Search Engines & Directories

Kid's Image Search Tools | KidsClick! | Classroom Clipart | Citing Images & Pictures | Encyclopedia of Life | Picsearch | Pics4learning- copyright friendly & provides correctly formatted bibliography! | Science Photo Library | Picanswers-upload a photo to find out what it is! | Encyclopedia of Life for photos & drawings of creatures. Wikimedia for images, music & videos for educational purposes but must attribute! Google Image Search-can now limit search to photos by doing Advanced Search.

Search Engines & Directories A-Z | Searching w/ Success Tutorial | You Quote it, You Note It! tutorial | Student Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism | Choose the Best Search for your Need | Boolify |
Joyce Valenza's WebQuests about Search Tools and Evaluating Sites
(Visit Basic Search Strategies) and Choosing the Best Search Engine or Noodlequest if you are new to doing searches.
Search Engine Features Chart | Search Engine Glossary | Search Engine Definitions | Glossary of Internet & Web Jargon | Search Engine Terms | Search Terms Glossary | Model Information Retrieval Glossary

Search Engines, Directories, Indexes, Databases Invisible Web Access & Clip Art

Clip Art: (Read "Terms of Use" before using images) Visit "Art Right and Wrongs" to learn about copyright laws, trademarks and image licensing.

Pandia Powersearch all in one list of search engines and directories!

A9 will search books(via Amazon.com's Look Inside the Book facility) as well as the internet- which means that you can at least locate lots of potentially usefully
books in one fell swoop, without needing to get every single one off the library shelves!
ABC Giant clip art for backgrounds, textures, 3D balls, page dividers, fonts and more
About About.com hires people skilled in individual disciplines to collect and review resources useful to students and teachers. Not only do they recommend sites, but they also create their own short lesson plans and encyclopedic definitions in popular areas.
Absolute Web Graphics Archive
Academic Reference & Research Index a gateway site to help locate valuable databases of the "invisible web," Accessing tens of thousands of academic reference and research sites recommended by teachers and librarians!
Ah-ha.com Billed as a kid-safe service powered by FAST Search, though some adult content does slip through. Also allows paid listings to appear at the top of its results.
All Clip Art Site thousands of 1000's of clipart, animations, images, web graphics and more.
AlltheWeb has one of the largest indexes of the web it also offers large multimedia and mobile/wireless web indexes, available from its site, also known as FAST search, real-time indexing of newsstories from a carefully selected group of over 3,000 online sources. Other new features include advanced analysis to help refine queries, dynamic clustering of search results, and an easy-to-use customizationwizard. AllTheWeb.com search has snuck up on all of the major search engines with new features, speed and customization capabilities, and is now a viable challenger to pack-leader Google. FAST Search and Transfer has released Alchemist, a tool that lets you customize the look and feel of your result pages from AllTheWeb.com. The
company also plans to use the tool to separate content and design to allow
for customized presentation for various devices such as for visually or
hearing impaired users, Palms, etc., according to FAST spokesperson Jami
Axelrod.
Altavista AltaVista now offers an "education search" which allows you to search over 20 million pages' worth of college and university sites. Type a question, a phrase enclosed by quotes, plus and minus or Boolean searches. Family filter option. Also, a multimedia family filter may be enabled on the AltaVista Text Only search engine.
Altavista Image Search
Amazing Picture Machine Graphical resources on the Internet.
Animation Central Original animations organized by categories such as sports, computers, books, Important: The categories are on the left side of the screen.
The Animation Factory Over 15,000 original animations free for use on your personal web pages and email.
Animation Online Create Free Animated Banners and Buttons Instantly
Anne's School Days
Answers.com Answers.com provides information on over a million topics, using over 100 reference sources, including Wikipedia, Columbia University Press, and Who2. The search is natural language, just put in your question.
Argos for finding sites related to the study of ancient and medieval worlds.
Argus ClearingHouse Now Internet Public Library.
Art by Cheryl Make sure to follow the terms of use policy. (A link back to her site is required.
Asiaco A searchable index of Asia-related topics on the Internet.
AskEric The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), a national information system funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
Ask Jeeves recently introduced two features that enhance its long-established question-and-answer format. One tries to recast search terms into a question that can be answered on the Web; the other offers suggestions to broaden or narrow the search. Picture searchers too.
Ask Jeeves for Kids Ask Jeeves is a unique service where you enter a question, and Ask Jeeves tries to point you to the right web page that provides an answer. At Ask Jeeves For Kids, answers have been vetted for appropriateness. Also, if Ask Jeeves cannot answer a question, it pulls results from various search engines in its metacrawler mode. At Ask Jeeves For Kids, no site that is on SurfWatch's block list will be listed.
AskJeeves Images Ask search results contain a thumbnail of the image found, with links to information about the image (including direct image URL and URL of the page where the image was found), and the option to save the image (which apparently you can do without being logged into MyJeeves. Do they stay for the life of a cookie or a browser session?)
About.com an excellent collection of sites, each maintained by an expert in that subject
Awesome Clip Art for Educators
Awesome Library . Over 18,000 carefully reviewed sites have been classified into a subject directory, specifically organized for teachers, students and parents. Information can be found by browsing or searching.
Babelplex Bilingual Google Search allow you to specify a query word in one language, and get the results for that query in both the original language and the language you specify. From the beginning page you specify the word for which you want to search, and the language into which you want the search to be translated. You can translate from one of several languages into one of any other languages. I tried searching for chinois, searching for the French query in English. My result was a split screen of Google results with the results for the French search of the French word on the left and the English search of the translated word on the right. Down at the bottom is another framed area allowing you to do a different search and perhaps pick another search engine (like Yahoo) to do it on. If you search a word that the Babelfish translator doesn't recognize, the system burps and you get a Babelfish error in the right frame. (from ResearchBuzz)
Bar Gifs bars and lines for web pages.
