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Internet Search

General Search Engines | Directories | Metasearch Engines | Subject Guides


General Search Engines
Google [help]
Google also offers specialized searches including Google Book Search, Google Scholar and Google U.S. Government Search.

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all words or phrases
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to exclude; ex: python -Monty
site:edu
 to limit to educational websites
site:gov
 to limit to government websites
site:org
 to limit to organization websites
Altavisita [help]
Search engine owned by Yahoo. Excellent choice for finding images, audio and video.
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*
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Directories

Yahoo Search [help]

Yahoo! offers both a regular search engine and their classic Yahoo Directory.  Great choice for finding images.
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Metasearch Engines

MetaCrawler [help]

This classic metasearch engine has been around since 1995.

Clusty

The metasearch engine that sorts your results into categories!  Clusty is powered by Vivisimo.


Subject Guides

About.com [help]

Subject "experts" organize and provide links to the "best" of the web.

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