Search Engines

A listing of popular or highly useful search engines or metasearch engines. Search engines are online forms that receive (usually) textual input from users, search one or more indexes of online resources, and return ranked results deemed relevant to the user's input. (Always evaluate a website, or other online resource, to determine how trustworthy and reliable the information is. See Internet Resource Evaluation under Web Searching Guides below to learn how to evaluate the authority of online resources.)

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Audio/Video Search Engines

These search engines specifically search for audio/video files on the web, but be sure to check out the other listed search engines and metasearch engines. They often provide specialized searches for media.

Clustered Results Search Engines

These are search engines that cluster the results in one way or another, so as to make it easier to look at more results simultaneously or interpret results more quickly.

Image Search Engines

These search engines specialize in finding images. Always find out if an image has a copyright before using it, ask permission from the creator and/or owner before using an image if they do or if you are not sure, and properly cite copyrighted image in papers and presentations (see our Reference >> Style and Writing Guides section).

Metasearch Engines

List of search engines that search multiple other search engines at once and return the results.

Web Searching Guides

These guides explain how to search the web and/or point to useful tools for searching the web.

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