Karen Vitek's List: Alternate Search Engines

RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.

Sweet Search is designed as a search engine for students. It searches only credible web sites approved by Internet research experts. When you complete a search with Sweet Search your search terms are highlighted.

ipl2 is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment. To date, thousands of students and volunteer library and information science professionals have been involved in answering reference questions for our Ask an ipl2 Librarian service and in designing, building, creating and maintaining the ipl2's collections. It is through the efforts of these students and volunteers that the ipl2 continues to thrive to this day.

In January 2010, the website "ipl2: information you can trust" was launched, merging the collections of resources from the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII) websites. The site is hosted by Drexel University's College of Information Science & Technology, and a consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science are involved in developing and maintaining the ipl2.

KidsClick! is a web search site designed for kids by librarians- with kid-friendly results! It is run by the Library Services department of Kent State University in Ohio.

Wolfram|Alpha is a computational knowledge engine. It can help you to understand how to solve math problems. When you enter a math problem it can show you the steps involved to solve it.

Click on "Examples" to find out how you can use Wolfram|Alpha. You can create your own account at this site to save your favorites.

"One of the hardest parts about doing academic research on the Internet is figuring out where to start! A search engine or subject portal is usually the first thing to try, but which are the most useful for your research need? Fill in the short form below, and we'll point you in the right direction. For every question, you can check any number of boxes (or none)."

INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.

INFOMINE is librarian built. Librarians from the University of California, Wake Forest University, California State University, the University of Detroit - Mercy, and other universities and colleges have contributed to building INFOMINE. We hope our service is useful and would appreciate any comments.

Everyone has different reading abilities. Some people searching the web are university professors and others are 5 year old children. Twurdy has been created to provide people with access to search results that suit their own readability level.

Kigose is a multiple search engine specifically designed for students (kids and teenagers) in primary and secondary schools. It can search the web, images, videos, dictionary, games, and many other categories from other websites.