Search Engines

Tools that search other (free) Internet sites for the keywords you designate. Useful when you are searching for specific information (not browsing).

• Google
  Retrieves more educational and fewer commercial sites.
  
• AltaVista
  Includes both Basic and Advanced searching; allows Boolean operators.
  
• Northern Light
  Includes related links in custom search folders.
  
• MetaCrawler
  A MetaSearch Engine searches several engines at once.
  

Subject Directories

Hierarchically organized indexes of subject categories that take you to free Internet sites. These indexes are useful when browsing for information about a topic.

• WWW Virtual Library
  
• Librarians' Index to the Internet
  
• Yahoo!
  

Additional Internet Search Sites