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Google Expansive, limited search functionality but we all love it! |
Dmoz Lists of sites sorted into subjects. Often easier than Googling. See also Yahoo & Lycos |
Dogpile Search search engines. Sadly differences in syntax tend to hamper "meta searches", but see also Excite, Mamma |
Google
Quotes See what people are saying about something, someone, some website. |
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Other
Google! Hotbot searches Google better than Google! See also FaganFinder, Googlism, Staggernation |
BUBL Lists official sites of UK education, government, social & cultural bodies |
Complete Planet Databases by subject. Content often missed by regular search engines. |
Answers provides encylopedia, wikipedia, dictionary and thesauri entries on one page. Wikipedia is authored by amateur experts |
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Other
Engines May have more search functionality than Google. See also Vivisimo & Altavista, BBC Search |
Virtual
Library A dedicated "academic material" subject directory. See also Questia "Online Library Search" |
Search
Engine Colossus Finds search engines from other countries. |
About "Knowledge base" style directories and resources on different subjects. |
| Audio | Video | Images | Statistics |
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All The Web A regular search engine, but with reasonable audio & video searching. RealMediaSearch |
Footage.net Searches various commercial video archives. See also: Youtube, Yahoo Video Search |
Google
Images Search for images on webpages. See also Yahoo Images, Getty, Corbis & Free Foto |
NationMaster Global stats & graphs on anything. |
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