Web Search Engines

Individual search companies that access web-pages for results.

• Ask.com - Understands questions as well as search terms.
• Excite - Similar search options and layout to HORNetCat.
• Google - Popular search engine with relevant results.
• Yahoo! - Pioneer and popular search engine.

Multi-Search Engines/Metacrawlers

Searches several search engines at once.

• Clusty.com - Lists results as well as provide “clusters” of categories related to search item.
• Dogpile - Best results from variety of search engines.
• Ixquick - Ranks relevant findings with options to expand or delete individual results.
• WebCrawler - Easy to use crawler brings and lists best results from variety of search engines.

Web Directories

Lists of websites per specific subject.

• About.com - Access to over 500 guides leading to practical content related to any search query.
• Academic Info - Subject directory related to education resources and programs.
• D M O Z - Also called the Open Directory Project; claims to be definitive catalog of the Web.
• Librarians’ Internet Index - Websites organized into 14 main topics by librarians.