Beaucoup Find things on the Invisible Web, an index of searchable databases for education and reference.
Best Information on the Net Chosen by librarians at St. Ambrose University, lists resources by majors.
BigChalk Evaluated and organized 100,000 links on over 10,000 subjects and updated daily.
Billy Bear's Free Clipart for Kids original clip art and fun fonts , some free some available for purchase.
Blinkx searches more than seven million hours of video and is the largest repository of digital video on the Web
The Boolean Machine See how Boolean searches work.
BrainBoost BrainBoost is a Question Answering search engine. It was specifically designed to answer questions, asked in plain English. BrainBoost queries multiple search engines to retrieve potentially relevant documents related to the question. It then downloads each document and analyzes its sentence structure, looking for the very best sentence(s) that answer the original question. BrainBoost outputs actual sentences extracted from web pages. The BrainBoost engine determines that these sentences are potential answers to the original question.
Britannica Claims to be the Web's best search.
BUBL LINK catalogue of selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas
Childsafe Search Engines List from Safekids.com.
Classroom Clipart This site contains a large (13,700) collection of photographs, clipart, and historical images designed for use for educational purposes. Searchable or browse by topical areas
Clipart ETC Site Map Great site with alphabet, history math and other educational clip art.
ClipArt.Com The net's best clipart, font, photo and web graphic links. Educational Clip Art From Teacher files.com.
Clip Art for Libraries
Clipart 4 Schools Organized into categories. The site has clipart and animations. You can even search within categories. Some categories are music, food, outdoors (which includes sports), entertainment, cartoons, animals, people, agriculture, landscape, nature, international, computers, email, and education. Can choose number of images to display on page and can sort alphabetically, by popularity, etc.
Clip Art Searcher Search for Clip art on this specialized search engine.
Clip Art Connection more free graphics
Clip Art Gallery from Discovery.com, a topical index of original and well-drawn images with permission for non-profit use of a certain number of images
Clip Art Guide
Clip Art Hotlist School related links to graphics & backgrounds
Clip Art Index arranged by topic, excellent holiday clip art
Clip Art List from Shambles
Clip Art Warehouse you'll find literally thousands of gif animations, simply click on any of the categories below. Once you've clicked on a category you'll be shown a list of the available animations with description, file size and dimensions.
ClipsAhoy school & education related clip art
Clusty categorizes the hits from each search, producing a kind of table of contents of results.
Clyde Cox Clip Art Bonanza
Collect Britain Over 90,000 images and sounds from the UK and beyond," from the British Library's holdings, including images of illuminated manuscripts, hundreds of maps of Britain from 800-1600, "1,800 printed items from everyday 19th century life," rare items from their stamp collections, recordings of English dialects, and much more.
Complete Planet The Deep Web directory of over 70,000 searchable databases and specialty search engines.
CoolArchive CoolArchive has over 300 animations, 120 original backgrounds, over 1000 free clipart images in 30 categories. Some categories are aircrafts, animals, entertainment, computers, music, nature, sports & games, vehicles. You can even edit the images online using the site's free image editor. It will enable you to rotate, crop, resize, and to add effects like color changes or making the image look like a button.
Copyright-Free Photo Archives
Corbis The place for pictures on the Internet, stock photographs and pictures.
CyberDewey The Dewey Decimal Classification is comprised of 10 Classes (Generalities, Philosophy, Religion, Social Science, Language, Natural Science, Technology, Art, Literature, and History). Each class is further subdivided into ten Divisions, and each Division into ten Sections. This page displays the one hundred Divisions, each of which is displayed on a subpage. The numbers in parentheses show the number of links in each Division.
CyberSleuth Kids An Internet search guide especially for K-12 students.
Daily Clip Art is a free clip art site with images related to animals, flowers, food, music, sports, weddings and other categories. You can browse the website or sign up to receive a new clip art image daily, that can be used in your web site, schoolwork, presentations, and other projects.
Daypop From the main page you can enter a query and optionally specify whether you want to search news sites, Weblogs, or both (Daypop says it indexes over 1000 news sites and Weblogs each day.) Search results include the title of a site, brief excerpt, and a cache link.
Digital Librarian A librarian's choice of the best of the Web.
Dibdabdoo The Dibdabdoo database was created by a parent interested in keeping kids safe online. Links to the Dibdabdoo database are not added through software that crawls the Internet and adds pages indiscriminately. According to the site, Dibdabdoo is a Meta engine that crawls only those sites that have been reviewed by humans and declared to be kid/teen safe. Included at the site are games and fun stuff as well as comics with characters that are based on the personalities of the author's children.
Discovery School Clip Art Gallery Discovery School now makes it easy to add graphics to your next project, whether it's for home or school. Choose from hundreds of original clip art pieces, including animations!
Ditto Fast and fun, this family friendly search engine differs from others by allowing users to visually navigate the Web. After entering a keyword or phrase, this search engine provides a relevant list of sources through photographic images, allowing users to see where they are going before they actually get there.
dmoz-see Open Directory below
Dogpile is now combining results from MSN Search, Google, Yahoo, and Ask Jeeves.
Dr. Alice Christie's Web Tool Kit school gifs
Education World Over 500,000 sites of interest to educators. Browsable or searchable, with the ability to narrow in by appropriate grade level. Launched in spring 1996.
Electronic Journal Miner This page compiles catalog entries for over eight-thousand electronic journals. The fields indexed include title, URL, abstract, Library of Congress (LC) subject headings, publication frequency, and contact information. Search by keyword, title, or subject. Toggle filters to limit searches to free and peer-reviewed journals. Browse by title or LC subject headings.
