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THE BEST SEARCH ENGINES AND DIRECTORIES

List of search engines and directories

The databases used by search engines are made by "robots" or "spiders" that automatically map the Web by following the links between sites. The directories, on the other hand, contain sites that are hand picked by human beings. Still, most search sites present search engine as well as directory results. Metasearch engines gather results from several search engines and directories. They are not that good at advanced Boolean searching, but may provide you with a broad sweep of the Web.

Traditional search engines list normal webpages and some other file types that are interlinked to from such webpages. The database sites, however, give you access to data that are not part of the Web as such. See also sites focusing on the hidden Web below.

Search Engines

About the best...
Accoona
Ask
Bing (Live Search)
Cuil
Duck Duck Go
Exalead
Factbites
FyberSearch
GigaBlast
Google
MoJeek
Quintura
Yahoo!
Yahoo!/Alta Vista
Yahoo!/All The Web
NEW! Secret Search Engine Labs Beta
more...

Local search

AOL local
Ask Local
Bing Local
NEW! Local.com
NEW! LocalSearch
MSN City Guides
Yahoo! Local
Pandia Plus Regional Search Engines

Maps

Bing Maps
NEW! Bing Multimap
Google Maps Local
MapQuest
NEW! NG MapMachine
Yahoo! Maps


Metasearch

Pandia Metasearch
Alohah! (the long tail)
Beaucoup!
Clusty
Dogpile
eTools
Findelio
HotBot
NEW! Infospace
Ixquick
Kosmix
Mamma
Metacrawler
RedeSearch.com
Search.com
more...

Custom Search

Directories over vertical and custom search engines:
Custom Search Engines
CustomSearchEngine.com
vErtical sEarch

General directories

About the best...
Pandia Plus [Q]
NEW! A1 Web Directory
About.com
Alive
Best of the Web
Directory Journal
Gimpsy
Goguides.org
IllumiRate
ipl2
Joe Ant
Open Directory [Q]
Romow
Rubber Stamped
Seven Seek
Skaffe
Tygo.com
Undum
WOW
Yahoo! [Q]

Specialized directories

Academic Info
Argus
Aviva Directory of Directories
BUBL UK
Femina Cybergrrl
Infomine
more...

Microblog search

AskTwitR
Back Tweets
MicroPlaza
Monitter
Trendistic
TweepSearch
Tweetzi
Twibs Business Search
Twingly Microblog Search
Twitscoop
Twitterfall
Twitter Search

Social search

collarity
Rollyo
Scour
nexplore
50 matches

Social news

digg
Mixx
Propeller
reddit
Shoutwire
Wikio
Yahoo! Buzz

Bookmark based search

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Delicious
del.izzy
Diigo

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SEARCH FOR FILES, IMAGES, MUSIC AND VIDEO

Some search engines will integrate picture and music files in regular search results. Normally, however, you will have to use separate search tools to find such files. Below find some of the best search engines for finding files, including software, pictures, MP3 and more.

Online radio has become increasingly popular, and with a fast connection the sound quality is actually quite good. We have listed the major Web radio directories. The Web has also a lot of good reference tools, including dictionaries and encyclopedias.

Images and media

AlltheWeb Pictures
Alta Vista Images
Bing Images
Compfight image search
Creative Commons on Flickr
FindSounds.com
Flickrstorm
Google Audio Indexing
Google Images
Google Image Ripper
Mlticolor Search Lab (visual Flickr search)
picsearch
Pixsy
Speedcine free movies
Real Guide
TinEye (reverse image search)
NEW! V like Vintage (historic photos)
Webseek
Yahoo! Audio Search
Yahoo Image Search
more...


Radio

Pandia Radio Search
BRS Radio Directory
Live Radio
Virtual Tuner
Radio Locator (MIT)
vTuner
more...

Podcasting

podanza
Podcast directory
Podcast network
Podscope

TV and video

AOL Video
Bing (Live) Video
Blinkx TV
Blip TV
ClipBlast
ClipShack
Clipta
Dabble
Flixya
Google Video
Guba
Hulu (US only)
meefeedia
meevee
Mega Video
Metacafe
MySpace Video
OVGuide
Putpile
Search for Video
Singing Fish
Stickam
trooker
NEW! TV Bookmark
uvouch
Veoh
Videosurf
Vidiac
Yahoo! Video
YouTube
more...

Music & MP3

P = fee based
Apple iTunes (requires download) P
Audiogalaxy P
Bloson
eMusic P
Magnatune
Mp3.com
music-map (for related artists)
Napster P
SkreemR
Songza
NEW! Spotify (requires download) P
Y! Music
more mp3...

Yahoo! Music Unlimited

Software

w=Win m=Mac *=other
cnet download.com wm*
Freeware Planet
Jumbo w
Tucows wm*
ZDNet w
more...

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SEARCH FOR ONLINE REFERENCE, DICTIONARIES, BOOKS AND MORE

The Web houses a lot of different online communities and discussion forums that may be valuable sources of information. There are several tools that might be used when searching for newsgroups, weblogs and e-zines. We have also included catalogs over online books.

