This link has been bookmarked by 614 people . It was first bookmarked on 02 Mar 2006, by James Lin.
-
09 Jun 19
-
13 Aug 18
-
26 Jul 16
-
13 May 16
-
29 Jun 15
-
23 Mar 15
sallyheroesList of search engines
critical Digital Literacy Library Intelligence Date Unknown Not Used
-
05 Nov 14
-
26 Aug 14
-
15 Feb 14
-
23 Oct 13
-
27 Apr 13
-
10 Apr 13
-
21 Feb 13
-
02 Aug 12
-
17 Jul 12
-
23 Jun 12
-
06 Jun 12
-
01 Jun 12
-
23 May 12
-
20 Feb 12
-
key words or phrases.
-
-
18 Feb 12
Anthony JonesMajor types of search engine
Keyword Search engines
You know what you're looking for, and can describe it with some key words or phrases.
Google is always a good bet, since it has the largest index
Yahoo Search is the second most popular keyword search engine
Bing may provide results if the other two don't work
Exalead is an excellent choice and makes a change from the big 3
SearchLion covers Web, images, news, video, blogs, twitter. Nice and easy.
WebNocular It's your bog standard web search engine, which covers web, image, video, news, blogs, wikis, childrens and so on.
Index or Directory based search engines
These search engines arrange data in hierachies from broad to narrow. Good if you need an overview of a subject or you're not entirely sure of what you want.
Yahoo Directory provides 14 main categories
Virtual libraries from Pinakes. Drill down for the content/sites you need
The Open Directory Project provides access to 16 main categories
Multi or Meta search engines
These search engines are useful if you need to run a comprehensive search quickly across a number of different engines, to compare results or to suggest search engines that you may not have tried before. The majority do a Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask search (GYMA, or GYM search depending), but there are differences.
Browsys 18 search engine options. Formerly intelways
Forelook for Google, Bing, Delicious, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Wolfram
Goofram for Google and Wolfram Alpha
Heapr for Google, Twitter, Wolfram Alpha, Wikipedia
Ixquick has a nunber of UK based engines in its collection
Izito 6+ standard free text search engines used
Joongel 10 engines in multiple categories
Kedrix Provides options for Bing, Yahoo, Twitter, Indian and Chinese engines.
Mamma been around for ever, good reputation
MyAllSearch You can choose from Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask (Jeeves), Yandex, Lycos, Metacrawler, Entireweb and DuckDuckGo.
Nginer covers various types of search and engines. Framed results
Scour GYM search, + vote and comment on results
Search!o wide variety of different engines; 10 in total
Searchboth Compare 2 search engines at once, eight options
Searchzooka allows for complex searches across 7 different engines. Worth a look.
Sputtr has 7 categories.
Soovle for Google, Wikipedia, Answers, YouTube, Ask, Yahoo, Amazon
Symbaloo visual and multi engine, add your own engines as well.
Trovando is a first rate choice and a personal favourite. 33 options
Whonu? Wide variety of resources, lots of options, impressive
Zuula 11 different search engine options
Visual results search engines
Rather than a simple textual list of results some search engines will provide content in a visual format. This is great if you want a change, or to view results differently. These engines also appeal to students and children.
Allplus uses a cluster graph
Cluuz provides network results
hashtagify.me This is a nice little search feature for hashtags on Twitter.
oSkope uses Amazon, ebay and Flickr images displayed as thumbnails
Quintura is an engine offering a tag cloud based on results
RedZ provides an arc of webpages you can flick through
Search-cube uses a cube of thumbnails
Simploos The method of displaying webpages is by horizontal scrolling, with an automatic sliding to make it simple to the searchers.
Spacetime is like RedZ but larger thumbnails
TouchGraph for Google
WebBrain displays a visual representation above, and links below
Yometa takes the results from Google, Yahoo and Bing and displays them in a Venn diagram
Category search engines
Some search engines will create categories for you to narrow or expand your search criteria. This is good if you don't want to think, or need some help in areas that you don't know that well.
Ask suggests different categories
Carrot Clustering is an engine which provides options in various categories
Exalead has related term suggestions and other methods of narrowing your results
Gigablast provides some suggested terms/phrases
Google sets creates terms from a few examples
iSeek provides topics, people, places, organisations, dates etc as categories.
iZito provides topics to narrow a search
Yippy, formally Clusty. Clouds, sources, sites, time.