Encart a For learning and research.
eSnips | Things you find on the web-save real web content not just links: relevant paragraphs and images you find on any web site. Things from your computer-documents, presentations, anything you want to access from anywhere or share with others.Your photos and audio or video clips Upload as many as you like, right from your desktop. It’s all securely stored online, accessible from any computer and simple to share with anyone you choose.......It even tells you who’s seen what!
eThemes Educational resources of child-friendly web sites that can be searched alphabetically, by grade level or by keyword.
Factbites a cross between a search engine and an encyclopedia.
Family Friendly Search A meta-search engine just for kids. The interface allows simultaneous searching of kid-safe engines such as Yahooligans, AOL Kids, and KidsClick. Results display the names of the search engine that found the hit, and, more importantly, a translation option using Altavista’s Babelfish technology.
Family Source family safe web pages.
FAST Search Same as AlltheWeb, offensive content reduction option available under "Customize".
FindArticles will give you the full text of articles.
FindSounds for over 100 downloadable free sound clips of sound effects & ,usical instrument samples.
FindSpot allows students to choose from a variety of engines, including Google and directories. The site includes basic search techniques for each of the
tools in a quick-reference format.
FirstGov for Kids This U.S. government interagency Kids' Portal provides links to Federal kids' sites along with some of the best kids' sites from other organizations all grouped by subject. Look for state report
information as well as music and transportation.
FlamingText Free online tool for generating custom webpage graphics
FlickrStorm | FlickrStorm is a better search for Flickr! It works by looking for more than what you enter to find related and more relevant images.
42eXplore | Clicking a topic brings up a page containing The Basics -- both an easy and hard definition of the selected topic; 4 2 eXplore -- four subtopics, each with a number of educationally appropriate links; Be An Explorer -- several suggested activities related to the selected topic, along with online resources necessary for completing each activity.
Fotosearch The Fotosearch image search engine saves you time by allowing you to search over 700,000 images from over 50 stock photography, illustration, and video footage publishers at one website.
4YEO.com We offer you linkware original graphics, page sets, icons, animated gifs, fonts & dingbats and more for your personal homepages and projects. Look for anything you may need, and you will find it here!
FreeFoto FreeFoto.com is one of the largest collections of free photographs for private non-commercial use on the Internet. The comprehensive, yet easy to navigate site features 50 main sections with over 1000 sub headings.
Free Gifs & Animations Browse for Gifs, Animations, Backgrounds, Accents and more using the menu on the left.
FunDraw is a free web-based drawing tool, as well as a great free clip art library. You can also draw something yourself (or use the free clip art and add text), and with a few clicks it can be transferred to a shirt, mug, mousepad, or greeting card.
Galaxy Galaxy is the oldest searchable Internet directory. Theirr mission is to provide contextually relevant, trustworthy information to visitors and partners by integrating state-of-the-art technology with the human touch.
GIF Animations hotlist
GIFWorks an online GIF image editor.
Global Access to Education Sources for research and homework help.
Glossarist a searchable and categorized directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries. Offers access to vocabularies for a wide range of topics at various levels of specificity.
Go.Com Also known as Infoseek, Alert! Overture pay-for-positioning site.
Google Almost 2.5 billion pages indexed! Add special buttons from Google to search from within other pages. Also, the advanced search field allows you to select the domain. When you search for Web pages in Google's famously large list, you can turn on SafeSearch to automatically exclude pages that have keywords, phrases, or URLs that are "adult." Take a look at the new 'google buttons'. These can really save you a lot of time. The 'Google Search' button is my favorite. (from google button page) Adding Google Browser Buttons to your personal toolbar gives you access to the same search technology available at www.google.com, without taking away from your existing screen space. With Google Search on your browser, you can search the Internet by simply highlighting a word (or phrase) on the page you are viewing and clicking the button. The GoogleScout button is useful for finding web pages that are similar to the page you are viewing. For example, clicking the GoogleScout button while viewing a company's page will often show that company's competitors. The Google.com button takes you to Google's homepage with just one click!
Google Answers Google's Newest Technology: People Answering your Questions (for a small fee)
Google Book Search When they find a book whose content contains a match for your search terms, they'll link to it in your search results. Click a book title and you'll see, like a card catalog entry, some basic information about the book. You may also see a few snippets of text from the book showing your search term in context. If the publisher or author has given them permission through their Partner Program then you'll see a few full pages from the book and if the book is out of copyright, you'll be able to page through the entire book. In all cases, you'll see links that lead directly to online bookstores where you can buy the book.
Google Directory Like Yahoo, the Google Directory is a human-compiled list of Web
sites. It is the Open Directory Project's list of Web sites with a Google interface overlay. Unlike Yahoo, the folks who compile the list of sites in each Google Directory/Open Directory Project category are (supposedly) experts in their particular subject areas. The list of medieval sites is compiled by medievalists, the list of educational sites is compiled by educators.
Google Earth Explorer
Google Guide Interactive online google tutorial and references
Google Image Search finds images by matching search terms to the captions of image files, to adjacent text, "and dozens of other factors." Results pages contain up to twenty thumbnail images with name and size of image included. Clicking on the thumbnail brings a framed page with the larger version of the image in the top frame and the Web page on which the image is located in the bottom frame. Image searches are filtered by default, but you can turn off filtering at each searching session.
Google Labs Where Google tests new technologies such as a glossary, keyboard shortcuts and searches by telephone.
Google Print Search the full text of books (and discover new ones) or research historical work with Google Print.
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
Google U.S. Government Search Google U.S. Government Search offers a single location for searching across U.S. government information, and for keeping up to date on government news. You can choose to search for content located on either U.S. federal, state and local government websites or the entire Web -- from the same search box. Below the search box, the homepage includes government-specific news content from both government agencies and press outlets. You can personalize the page by adding content feeds on government or other topics that you're interested in.
Graphic Garden Free patterns, images, stationery, and other graphics can help spice up web sites.