E-zines

E-zine-Universe.com
Newsletter Access
more...

RSS and blogs

Bloglines
Blogpulse
Blog Search Engine
FeedPlex
Google Blog Search
IceRocket
keotag (blog tag search)
RSS Network
Technorati
more...



Discussions

BoardReader
Google Groups for Usenet
Omgili
Tile.net lists
more...

Online books

Ask Sam
NEW! Bartleby
Bookyards
Digital Book Index
Ebook Lobby
Ebook Locator
FreeBookSpot
Free eBooks
Getfreebooks
Google Books
Gutenberg
ibiblio.org litterature
Manybooks
Net Library P
Online Books Page
Onlinefreebooks
Readprint
Snipfiles
Wikibooks
more...

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Encyclopedias

Britannica
Canadian Encyclopedia
NEW! Citizendium
Columbia Encyclopedia (6th ed.)
Encyclopedia.com
NEW! Full Wiki
Wikipedia
more...

Reference

Pandia Plus
Answers.com
iTools
The Glossarist
Fagan Finder
XE Currency Coverter
World Factbook
Statistical Resources
Credo (fee based)
Refdesk.com
RefSeek
NEW! Online Calculators
more...

Dictionaries

Dictionarist
Dictionary.com
Dictionary.hm
English Dictionary
Free Dictionary
Lexical FreeNet Thesaurus
LexiCool (Dictionaries)
Memidex
NetLingo, The Internet Dictionary
OneLook Dictionaries
Roget's Thesaurus
Urban Dictionary
Verbix verb conjugator
Visual Thesaurus P
Webster Dictionary
Webopedia Computer Dictionary
YourDictionary.com
more...

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BUSINESS

Below find links to essential business and finance resources.

Shopping

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Yellow Pages

AOL Yellow Pages
CitySearch.com
Dexonline.com
Magic Yellow
Metrobot US
MSN Yellow Pages
SuperPages.com
SwitchBoard.com
True Local (Canada)
Yahoo Yellow Pages
Yell UK
YellowBook.com

Business

Akama Open Business Directory
Bizshark
Bloomberg
Bocat B2B Guide
Business.com
CEO Express
CNNfn
Forbes
fxsignals.com
Hoover's
Lycos Small Business
now2business UK
Stock Market Yellow Pages
XE Currency Converter
zoominfo
NEW! LocalLoop (US)

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RADIO SEARCH


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Tools for specialized searching

In this section we have selected search sites giving access to the invisible Web, i.e. information sources that are not easily reached using a traditional search engines. Here you'll find sites for searching "the hidden Web", including databases and specialized topic directories. We have also listed sites with online experts, as well as sites devoted to search engines and directories in general.

A significant part of the Web is not written in English. By using online translation tools, you may at least get an impression of what the pages are about.

Specialized SE

Complete Planet
FinderSeeker
Invisible Web.net
Search Engine Guide
Search Engine Links
NEW!SlideFinder
more...

More SE collections

Sites devoted to Internet searching
Freeality
MsFreckles
SearchBug.com
USAtrace
WebLens
Search Tools for Web Sites, Intranets and Portals

Answer services

NEW! Aardvark
AllExperts
Answers.com
answerbag
AskDeb.com
Ask Me Help Desk
Ask Philosophers
ChaCha (mobile)
FunAdvice
NEW! Mahalo
Yahoo! Answers
Yedda
more...

Answer search

Omgili
QueryCat
SnappyFingers
Wikianswers

Scholarly

NEW! Citeulike
dandelon.com (German)
Europeana
Google Scholar
Intute
NEW! ipl2
Scirus
more...

Fee based
NEW! Deepdyve
Dialog
Lexis
Science Direct
Setswise
Vascoda

Visual

eyePlorer
Nexplore
Quintura
Redz
Simploos
Viewzi

Mobile

NEW! AOL Mobile
NEW! Ask Mobile
NEW! Bing Mobile
NEW! Google Mobile
NEW! ChaCha (Answer search)
NEW! Gune Directory & Search
NEW! Taptu
NEW! Towza!
NEW! Wapedia (Wikipedia for mobile)
NEW! Yahoo! Mobile

Translation

Babelfish webpage-translator
Systran
WorldLingo
Proz
Google Translate

Jobs

Jobs at Monster.com
careerjet.com (employment)
Net-Temps Jobs
JobNext
Job Rapido

Topic specific

CompInfo (computers)
NEW! .dotWhat!? (file extensions)
Education Online Search (education)
FiliInfo (File extensions)
Google Computer Code Search (computer code)
Healia health search (health)
Omni Medical Search (health)
SearchEducation (education)
SearchMil.com (military)
WebMD health search (health)

How to and tutorials

NEW! eHow
NEW! FindHow
NEW! FindTutorials
NEW! Howcast
NEW! SuTree
NEW! Videojug
NEW! WikiHow


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