All sites have been evaluated by librarians and teachers.

http://www.sweetsearch.com/

"best free educational resources whilst providing a safe environment for children to use the world wide web"

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/

Displays results in a cloud-based style

http://quinturakids.com/

Locates kid-related webpages; designed around Google's safe search

http://www.kidrex.org/

Designed for kids ages 6-12.

http://www.askkids.com/

Family-friendly search engine that filters all content

http://famhoo.com/

Google is default search engine.

http://search.spacetime.com/

http://whitepapers.VirtualPrivateLibrary.net/Scholar.pdf

Surface Web and Deep Web

http://2aday.wordpress.com/2007/05/11/300-search-engines-reviewed-yes-300-yes-reviewed/

http://tinyurl.com/3x9j9g

``It is in users` best interest to utilize multiple search engines.``

http://research.microsoft.com/~ryenw/papers/WhiteSIGIR2008a.pdf

Andrei Broder (Yahoo!), Peter Norvig (Google), Marti Hearst (UB) and Eric Brill (Microsoft)

http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/2007/05/i_spent_thursda.html

June 2009

http://www.altsearchengines.com/2009/06/15/a-new-top-100-alternative-search-engines-list/

http://oedb.org/library/college-basics/invisible-web

Four Types: Algorithm Improvement, Information Sources, Query Pre-processing, & Visualization

http://blog.softwareabstractions.com/the_software_abstractions/2007/05/top_17_search_i.html

http://oedb.org/library/features/top-25-web20-search-engines

Beautiful and amazing interfaces

http://www.altsearchengines.com/2008/09/22/the-5-most-unique-search-engine-interfaces/

PDF Only Search Engine

http://www.zhift.com/PDF/

``Listing over 25,000 free books on the Web``

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

http://manuals-search-engine.com/

``the most important search sites and resources B2B search marketers should be targeting``

http://searchengineland.com/080507-130756.php

http://www.philb.com/countryse.htm

http://www.netmasters.co.uk/european_search_engines/

http://www.webstreetstudios.com/costs/top-level-domain-names.htm

http://www.domainit.com/country-domains-qz.html#T

http://www.blinkx.tv

http://www.geniusfind.com/

http://www.sweetsearch.com

Categories: high school, middle, and elementary teachers and students

http://www.sweetsearch.com/weblinks.html

Directory of Google CSEs

http://www.customsearchengine.com/index.php?s=A&c=19&p=1

McGraw-Hill's Digital Engineering Library

http://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/

Part 1 of 3

http://www.altsearchengines.com/2009/01/11/federated-search-finds-content-that-google-cant-reach-part-i-of-iii/

Part 2 of 3

http://www.altsearchengines.com/2009/01/12/a-federated-search-primer-part-ii-of-iii/

Part 3 of 3

http://www.altsearchengines.com/2009/01/13/a-federated-search-primer-part-iii-of-iii/

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/search-engine-history/13152/

The Ask.com Patent Application

http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=634

Natural linking and paid for linking discussed

http://www.jenniferslegg.com/2007/05/17/choosing-your-anchor-text-for-incoming-links/

Discusses meta tags, ranking, and how an index may be built

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/search-engine.htm

Discusses link popularity factors: Quantity, Qualtity, Relevancy, Anchor Text

http://www.searchengineguide.com/debramastaler/2007/05/linking_in_a_real_world.html

Explains robots.txt operation with a visual of spider operation

http://www.robotstxt.ca/

http://www.seobook.com/relevancy/

Review of factors that possibly influence the value of a link

http://wiep.net/link-value-factors/LinkValueFactors-full.pdf

http://searchengineland.com/080122-120943.php

Adam Lasnik: ``First let me confirm that anchor text is important.``

http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-adam-lasnik-012408.shtml

http://www.iconfinder.net/

Review Popular first.

http://www.iconlook.com/

Click on the IconDB button on the right side to begin search.

http://www.challenger.se/

http://www.icons-search.com/

Larger image are on the last page of results.

http://www.iconlet.com/

http://websearch.about.com//od/bestwebsites/tp/free-images.htm

http://www.ditto.com/

http://www.faganfinder.com/img/

http://www.picsearch.com

http://www.punchstock.com/store/main

http://www.picitup.com/picitup/index.jsp

Pictures portrayed on a 3D glode

http://taggalaxy.de/

"Information Retrieval. Information Visualization. Data Mining."

http://abeautifulwww.com/

"a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks."

http://visualcomplexity.com/vc/

Organizes figures, images or schema found in biomedical articles; links to full text articles

http://www.biomed-search.com/

Aeronautics, Astronauts, Earth, Solar System, & Universe

http://www.nasaimages.org/

Finds free (open source) from Creative Commons and public domain images

http://www.sprixi.com

http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com

http://www.precisionarts.com/top15pdf/Top15-indexing.fees.pdf

http://www.bruceclay.com/searchenginerelationshipchart.htm

http://www.bruceclay.com/searchenginechart.pdf

http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/article.php/2167981

http://www.precisionarts.com/top15pdf/Top15-PPC.Advertising.pdf

http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/article.php/2167981

http://www.searchenginenews.com/se-news/chart.html

http://www.integratedresourcemgmt.com/searchenginenews.html

http://searchenginewatch.com/reports

http://www.searchengineposition.com/info/searchengines_directories.asp

http://www.search-this.com/search_engine_decoder.asp

http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn

http://www.systransoft.com/index.html

http://www.topix.net/

http://www.acronyma.com/

http://www.heartland.org/policybot.cfm

http://www.pnas.org/search.dtl

http://www.bizjournals.com

http://idg.net/federator/IDGAdvSearch.jsp

http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources

Map the popularity of words mentioned in blogs over a period of time.