Graphics Library Index Sections include: African American related, Out West, Kith 'n Kin (vintage graphics), "Hot" Desktop Wallpapers, Backgrounds, School Daze, Creature Corner, Baby Book, and Seasonal.
Grokker Search engines make you comb over page after page of results, but Grokker frees you from the page rage! Say you’re looking for a tour guide of Paris, just search for “Paris” and Grokker quickly delivers all your results organized by subject in a visual form.
Hakia a new search engine that uses the power of natural language queries and semantic search.
High School Hub Directory of links specifically for secondary students.
Historic Artifacts & Library Documents search by keyword and date range, with the option to leave off image loading if it takes too much
time. A search for "plow" found 13 results, with a thumbnail of the image and a title and summary. Click on the thumbnail or the title and you'll get
information about the item, a larger view (and you can do some serious zooming in), detailed information (includes things like inscriptions, any text that might be on the item, references, and keywords)
Historic Photos of U.S. The Bureau of Land Management's new online collection of 2,500 historical photographs covering the US from the 1890s-1980s.
History Guide With over 3,000 sources available, one can search by region (ancient world, Asia, Europe, Africa, etc.) time period (five different options covering broad spans), and subject (four options: laws/constitution, culture, society, and economy.) You can also browse by time period, region, and subject.
History Image Bank In addition to textual sources, graphic images from the past can contribute to our understanding of events and developments. On these pages they present a series of images keyed to various periods.
Homework Central Search by subject!
Hotbot The new HotBot is aimed at power searchers, control over their search results. HotBot is now effectively a unified front-end for the search catalogs of Google, FAST, Inktomi and Teoma. You select which catalog you want to search with radio buttons above the
search form. After entering your search terms and seeing results from
your selected engine, you can easily view the results from the others just
by clicking their respective radio buttons. This isn't meta search -- HotBot is simply returning results from each selected engine in turn. However, it's a terrific way to quickly compare
the results of these four search catalogs without having to go to their
home pages. The new HotBot has many advanced search
capabilities. By providing easy access to four of the web's most powerful search
engines, combined with flexible and powerful filtering capabilities, the
newly reinvigorated HotBot has regained its position as an essential tool
for all serious web searchers.
Human Clock Find out what time it is in pictures.
Image Search Tools for Kids
Image Search Engines over 60 search resources and over 40 external links. The top of the page is a search box and lots of query buttons to search a variety of resources. They're divided into categories including health, artwork, stock photos, and news & blogs. Underneath that are links to external resources which point to photographs, additional information about image searching, archives, link listings, and more.At the bottom you'll see some notes about graphics on the Web in general and a few useful links.
Image resources in the public domain-Wikipedia OAlster
Infoplease Kids' Almanac Reference provider Also known as "Factmonster," Information Please produces this site which provides facts and information oriented around the needs of children.
InfoSpace a "people finder" site that offers search tools for telephone, email and address listings.
Inkscape is a free image editing and drawing program, with many of the features found in Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw. Inkscape is open source, which means the program and the source code are freely available, and it is supported by a community of volunteer programmers. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG (scalable vector graphic) features, such as markers, clones, and alpha blending. Inkscape doesn't care what kind of computer you have, with versions available for Windows (2000/2003/XP), Mac OSX, Linux, FreeBSD and other Unix-type platforms.
Internet Public Library IPL is a highly selective directory to excellent material on the Internet. Information is organized in collections. IPL Kidspace A directory of sites selected for children ages 4-11, their parents, and teachers (no search capability)
Internet Search Wizard | a meta-search engine that allows for Boolean searches plus offers a collection of site evaluation, citation and other special tools. Read the project tips to learn more about refining your searches, judging the quality of the information you find and making the resources you uncover part of "engaged learning" experiences.
InvisibleWeb for subject searches, hotlist searches or a directory into invisible web databases.
Invisible-Web This site is a companion to The Invisible Web: Finding Hidden Internet Resources Search Engines Can't See by Chris Sherman and Gary Price.
It includes a directory of some of the best resources the Invisible Web has to offer. The directory includes resources that are informative, of high quality, and contain worthy information from reliable information providers that are not visible to general-purpose search engines.
Internet4Classrooms helps teachers use the Internet effectively with hundreds of links by grade level and subject area.
iSpecies Living Things Round-Up Engine gets a page of results gathered from different places; genomics, images (from Google Images) and articles from Google Scholar. Search for an animal by its common name, be sure to run another search for its scientific name.Also fun, adding modifiers to the animal name. Results for albino cat or feral cat were much more specific and useful than a general cat search. And don't only stick to real animals either -- searching for centaur brings both images and papers from Google Scholar in its results.
Ithaki metasearch engine, you'll be searching Google, Yahoo, Wisenut, Teoma, Open Directory, Alltheweb, Altavista, Hotbot and Webcrawler.
Ithaki for Kids is a metasearch engine because it taps into several search engines simultaneously to return findings. By using Ithaki for Kids, children will be searching seven kid-friendly sites or search engines including Yahooligans, Dmoz Kids, Yahooligans, FactMonster, ArtKidsRule, AolKids, AppuKids, and Discovery School. ithaki.net is a powerful and innovative internet metasearch engine.
Ithaki 4 KIDS finds results in the best search engines for kids simultaneously, then removes the duplicates, ranks the results and shows them in one page.
Ixquick search the Web, Usenet, and for MP3 music files and images. It queries most major search engines and is very fast. Translates your query into into each search engine's syntax. This allows you to use boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), quoted phrases, plus, minus, and wildcards. Most metasearch tools do not handle complicated search terms well, so search nerds will love this one. Eliminates duplicates and gets rid of redundant entries. Shows stars for relevance - one star for each search engine that places a result in its top ten. Does not query Google, which is too bad because Google is one of the best search engines. Alert! Some Overture pay-for-positioning search engines used.
kartoo A meta-search engine,Kartoo analyses your request, questions the most relevant engines, selects the best sites and places them on a map.
