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Selected Internet Search Engines Search Engine Database Advanced/ Boolean Other search options Miscellaneous Google Google google.co m Advanced Search Ranks based on popularity (# of pages linked to) Advanced Search Full text of web pages and other documents on the web. AND (default) OR (capitalized) - to remove words or phrases. + to include common words * wildcard to replace word(s) (to * or * ) No truncation. Quotes for phrase. Stems some words (+ to turn off). Fields: intitle:, site:, inurl:, filetype: more. Similar pages - finds related sites. more Language translations. Language translations. ~ searches synonyms (~food) define: finds definitions Tools: math/equivalents calculator, maps, stocks.- moremath/equivalents calculatormapsstocks more Bing Bing bing.com Advanced Search Advanced Search Full text of web pages and other documents on the web. Type up to 150 characters, including spaces, in the search box. AND (default) OR (capitalized) NOT (capitalized) to exclude words No truncation. Quotes for phrase. For dates, type the name of the month instead of the calendar number. Left panel, suggests related searches and shows search history. Translates similar to Google. Use Instant Answers for easy field searching.Instant Answers

Selected Internet Search Engines Search Engine Database Advanced/ Boolean Other search options Miscellaneous Ask.com Ask.com Ask natural language questions as well as keyword searches. Plus: Images, News, Video.NewsVideo Natural language questions, not Boolean searches. Right sidebar offers links to related search results and search history. Provides links to image, news and video searches. Offers AskEraser, a search privacy feature. AskEraser

Selected Internet Meta-Search Engines Meta-Search Engine Database Advanced/ Boolean Other search options Miscellaneous Ixquick Ixquick ixquick.com Searches Ask, All the Web, Yahoo, MSN Live, Exalead, Gigablast, EntireWeb, Open Directory, Wikipedia, and others. Customizable. AND (default), OR, - to exclude. "Translates" complex searches to fit what each search engine "understands." Picture search. Internatl Phone Directory. Star rankings tell how many search engines include a match among their top 10 results. Refine search results by clicking check mark to find more like, and X to exclude pages like a result. ZapMeta ZapMeta zapmeta.com Searches Yahoo, Bing, Cuil, Gigablast, Altavista, Entireweb, among others. AND (default), OR, - to exclude. Clusters on right of search result allow zooming in on subsets of results. Search in English, German or Dutch. Offers related results by domain as well as topic.

Selected Internet Subject Directories Subject DirectoryDatabaseBoolean Other search options Miscellaneous Yahoo Directory Yahoo Directory dir.yahoo.com Sites are submitted to Yahoo!'s team of editors, who visit and evaluate every site added to the Directory. AND (default) OR (capitalize) - to remove. Quotes for phrase. * to truncate. Fields: t:title; u:URL Search specific types of info: News, Sports, Maps, Weather, ShoppingNewsSportsMaps WeatherShopping About.com About.com about.com Content on About.com is written by a network of more than 750 Guides. About.com adds more than 3,000 new content items each week and approximately ten new topics each month. AND (default), OR, NOT, Nesting ( ) Quotes for exact phrase. Browse "channels" (broad subjects like Jobs & Careers) or "topics" (broad keywords).

Selected Internet Subject Directories Subject DirectoryDatabaseBoolean Other search options Miscellaneous Infomine Infomine infomine.ucr.edu Advanced Search and Browse Advanced Search and Browse Scholarly Internet resources, selected and annotated by (mostly) UC librarians. (over 100K). AND (default), OR, NEAR, Nesting ( ) Quotes for phrase; pipes (|term|) for exact word or words; Stemming (can turn on or off in Advanced); * to truncate. Fields: subject; title; author; keyword; description. Can search all databases or individually. Can browse by subjects in each database.