JEFFSelects: Internet Search Engines and Guides

Use a search engine to find Internet sites from all over the world and on any topic. TJU librarians have chosen some favorite search engines to get you started. Read about search engines to become an effective searcher, or recommend a site if your favorite isn't on our list.

Individual General Search Engines	Specialty Search Engines
These individual sites do their own unique web crawls: Ask Exalead Gigablast Google Live Search (Microsoft) Yahoo! Others search more than one search engine at a time (metasearch), or provide value-added interfaces and features: Dogpile - metasearch Ixquick - metasearch KartOO - for graphic presentation of results Mamma - metasearch	About - how-to columns written by a network of 500 "guides." Chmoogle - structure searching for free chemical information Google Book Search, for books in full text Google Scholar, for scholarly literature Kosmix - health, autos and travel Scirus - searches Web pages, journals, patents, pre-prints, and other resources in science, medicine and technology
Subject Guides	People, Products & Discussions
Medical Subject Indexes INFOMINE - a directory of scholarly resources Internet Public Library - subject collections	Pipl - impressive results from the deep web AnyWho - white and yellow pages Super Pages - yellow pages WhoWhere InfoPlease - daily almanac, with over 30,000 biographies Tile.Net - discussion lists, newsgroups, FTP Sites, & computer products vendors