Zapmeta gives users basic options to narrow searches
Blended results
There are some search engines that will try and blend a variety of results onto one page for you - websites, news, video, images and so on. Good for an overall view of a subject area. Unfortunately there are not very many of them!
Allplus for clusters, web results, news, images, video
SearchLion covers Web, images, news, video, blogs, twitter. Nice and easy, with a nice blended approach. -
17 Feb 12
-
22 Oct 11
-
02 Oct 11
-
01 Oct 11
-
28 Sep 11
Jayne DavidsonPhil Bradleys pages on which searchengine to use - excellent guide by Web2.0 expert
-
27 Sep 11
-
16 Sep 11
-
01 Sep 11
-
19 Aug 11
-
14 Aug 11
-
12 Aug 11
Serge Corbeil"Which search engine when?"
Liste de plusieurs engins de recherche disponibles
Phil Bradleysearchengines searchengine search engines tools web activité-A
-
08 Aug 11
-
05 Aug 11
Kay Cunningham'Search engines that help you find whatever you're looking for. If you know the kind of information that you want, this page will assist you in identifying good web search engines to use. '
-
16 Jun 11
Linda Dawes"Search engines that help you find whatever you're looking for. If you know the kind of information that you want, this page will assist you in identifying good web search engines to use."
-
12 Jun 11
-
15 May 11
-
27 Apr 11
-
17 Mar 11
Altism MsitlaSearch engines that help you find whatever you're looking for. If you know the kind of information that you want, this page will assist you in identifying good web search engines to use.
-
07 Jan 11
-
02 Jan 11
Tania ShekoPhil Bradley's search engine information - very extensive list with subheadings
Been looking at Carrot's clustering of search results. See @Philbradley's #searchengines list: http://t.co/8efoWr0BMz http://t.co/YYiCl5A6L6search web engines reference searchengines engine tools information information literacy philbradley
-
06 Dec 10
The Library Lincoln CollegeSearch engines that help you find whatever you're looking for
-
29 Oct 10
-
25 Oct 10
-
24 Sep 10
-
02 Sep 10
-
04 Jul 10
-
13 Jun 10
-
08 Jun 10
Information ResourcesProvides guidance on chosing the right search engine, depending on the type of search you are conducting
-
13 May 10
Karen Vitek"Search engines that help you find whatever you're looking for. If you know the kind of information that you want, this page will assist you in identifying good web search engines to use."
-
16 Apr 10
-
22 Mar 10
Paul JinksLong list of search engines with comments. Looks useful.
-
18 Feb 10
-
16 Dec 09
-
01 Dec 09
-
25 Nov 09
-
11 Sep 09
-
20 Aug 09
-
23 Jul 09
-
10 Jul 09
-
07 Jun 09
-
24 Apr 09
-
07 Apr 09
Neil InfieldInternet search information, techniques and Web 2.0 resources for the library and information professional community
-
31 Mar 09
-
27 Mar 09
-
02 Mar 09
-
01 Mar 09
-
28 Feb 09
-
13 Feb 09
-
22 Oct 08
Jayne DavidsonPhil Bradleys pages on which searchengine to use.
-
21 Oct 08
-
16 Sep 08
-
04 Aug 08
-
21 Jul 08
-
24 Jun 08
-
22 Jun 08
-
15 Jun 08
-
11 Jun 08
-
08 Jun 08
-
19 May 08
-
09 May 08
-
23 Apr 08
Ruth A Myers LibrarySearch engines that help you find whatever you are looking for. This is a collection of helpful resources to assist you in finding information.
-
diane kauppiSearch engines that help you find whatever you are looking for. This is a collection of helpful resources to assist you in finding information.
-
20 Apr 08
-
17 Apr 08
-
02 Apr 08
-
01 Apr 08
-
19 Mar 08
-
17 Mar 08
-
11 Mar 08
-
09 Mar 08
-
07 Mar 08
-
01 Mar 08
-
29 Feb 08
Page Comments
Would you like to comment?
Join Diigo for a free account, or sign in if you are already a member.