Search Engines 
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Cluster Search
Cluster Search engines us a clustering algorithm to group search results together based on textual and linguistic similarity. The results are usually grouped into sub-categories useful for narrowing the search result.
Clusty
Clusty automatically clusters results into categories that are automatically selected from the words and phrases contained in the search results themselves.
Vivísimo creates innovative software to access and cluster the world's information for better search and discovery.
Top of page Directory
The DMOZ Open Directory Project is building the largest human-edited directory of the web, maintained by thousands of voluntary editors.
Scholarly Internet Resource Collections built by librarians at the University of California and other universities and colleges. It includes, but is not limited to, databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, listservs, online library card catalogs, articles and directories of researchers.
Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in their database and write high quality descriptions of the resources.
The Librarians Index to the Internet (LII) is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 8,300 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. LII is meant to be used by both librarians and non-librarians as a reliable and efficient guide to described and evaluated Internet resources.
General Search
Search for web pages, news, pictures, audio and video.
AltaVista is a search engine offering general web search, image search, search for audio and video, news search and a translation service.
BrainBoost is a Question Answering search engine. It was specifically designed to answer questions, asked in plain English.
Search for news, MP3s, pictures, and information.
The most popular search engine on the Web.
Lycos offers a variety of search services.
This site is meant for those not yet familiar with all the functions and required syntaxes offered by Google for searching on the web. Soople provides an easy to use interface to Google's Advanced Search features!
This search engine adds a new dimension and level of authority to search results through its breakthrough approach, known as Subject-Specific Popularity.
The Yahoo! portal offers email, a messaging solution, calendar, shopping, auctions, communities, weather and a range of other services for Internet users.Meta-Search
Dogpile makes searching more of the Web easier by returning the best results from these leading engines: Google · Yahoo · Ask Jeeves About · LookSmart · Teoma Overture · FindWhat
Mamma.com is a "smart" metasearch engine - every time you type in a query Mamma simultaneously searches a variety of engines, directories, and deep content sites, properly formats the words and syntax for each, compiles their results in a virtual database, eliminates duplicates, and displays them in a uniform manner according to relevance.
MetaCrawler uses innovative metasearch technology to search the Internet's top search engines, including Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, About, FindWhat, LookSmart, and many more.Sci/Tech Search
Bitpipe is the leading destination for busy professionals who need technology white papers, webcasts, case studies and IT product information -- all the IT information and resources you need to make smart enterprise IT purchasing decisions
Helps you to find products, companies, news, chemicals, jobs, literature, software, and events relating to chemistry.
Chmoogle™
Chmoogle™ is the leading open-access chemistry search engine.
NASA Galaxie-Glenn Library
NASA GALAXIE is the integrated information system for NASA libraries. It indexes books, journals, atlases, conferences, books-on-tape, video recordings, software, images, and print and electronic documents. It can only be accessed from a NASA computer.
PSIgate is a free service that offers access to high quality Web resources in the physical sciences; there are currently 13279 resources in astronomy, chemistry, earth sciences, materials sciences, physics, and science history and policy.
Search engine geared to scientific information.Visual Search
Grokker searches Yahoo! and intelligently clusters information into concepts related to the text entered.
KartOO is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, KartOO launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps through a proprietary algorithm.
Groups web search results visually/spatially in clusters.
WebBrain lets you search the Web visually, so you can explore a dynamic picture of related information, instead of searching through long lists of text.