Kathy Schrock's Slide Show on Successful Web Search Strategies
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Subject Directories
Kathy Schrocks Guide for Educators: Search Engines, Metasearch Engines and the Invisible Web
KidInfo Designed to provide students with links to homework help resources, this directory is organized into twelve subject areas: American history, art, computers, current events and newspapers, foreign languages, geography and social studies, health, English language skills, mathematics, music, sciences, and world history. Also includes reference resources: almanacs, atlases, calendars, career information, dictionaries, encyclopedias, library and ask-an-expert sites, museums, quotations, and study skills. Other sections include search engines for kids and fun sites (comics, hobbies, games, etc.).
Kidsclick! Organized by librarians, this site is also arranged by the Dewey System and has a web searching tutorial for kids. It also has suggested reading levels.
KidsClick! World of Searching Search lessons, step by step specially designed for children.
KidsConnect For kindergarten-12th grade students looking for information on the Internet for a report or project to do for school, KidsConnect, the on-line question answering and referral service will help you out!
KidsConnect Research Toolbox will help you become more comfortable with the research process. In KCTools you'll find help with four basic phases of the research process. It begins with "I wonder" and asks you to think about your question or topic and how to seek further advice on the Internet.
Kid's Domain Clip Art thousands of original images which can be used legally for educational purposes. It is arranged by topic and is especially useful for kids, teachers, and school and children's librarians.
KidsKonnect.com has an alphabetized list and subject index created and maintained by educators.
KIDS.NET.AU 20,000 kid safe sites, this is for teachers who send their students on Web
searches, and who want to keep things both suitable and safe.
KidsNook.com Directory of web sites, designed for kids ages 7 to 14. All sites are supposed to be appropriate for children. Adult-oriented banner ads do not appear.
Kid's Search Tools Several of the best child appropriate search engines at one site.
Killerinfo Clustered results from your favorite search engines.
Knowplay dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotation lookups, and is customizable.
Librarian's Index to the Internet By librarians but for everyone with well-annotated sites..
Library in the Sky Contains over 15,000 links to some of the best educational resources on the Internet.
Library of Congress News Photos The entire collection spans from the 1860s to the 1930s, but the majority of the photographs in the collection span the 1900s to the 1920s. There are two forms on the search page.. The top one is for searching the full keywords of the prints while the bottom one is for just searching subject headings and formats. Think full text search engine versus searchable subject index.
Library of Congress search engine, directory and much more. LOC Web Sites & Databases
Library of Congress Wise Guide The Library of Congress and the Ad Council created this site "to introduce you to the many fascinating, educational and useful resources available from the nation's library". Each month a new selection of resources ranging from prints, photographs, films, audio recordings, maps, manuscripts, music and digital materials to books from federal government sponsored sites are featured. The monthly articles describe the resource and offer links to more information. Eleven archived issues of the Wise Guide are available along with the most current edition. A wide variety of topics from American Women to Dynamite Presidents to Becoming a Dancing Fool have been featured. This is a great way to get your students interested in exploring the millions of items that are available online at www.loc.gov. (from Education World)
LibrarySpot Encyclopedias, maps, online libraries, quotations, dictionaries & more
Linkopedia Kidzone Rated and reviewed sites for children aged 2 to 10.
Liszt broad categories that cover the vast majority of newsgroups, and smaller categories covering non-English language and regional interest groups.
Looksmart The short site descriptions are helpful. Claims to be the global leader in Web directories, with 31 directories spanning 28 countries and 13 languages. More of an emphasis on reviewing sites, as opposed to just listing them.
Looksmart for Kids over 20,000 kid friendly websites that were hand picked by employees of Looksmart subsidiary Net Nanny and vetted for quality. Looksmart also offers a safe search of the entire web, using Net Nanny software to filter Wisenut search results.
Lycos Personalize your searches, parental control option available.
Lumerias | Search engines like ours use a technology called web crawler, web spider or robot to scour the web and discover new content. Our particular robot is specialised in indexing video content.
Lycos Multimedia Search If you're after a photo of Tiger Woods or a purring Bengal tiger, you'll find it here or Google Images or Ditto.
Lycoszone Specially tailored for kids.
Lycos Invisible Web Catalog Find things on the Invisible Web, an index of searchable databases.
MadScientist Search Form
Mamma a "Smart Meta Search Engine." When the user enters a query at the Mamma.com website, Mamma's powerful proprietary technology simultaneously queries 10 of the major Search Engines and properly formats the words and syntax for each source being probed. Mamma then creates a virtual database, organizes the results into a uniform format and presents them by relevance and source. In this manner, Mamma.com provides the end user with a highly relevant and comprehensive set of search results. Alert! Overture pay-for-positioning search engines used.
Marylaine.com finds "neat new stuff" of research value, some of which is invisible.
Mediabuilder Animation Factory Over 30,000 original animations and web designs for use on web pages, email and presentations.
Metacrawler From Search Engine Watch 09/02 ""Metacrawler is a hardcore site for the sophisticated searcher," said InfoSpace's Baur. Unlike Dogpile's approach of presenting results grouped by their original source, Metacrawler blends results based on relevancy
and performance. Speed is emphasized -- if a particular engine isn't
processing a query quickly, its results won't be included in your
Metacrawler results. The source of each result is clearly labeled. This lets you see that a particular result came from several search engines, or perhaps just a single one. Seeing the attribution displayed like this offers clues that can help you decide whether to click through to the underlying page or not." Alert! Overture pay-for-positioning search engines used.
Mickey's Place in the Sun This site has many links to country and craft graphics and clip art sites - but the page has grown to include other graphic sites that contain great graphics and clipart that would add beauty and uniqueness to a web page.
