracking, VINs, etc
Mapquest- custom maps/travel directions in the U.S.; International Stats- US Census; Useful databases- Melissa;
Infomine for scholarly collections; the Social Science Gateway; Company Info- TradingDay, 10KWizard;
US Govt: Google, FirstGov, IIT Library; News- NewsNow, Google has news alerts +adv search, Topix is terrific.