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•All the Web, All the Time
•Apple Excite
Apple resources and search tool.
•Alta Vista: Main Page AltaVista: Translations
Answers - Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia
Answers.com is a free reference search service, created to provide you with instant answers on over a million topics. As opposed to standard search engines that serve up a list of links for you to follow, Answers.com displays quick, snapshot answers with concise, reliable information.
•Arriba Vista: The Image Searcher
•AskERIC
ERIC is the Educational Resourtces Information Center, a federally-funded national information system that provides, through its 16 subject-specific clearinghouses, a variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues.
•Ask Jeeves!
•Ask Jeeves for Kids
Berit's Best - Kid Sites
Berit's Best Sites for Children lists a thousand safe, top-notch fun, and educational sites.
•C/Net Shareware
Search of free and shareware programs through C/Net.
Dictionary.com
Free dictionary and theasaurus. Also contains dictionaries for French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish, Chinese, Dutch, Japanese, Korean and Russian. Links to other online dictionaries.
•Direct Hit
•Dogpile

Doteasy.com
Bannerless Free Web Hosting for Individuals & Small Businesses.
Educational Sites: ;Search
Excite!
FindArticles
Advertises itself as the web's first free article search.
•GO Network
•Google
•Google Accessible Search

Designed for users with blindness or visual impairments.
•Google Directories
Helpful when one isn't exactly sure of what they are searching for or what something is called.

Google Image Search
Google Search: U.S. Government (Uncle Sam)

Called the "Uncle Sam" search. An excellent search tool focused on information pertaing to the U.S. Government
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•Healthatoz: Search Engine for Health and Medicine
Healthline - Connect to Better Health Healthline is a way to find, understand, and manage information about consumer health. Mission is to empower health information seekers by providing them with a guided search experience.
HotBot
Indie (Integrated Network of Disability Information and Education)
As name implies, a search site for disability information.
•INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
INFOMINE is intended for the introduction and use of Internet/Web resources of relevance to faculty, students, and research staff at the univeristy level. It is a virtual library and reference tool that includes databases, electronic journals, etc.
•Infoseek Internet Search
•Internet Address Finder
•InvisibleWeb
Index of interactive databases that may not show up in a normal search engine's results
•Ixquick Metasearch
Kartoo

KartOO is a meta search engine that shows graphically the results it gets. Its technology extends to products oriented towards information retrieval within the corporate world.
KidsClick! Web Search
KidsClick! was created by a group of librarians as a logical step in addressing concerns about the role of public libraries in guiding their young users to valuable and age appropriate web sites.
•Kid's Tools for Searching the Internet
Children's search engines and directories on a single page.
•Live Home Page
•Local Search
•Lycos, Inc. Home Page
•MedWeb: Search Tool
Health search tool from Emory University.
•MetaCrawler Searching
•Netscape Search
NoodleTools - Smart Tools, Smart Research

A tool for locating the most appropriate search engine. Users set the parameters for their search by answering simple questions: who are you, kind of results desired, timelines of the information, etc. Suggests a set of appropriate links.

•Northern Light Search
•Open Directory Project

Helpful when one isn't exactly sure of what they are searching for or what something is called.

•Searchopolis (Filtered Search Engine)
Education search and resource tool.

•SHAREWARE.COM: Find Shareware on the Internet
•Snap
Search tool and news through NBCi.
•Specialized Search Engines & Directories

All of these links lead to sites that contain specific information that may not turn up when you do a general search of the Web using Altavista, Yahoo, and other search engines and directories.
•Starting Points for Internet Exploration
•Study Web - Links for Learning

Homework Companion provides quick access to an encyclopedia, dictionary, and thesaurus; plus maps, calculators, converters and more!
Translation - Free and Professional
Free or Professional translations online. Word or longer passages.

Vivisimo
Search engine that automatically clusters documents according to categories.
•WebCrawler Searching
•WhoWhere?!
Lycos search for email/phone addresses
WorldLingo - Free Online Translator
WorldLingo's free online translator provides text and web page language translations in Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Russian, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese and Korean.
•Yahoo
•Yahoo Directories
Helpful when one isn't exactly sure of what they are searching for or what something is called.
•Yahooligans!
Web guide for kids.
yourDictionary.com
yourDictionary.com provides a comprehensive and authoritative portal for language and language-related products and services on the web with more than 1800 dictionaries with more than 250 languages.

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