Midomi Search for a tune by humming or singing into your microphone or enter a song, artist, or performer.
Moonspell Animations cool 3-d animals, aliens etc.
Moreover online news headlines from thousands of sources sorted into 700 categories see also reference page under "Media"
MrSapo allows quick, easy comparisons of the results of the same search on virtually any major engine.
MSN Search Gates and Co. have come up with some pretty tough competition for Google,with the new MSN Search. MSN Search provides search for web pages,
news or images, as well as interactive maps and access to the Encarta
encyclopedia.(from Bob Rankin's Tourbus)
MSN.com Almost always lists relevant results on first attempt, though best results can be hard to find. Many duplicate results (though not as many as Google) make the list seem cluttered. If a query is somehow related to an MSN partner (a search for "CD players" suggests MSN's eShop first), results can be too numerous. Many dead links, but most do redirect to the site's home page. Actual search engine results are buried beneath whatever links MSN deems relevant ("top ten most popular sites," "featured sites," "sponsor sites," and "news clips"). At bottom, "shopping results" links directly to a site to buy, if pertinent. Advanced search "Stemming" feature lets you broaden results to include both word roots and word derivations, returning "hacking" and "hackers" when you search for "hacker." No place to add in extra search terms. Doesn't support quotation marks to specify an exact phrase inside the query.
Automatically corrects spelling.
Multnomah County Library Homework Center Internet subject directory, consists of Web resources that specifically concentrate on K-12, homework-related subjects.
Music | Podsafe Music Network | Garageband | MagnaTune |
NASA space images
National Image Library The National Image Library contains still photo images of wildlife, plants, National Wildlife Refuges and other scenics, as well as wildlife management work. You may search all the images through the National Image Library, or you may search by individual collection.
New York Public Library Digital Gallery 360,000 digitized, public-domain images
from books, magazines, postcards, posters, illuminated manuscripts, etc. There's a quick search on the front page. An advanced search allows you to search on different fields including title, image, and source code.
New York Public Library Databases and Indexes Online over 170 free online databases along with brief summaries of these databases. Included in this list of databases are very specific sites such as Europa, which lists current information on the countries in the European Union, to general databases such as World Factbook or Barteby's Reference database.
NOAA Photo Library
OffRamp OffRamp.US has developed a search engine directory with a criteria and layout so that the most novice of users can locate any business online in their area within just a few short clicks of the mouse. Searches can be done on all category listings from A-Z, not just the popular ones. You may also enter other criteria such as zip code, area code, and mileage search area.
Oingo meaning based searching based on an extensive ontology of millions of words, meanings, and their conceptual relationships to other meanings in a semantic network that is constantly changing to reflect the currency of everyday language. Once a query is submitted, our interpretive algorithm parses it and the output is filtered to derive the optimal result.
OneHundred Top Clip Art Sites
OneKey This “kid safe search engine” filters out sites that do not meet U.S. Network TV Standards for decency. More than 500 categories, quotes of the day, news, and top game sites provide hours of safe surfing. Young surfers will discover Web pages on books, ranging from classics such as Anne of Green Gables to recent bestsellers such as Goosebumps; Inventive Online, which contains interactive sites for activities such as creating a volcano; homework reference sources; and “Your Government”.
Online Institute Clip Art Here you'll find links to many types of images and graphics, including animated gifs and free stuff for your website.
Open Directory The most comprehensive directory of the web composed by a vast army of volunteer editors.
Open Directory (DMOZ) for Kids & Teens The volunteers responsible for the Kids and Teens section have
reviewed and organized 23,790 sites into fourteen subcategories. Each site is briefly annotated and includes a recommended audience: kids, teens, or mature teens.
Pandia Search Engine Detective, news, tools and resources
Photo Clipart Island
Pics4Learning Clip Art Copyright-friendly pics for education.
Pinakes a subject launchpad.
Place Name Search Engine a search engine for place names that also incorporates
information about last names in the United States. Over 200,000 place names and last names are incorporated into this engine. The query box is on the left of the front page. Enter a place name. (Pebble works well.) You'll get a list of places with that name, along with the location (state, county, sometimes elevation.) Information varies by the type of listing. Do a search for Rocky; you'll see the popularity of the word as a first name, the postal code for Rocky, Oklahoma, stats on the town of Rocky, Oklahoma, and other listings. (If you want to see stats on a last name try the query Lightning.) You don't have to enter a place name to get search results. You can use a zip code or an area code as well. Entering smaller numbers, like area codes, can get you weird results. 818, for example, will show you that it's an area code for Los Angeles, but it'll also tell you that Carver is the 818th most popular last name in the US, Egypt's ISO-3166 number is 818.
Podanza audio & video podcast sesrch engine
Podcast Alley the place to find podcasts.
PodcastDirectory.com the big directory
Podcast.net the podcast directory
Podcast Network
Podcast Pickle has a metasearch engine called Podcast Inspector.
Yahoo Podcast search
Podscope audio & video searches
Podzinger now called Everyzing find the media that you want
Poly Cola compares two search engine's hits in a side by side split screen.
Profusion not only finds obscure databases on the Internet, but makes it easy to search them. Say you're researching the Hubble Space Telescope. Click on "astronomy," and ProFusion takes you to a page that features a search window linked to a pair of databases created by astronomers at major universities. Type in "Hubble" and ProFusion searches both of these databases simultaneously. Because the databases were hand-picked by scientists, there's no sifting through reams of rubbish. You get useful information on your first try. It's such an impressive system that Intelliseek has gotten venture capital funding from the CIA, which wants to use a beefed-up version for its own online research. With the Internet at well over a billion pages and counting, even master spies need help with their homework. Alert! Some Overture pay-for-positioning search engines used.
