Popular Search Tools

• About.com - A listing of websites by category where each category is maintained by a volunteer expert in that category.


• AllTheWeb - A large, fast search engine.


• AltaVista - A large search engine that allows pinpoint searches using complicated queries.


• Ask - A newly redesigned version of the older AskJeeves and Teoma search engines it replaces. Ask has several interesting new features such as quick page previews and options to narrow your results.


• Google - An immense search engine which has a reputation for returning relevant results.


• HotBot - HotBot searches its own list of websites and can also show Google results and Ask Jeeves results as well.


• Illinois Clicks! - Illinois CLICKS! Is an information website with quality Internet resources, reviewed and selected by Illinois librarians.


• Librarian's Index to the Internet - An "annotated subject directory of more than 14,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries."


• Metacrawler - A search engine that searches many other search engines at once.


• WWW Virtual Library - A medium-sized listing of websites by category. The oldest site of its kind founded by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventer of the HTML language on which websites are based.


• Yahoo! - A search directory (listing of websites under categories) and engine that provides a variety of other services.