Try these search engines, directories, and other search tools to look for websites that are of interest to you. If you are a beginning Internet user, it may be helpful to visit our Beginning Internet User's Guide.

Search Engines:


Google
Google searches full text of web pages, as well as .pdf, .doc, .xls, .ps, .wpd, and other file types. This probably is the largest Web search engine. Search results ranking is based on popularity (the number of pages from which your search term is linked).

Yahoo! Search
Yahoo! Search searches full text of web pages, as well as .pdf, .ps, flash, and other file types. This also is a huge search engine. Search results ranking is based on relevancy (the occurrence of search terms).

Ask.com
Ask.com provides relevant search results by identifying the most authoritative sites on the Web selected by subject experts.

Clusty
Clusty groups news stories and websites together by related subjects; expand categories to locate related information.

Directories:


Librarians' Internet Index
Librarians' Internet Index (LII) provides a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy, librarian-selected websites, serving California, the nation, and the world. LII has tens of thousands of entries maintained by librarians and organized into 14 main topics and nearly 300 related topics.
— Search beyond LII

Google Directory
Google Directory allows you to browse the Web by topic, organized into categories.

Other Search Tools:


Infopeople Best Search Tools
A one-page search form containing Infopeople's "best" search tools

Infopeople Best Search Tools Chart
A quick guide to the operators and features of the search engines and other tools recommended by Infopeople