Project Gutenberg Search for literature & other great works.
qbSearch This meta-search engine has several features that set it apart from its peers. In addition to the usual suspects (Google, Yahoo, Raging, MetaCrawler, etc.), the engine also searches News Index and Deja.com.qbSearch allows users to specify the number of pages displayed per engine and combines them all into one large page (this may take a while to load). The final and best feature of the site is the QuickLinks mode, which (when activated) allows users to select all of the links they want to view and then display the first page of all ofthem on a single page. Clicking any link on these pages launches a new browser window. Alert! Overture pay-for-positioning search engines used.
Query Server an advanced metasearch tool that broadcasts a query across a set of Web engines selected by the user. Results are listed in a ranked, clustered and merged list.
QuickyWiki |
Research Channel Search for live Webcasts and from a video library of nearly 3,000 scholarly programs, with new releases added each week.
Rocketinfo Scours over 5,000 Web sites for current news, information & Weblogs,
Rocketinfo's search engine can retrieve news articles and stories as far back as five days. By entering a keyword or phrase, Rocketinfo will provide relevant news stories from sources such as the Associated Press, CNN News, and the Washington Post. Fast and user-friendly, this search engine makes news stories easily accessible.
RocketNews Search Engine Search over 3000 sources for news stories and specify the age of the stories for which you're searching (between one and five days.)
School Graphics
School Icons Free school related icons and graphics
School Related Graphics This page contains graphics, animations, music, and backgrounds geared toward education. There are many school related graphic links and links to help publish your own web page.
Scirus for scientific information searches and headlines, with Elsevier's massive scientific information resources drawn from thousands of journals and books, Scirus is a hybrid
search engine that's useful to amateur and professional alike.
SciSeek A science search engine & directory.
Science Images Microscopy images are grouped into thirteen categories: Algae, Arachnids, Bacteria, Crystals, Fungi & Slime Molds, Insects, Invertebrates, Medical, Miscellaneous, Plants, Protozoa, Vertebrates, and Viruses. Each thumbnail can be enlarged by clicking on the image. Interactive features include the Virtual SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) that puts users at the control panel of the SEM and the Zoom In! section that lets users study the detailed anatomy of insects using images from a powerful Scanning Electron Microscope. Another fun part of the site is "The Most Wanted Bugs." Here users can view the "Bug Mugs" and the "Bug Bodies," by clicking on a mug or body brings up a record that gives the scientific name, description, diet, habitat, wanted for and last known location as well as a larger image. Additionally, the site includes information on the science of microscopy and links to related sites. (from Education World)
Search.com Metasearch more than 800 specialized engines from around the Web. Alert! Overture pay-for-positioning search engines used.
SearchEdu.com Index of pages built by crawling education web sites.
Search Engine Directory The aim of the Search Engine Dictionary web site and the accompanying book is to establish a standard for search engine terminology by creating an authorative glossary of search engine terms.
Search Engine Comparison Chart Compare the various search engines' search features.
Search Engine Showdown An easy to navigate site with search engine news, reviews and analyses.
Search Engine Watch for tips on searching, a list of all of the major search engines and reviews
SearchGov Search the .gov domain.
Search IQ same as ZDNet, points to subject specific search engines.
SearchMe is a slick search engine with an advanced and intuitive interface. Search results are displayed as a gallery of images that allows you to see the page without having to click-through. Do a search on "Obama" and SearchMe will note that you're probably referring to the future presidential candidate Barack Obama. In doing so, SearchMe will present you with several related categories to narrow your search such as Politicians, Democratic Party, US Government, and Political News. SearchMe also provides users with the option to create stacks, or bundles of web pages saved for later. This is a highly unique search engine of the future.
Seek Scan Seekscan is a meta-search engine with a slight difference; instead of aggregating results, generates search results pages from different engines and presents them in one framed interface. For example, do a search for "three blind mice." The search page will present you with links to search results pages from a variety of engines including Lycos, Google, Yahoo, HotBot, and Teoma. Click on a source page and you'll get the search results for that page. It works the same for the other specialty searches, including news, Weblogs, and reference.
Sherlock For Mac users, this tool can be downloaded. Sherlock channels make searching even easier and more powerful by grouping similar sources together and returning results appropriate to what you’re looking for.
Silly Art
Social Studies for Kids Social Studies for Kids offers articles, links, and fun facts, on
history, geography, cultures, holidays, economics, and archaeology.
Sound Archive Catalogue A searchable online catalog of almost 2.5 million sound recordings held by the British Library National Sound Archive. The collection ranges from pop music to tree frogs to oral histories. Specialty Search Engines help you search through specific types of listings in different areas.
Speegle Results are spoken so use headphones or speakers.
Spider's Apprentice A helpful guide to search engines, tips on using search engines like AltaVista, Excite, Google, Lycos, HotBot, and Yahoo.
Subjex the world's first dialog based Internet search engine portal with a goal of humanizing technology with dialogue, have a conversation with it!
SurfMonkey Surf Monkey’s neon colors and frenetic blinking links may catch children’s attention, and the links offer hours of entertainment. Cool Sites are divided into categories such as Playful, Artsy, Brainy, and Starstruck. Fun Sites lets children post artwork to the gallery, enter contests, and vote on popular topics. The Top Secret Surfing Code offers excellent “safe surfing” tips to young users. Young surfers can shop, leave messages on electronic bulletin boards, and chat online. Parents may be interested in the Surf Monkey bar, a free, downloadable tool that protects kids from visiting inappropriate sites.
Switchboard If you don't find the person you're looking for on InfoSpace, try this site, it uses a different database.
Teacher Files educational clip art
Teacher Oz is a database of topically organized internet resources for use by students, teachers, and history lovers. The site also includes extensive areas on World History, Geography, Government, Art, Music, Literature, Film, and Education.
