| If you want to search for... |
Choose... |
| Audio/Music |
akoo.com | AllTheWeb
| AltaVista
| CNET
MP3 Search | Dogpile
| FindSounds.com
| FtpFind | Genie
Knows | HotBot
SuperSearch | Ithaki
| Ixquick | Lycos
Music Downloads | Mamma
| Lycos Multimedia
Search | MSN
Search Advanced Search | Researchville:
Audio | SearchTurtle.com
| Singingfish |
| Date last modified |
AllTheWeb
Advanced Search | AltaVista
Advanced Search | AltaVista
Search Assistant | Google
Advanced Search | HotBot
| MSN
Search Advanced Search |
| Domain/Site/URL |
AllTheWeb
Advanced Search | AltaVista
Search Assistant | Google
Advanced Search | HotBot
SuperSearch | MSN
Search Advanced Search | Namedroppers.com
| SearchEdu.com | Virtual
Learning Resources Center |
| Geographic location |
AltaVista
Search Assistant | Clickey
| Fossick | HotBot
SuperSearch | Mama
Power Search | MetaCrawler
Power Search | MSN
Search Advanced Search | Northern
Light Geosearch |
| Images |
AllTheWeb
| AltaVista
| The Amazing
Picture Machine | Ditto
| Dogpile | FtpFind
| Genie Knows | Google
Image Search | HotBot
| Ithaki | Ixquick
| Lycos Multimedia
Search | Mamma | MSN
Search Advanced Search | Picsearch
| Researchville:
Images | Search
Online | SearchTurtle.com
| Visoo | Yahoo!
News Image Gallery |
| Language |
AllTheWeb | AltaVista
| Google
Language Tools | HotBot
| MSN Search
Advanced Search |
| Multimedia & video |
akoo.com | All
TheWeb | AltaVista
| Dogpile | FtpFind
| Genie Knows | HotBot
| Lycos Multimedia
Search | Mamma | Researchville:
Video | Search
Online | SearchTurtle.com
| Singingfish |
| Programming Language |
HotBot
SuperSearch | MSN
Search Advanced Search |
| Proper name |
AltaVista | HotBot |
| Title |
AllTheWeb
Advanced Search | AltaVista
| AltaVista
Search Assistant | Google
Advanced Search | HotBot
| iLOR | Mamma
| Virtual Learning
Resources Center |
| Search logic |
| If you want to use... |
Choose... |
| Boolean operators |
AltaVista
Advanced Search | Dogpile
| HotBot | Ixquick
| metaEUREKA | ProFusion |
Full Boolean logic with parentheses
e.g., behavior and (cats or felines) |
AltaVista
Advanced Search | HotBot
| Ixquick | MSN
Search Advanced Search |
| Implied Boolean +/- |
Most search engines offer this option |
| Boolean logic by template terminology |
AllTheWeb
Advanced Search | AltaVista
Search Assistant | AOL
Search Options | Google
Advanced Search | HotBot
| iLOR
Advanced Search | Lycos
Advanced Search | Metor
| MonkeySweat | MSN
Search Advanced Search |
| Proximity searching |
AltaVista
Advanced Search | Google
[by default] | Ixquick |
| Search options |
| If you want.. |
Choose... |
| Alternative search terms |
SurfWax | Turbo10 |
| A user fill-in template |
AltaVista
Search Assitant | Google
Advanced Search | HotBot
| Lycos Advanced
Search | metaEUREKA
| Metor | MSN
Search Advanced Search | ProFusion
Advanced | Virtual
Learning Resources Center |
| Case sensitivity |
AltaVista |
| Search within existing results |
AltaVista | HotBot
| Lycos |
| Search for documents similar to those in existing results |
AltaVista | Google
| iLOR | ProFusion |
| Retrieve results on related searches |
HotBot | Ixquick
| Lycos | Teoma |
| Truncation |
AltaVista | Ixquick |
| Automatic truncation |
HotBot | Lycos |
| Your search stated in plain English |
AltaVista | Ask
Jeeves | Ithaki | Ixquick |
| Translation of pages retrieved as search results, or any text or Web
page, to and from selected languages |
Babel Fish |
| An exact phrase within quotations |
Most search engines offer this option |
| An exact phrase from a template choice |
Many search templates offer this. For example: AllTheWeb
Advanced Search | Fazzle
| Fossick | Google
Advanced Search | HotBot
| MonkeySweat | MSN
Search Advanced Search |
| Multiple search tools searched simultaneously with duplicate records
removed |
C4 | Chubba
| Copernic | Fazzle
| Fossick | Ithaki
| Ixquick | Mamma
| MetaCrawler | ProFusion
| Search Online
| Query Server |
SearchTurtle.com
| SurfWax | more... |
| Search Results |
| If you want... |
Choose... |
| Results based on linking, i.e., number of links from highly rated Web
pages |
Alexa Web Search
| Google | Google
Web Directory | Teoma |
| Results based on popularity, i.e., selections by other searchers or
rankings by engines/directories |
Alexa Web Search
| AOL Search | Ixquick
| Search Online
| Teoma | ZapMeta |
| Concept processing applied to your search |
AllThe Web | Ask
Jeeves | Atomica
| Guidbeam | Infonetware
| Kartoo | Query
Server | SurfWax
| Teoma | Vivisimo |
| Results grouped by concept and/or type of site (a "horizontal"
rather than a single vertical list of results) |
AllThe Web | Guidbeam
| iBoogie | Infonetware
| Kartoo | Query
Server | Teoma | Turbo10
| Vivisimo |
| Clustering of results into one hit per site with the option to see all |
AllTheWeb | AltaVista
| HotBot | WISEnut |
| Queries stored at the site and notification of new results |
Karnak | TracerLock |
| Queries stored by the search service for repeat searches |
Copernic |
| Specialty Searches |
| If you want to search... |
Choose... |
| The Deep Web (not covered by search spiders) |
Atomica | Complete
Planet | Direct
Search | Fazzle |
Google | iBoogie
| The InvisibleWeb
| Invisible-web.net
| Lycos
Directory: Searchable Databases | MetaIQ
| ProFusion | Search.Com
| Search Engines and
News | Subject
Directory of Search Engines
[Many search engine sites offer deep Web searches. For example, see Ixquick] |
| Files in FTP sites (text, multimedia, software, etc.) |
FtpFind | Ftpsearchengines.com
| Oth Net |
| News (multiple sources searched simultaneously) |
AlltheWeb: News
| AltaVista - News
| FindNews.org | InfoGrid
| News Is Free | NewsNow
| NewsTrove.com | Pandia
Newsfinder | RocketInfo
| The WorldNews
Network |
| Usenet newsgroup postings |
Chubba | Gripe.com
| Ithaki | MetaCrawler
| metaEUREKA | Google
Groups | Yahoo!
Search Options |
| Reference sources (dictionaries, encyclopedias, e-mail and address
lookups, calculators, quotations, news, government info, statistics etc.) |
Reference
Collection (U Albany Libraries) |
| Professionally maintained directories |
About | Academic
Info | BUBL LINK
| INFOMINE | Librarians'
Index to the Internet | Resource
Discovery Network | Scout
Report Archives | Virtual
Learning Resources Center | WWW
Virtual Library | more... |
| Directories maintained by volunteers |
JoeAnt | Open
Directory Project (DMOZ) |
