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AltaVista

AltaVista

This search engine will suggest search term phrases to help you narrow and refine your query.

AnyWho

AnyWho

This is a phone numbers search engine for finding people, places and businesses. There is also a reverse phone number lookup.

Dogpile

DogPile

A meta-search engine, DogPile searches a list of search engines to compile results.

Google

Google

Considered by many to be the finest search engine on the planet. Google accepts no money for listing sites and has more pages compiled than any other single search engine. Now also has specific area searches for images, groups, and directory (grouped results). An ideal place to start researching.

HotBot

HotBot

More words helps to refine the search on this engine.

InfoMine

InfoMine

Developed by the Libraries of the University of California, this engine has both a standard and advanced search version. The help file is clear and concise and will be of use to any user.

ixquick

ixquick

Another metasearch engine that works best when you follow the search help guidelines.

Librarians Index

Librarians' Index to the Internet

A search engine from the Libraries of California. The pre-grouped searches are very effective for a starting point and the help file is actually helpful.

mapquest

Mapquest

A map search engine. It has maps, driving directions, road trip planner, yellow pages and a world atlas.

Metacrawler

Metacrawler

Another metasearch engine -- the Power Search setting is very effective and you can also customize the site to your likings if so inclined.

vivisimo

Vivisimo

A relative new comer to the search engine game, Vivisimo has made a large impact especially when one considers it was started in June of 2000. Developed at Carnegie Mellon University, Vivisimo has received rave reviews from influential Internet industry publications such as Wired, Yahoo!: Internet Life, PCWorld, and Ziff Davis (ZDNet.com). The clustering engine organizes search results on-the-fly.

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