Teach-nology.com Directory of web sites for teachers and educators.
TekMom's Search Tools for Students All-in-one search page for kid search sites and research resources.
Teoma Teoma's technology uniquely divides the Web into natural communities and analyzes topic-specific Web content to dynamically generate the most relevant and authoritative search results.
The Big Hub If your initial search comes up dry, try this meta-searcher that gathers from eight different search sites.
Thumbshots Allows you to compare searches between search engines, with a chart showing degree of overlap between them and the number of unique pages retrieved. It also allows you to compare results on similar terms in the same search engine - "car" vs. "cars" on Google, for example.
Time Magazine Archive With 81 years of articles, the archive is keyword and date-searchable, with
an additional search for covers. (subscription)
Turbo10 Meta Search Engine that clusters results, allowing you to narrow down a search using a pull-down menu at the top of the page.
Urban Legends Search this and up pops an article or two that either debunks or "bunks" the email in question.
U.S. Government Graphics & Photos FirstGov.gov now offers a page of links to photos and
graphics from a variety of federal government agencies. Most of these photos and graphics are in the public domain and can be used or reproduced without permission or fee. Check with each website to be sure.
You'll find photos of Earth from Space, photos of National Parks, medical and historical photos and illustrations, and much, much more.
Viewzi a visual search engine that has various visual viewing options that are available for users to view their search results. From the album and mp3 search view for music, to the 3D Photo Cloud and Celebrity Photo views, there's something for everyone with Viewzi.
Virtual Learning Resources Cente r Access to quality reference & information sites.
Vivisimo a clustering engine that organizes results from several engines into hierarchical categories. No payments accepted!
Wayback Machine The Wayback Machine makes it possible to surf pages stored in the Internet Archive's vast Web archive. Travel back in Web time and view slices of Internet history.
WebBrain WebBrain lets you search the Web visually, so you can explore a dynamic picture of related information, instead of searching through long lists of text.
Webopedia The only online dictionary and search engine you need for computer and Internet technology.
Webrary links to the most useful reference and informational web sites, organized by subject according to Dewey Decimal System call numbers.
Whittlebit "Whittle" down your search results based on how you react to the initial search results. By each result is a red thumbs-down icon, and a green thumbs-up icon. Click on the thumbs-up icon by the first
result, then go through each item and click on either thumbs-up or thumbs-down, depending on how relevant it is to your search. (They'll get a yellow glow around them so you know you've clicked them.) Then click "Whittle," which is at the top of the page next to the query box. The page will refresh and you'll get a new set of results at the top of the page, along with a note about what terms were added to thr query and which terms were excluded from the results. Another set of results appear that can be voted on, and keep going as needed.
Wikipedia | Be careful because anyone can post to this site, but it can be very useful for current topics.
Wikiseek is a tool to search Wikipedia pages and its embedded links. Since Wikipedia's links are pretty good documentation, searches should retrieve a lot of encyclopedic and documentary textual and media resources.
If the answers are too long on Wikipedia try QuickyWiki
WiseNut WiseNut's mission is to become the leading provider of advanced technology and services in the Internet search market. Claims to have indexed one and a half billion pages. Given a bad grade by an expert.
WWW Virtual Library an excellent place to begin research, it is run by volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert. Virtual Library pages are recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the web. Individual indexes reside on hundreds of different servers around the world.
xrefer this site contains encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri & books of quotations from the world's leading publishers. All cross-referenced, all in one place - providing you with a single source for reliable factual information.
Yahoo a very popular search engine and directory. Alert! Overture pay-for-positioning site. Yahoo divides its results into relevant categories and gives quick, pertinent descriptions. Always offers "related searches" for the overall query and "similar results" for individual listings to accurately refine a search on the fly. If it doesn't have what you need in its own directory, it helpfully uses Google's Web page listings. Results are broken down into neat rows of related categories, making relevant links easy to locate. Website listings come with a precise, one-sentence summary. Search terms are highlighted in results, like Google. Ads are small and usually related. Advanced search is not needed, because Yahoo offers up all necessary search methods on the first pass. Otherwise, the "advanced search" is weak. Click on "Research Documents" to pull up current news stories relating to the topic.
Yahoo Education Directory a specialized subject directory from the folks at Yahoo
Yahoo Image Search Yahoo's Image Search results will include Flickr photos! Over 300 million of them have been added to the Yahoo Image Search pool.
Yahoo People Search If you don't find the person you're looking for on InfoSpace or Switchboard, try this site, it uses a different database.
Yahoo Picture Gallery
Yahoo Photography Find online images using this search engine
Yahooligans Yahoo for kids, designed for ages 7 to 12. Sites are hand-picked to be appropriate for children. Also, unlike normal Yahoo, searches will not be forwarded to Yahoo's search engine partner Inktomi if there is no match from within the Yahooligan listings. This prevents possibly objectionable sites from slipping onto the screen. Additionally, adult-oriented banner advertising will not appear within the service. Yahooligans is the oldest major directory for children, launched in March 1996.
ZapMeta a meta-search engine, set your preferences before searching
ZDNet Search Engine reviews, directory of search engines and search databases
Zuula Metasearch Zuula does metasearch in several different categories, including News, Images, Blogs, and Jobs (!!). The Web metasearch includes Google, Exalead, MSN, and Gigablast. Results from each search engines are broken out by tab. There's a panel for recent searches on the left side of the results page that you can collapse; otherwise the results look like regular search engine results. The blog search is especially nice as it includes Technorati and IceRocket; add Blogdigger in there and I'll have just one place to go for my blogging search results. (Google Blog search is supposed to be there as well but currently it's giving an error.) The tabs for each search type can be rearranged or customized (tabs removed, filters set, number of search results per screen specified.) There are also global preferences available and a limited advanced search. (from ResearchBuzz)