http://www.blogpulse.com/trend

http://highwire.stanford.edu/

Searching: eMedicine Health, Health AtoZ, MayoClinic.com, Medem, MedicineNet.com, MedlinePlus, NHSDirect Online, and WebMD

http://www.mammahealth.com/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pmc

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed

http://creativecommons.org/find/

http://www.ssrn.com/

http://www.lights.com/weblogs/searching.html

Search engine for over 10 million chemical structures.

http://www.chemspider.com

"resources to help scholars (in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research efficiently"

http://digitalresearchtools.pbwiki.com/

``designed to retrieve information in real-time from the deep web``

http://www.pipl.com/

People Search and Public Information Search Engine

http://zabasearch.com/

http://www.peoplefinders.com/

Directory of Sites

http://www.findingpeople.info/

http://www.peekyou.com/

Compare Bing & Google results

http://bing-vs-google.com

Bing and Google

http://bingle.pwnij.com/

Results in columns from Bing, Google, and Yahoo

http://blindsearch.fejus.com/

Displays results from Google, Live Search, Yahoo and delicious

http://www.fuzzfind.com

http://www.googawho.com/searchawho.php?

compare two pane results for Google, Yahoo, Ask, Bing, DMOZ, AltaVista, Gigablast and Looksmart

http://www.graball.com/

Results by Google Yahoo, Bing &Twitter; does not support phrase searching

http://www.mixxr.co.uk/

http://www.panabee.com/

Displays number of sites that overlap

http://ranking.thumbshots.com

Results from Google, Yahoo and Bing

http://www.scour.com/

Web: Google, Yahoo, Bing, Twitter, and eBay; Image: Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Flickr

http://www.search3.com

compare results from Google, Yahoo, Ask, Dogpile, MetaCrawler, AltaVista, Looksmart and Websearch

http://us.searchboth.net/

On page access to Google, Wikipedia, Amazon, Answers, Yahoo, Bing and YouTube

http://www.soovle.com/

Yahoo, Bing, and Google

http://yabigo.com/

Does not display the number of overlaps; lines connect overlapping sites

http://www.langreiter.com/exec/yahoo-vs-google.html

Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Hakia

http://nobrandsearch.com/search

http://www.virtualchase.com/articles/searching_dirty.html

"reports, peer-reviewed articles, patents, pre-prints & journals (scientific, scholarly, technical & medical)"

http://www.scirus.com/

"content provided by its partner scholarly societies ... plus patents & government data"

http://www.scitopia.org/scitopia/

"science and technology information from 17 organizations within 13 federal science agencies"

http://www.science.gov

Astronomy, Space, Biology, Nature, Chemistry, Computer, Technology, Earth, Environmental Sciences, +++

http://www.scienceresearch.com/scienceresearch/

"scholarly journals, magazines, conference proceedings, & special publications from scientific societies & technical publishers

http://scitation.aip.org/

global science gateway connection to nat'l & internat'l scientific databases & portals"

http://worldwidescience.org

"resources of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) scientific and technical information"

http://www.scienceaccelerator.gov/

"engineering, mathematics and computing, including content from over 50 publishers and providers"

http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/

Directory of sites

http://www.sciseek.com/

"literature in computer and information science"

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/

"technical reports written by members of the IBM Research community."

http://domino.research.ibm.com/library/cyberdig.nsf/index.html

http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html

http://searchenginewatch.com/resources/article.php/2156611

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html

http://library.albany.edu/internet/

http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/services/library/instruction/www/onlinecourse/

http://www.monash.com/spidap.html

http://www.workingfaster.com/links.html

http://www.searchtools.com/

http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/

http://library.ons.gov.uk/Companion/search/index.asp

Source: Bright Planet

http://www.brightplanet.com/resources/details/searching.html

See APPENDIX: Types of Search Methods

http://www.thesedonaconference.org/content/miscFiles/Best_Practices_Retrieval_Methods___revised_cover_and_preface.pdf

Links to eyetrack study and "Search Engine Usage In North America" and "Inside the Mind of the Searcher"

http://www.enquiro.com/research.asp

http://labs.google.com/

http://tinyurl.com/acrnc

http://next.yahoo.com/

http://research.yahoo.com/

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/semantic-search-engines/9832/

http://www.mkbergman.com/?p=291

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/semantic-search-engines/9832/

http://www.the-earchives.com

http://www.findsounds.com

http://www.wavcentral.com

sound FX and musical instruments samples on

http://soungle.com/

free sound effects, sound clips, and straight up sounds

http://www.soundjay.com/

encyclopedia of free sound clips

http://soundbible.com/

"access to passages from Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets"

http://clusty.com/search?v%3aproject=billy&&v:frame=form&frontpage=1

"guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet"

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/index.html

Word, PPTs, and PDFs only

http://www.docjax.com

PDF Only Search Engine

http://www.zhift.com/PDF/

http://tinyurl.com/rlgbk

http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3619

http://missingpieces.dogpile.com/

http://www.gahooyoogle.com

http://www.grokker.com

http://www.piclens.com/

Cloud display of additional search terms

http://www.quintura.com

http://www.searchme.com/Initial.html

http://ranking.thumbshots.com/

Generates interactive 3D map of search results

http://search.tianamo.com/index2.php

Influences students to look @ more sites. Look at more site & Ujiko adds other features

http://www.ujiko.com

Horizontal display of search results

http://www.viewzi.com/

Topical overview of topics using wiki concept

http://www.wikimindmap.org/

IBM

http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/