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Specialist Search Engines

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Deep Web Searching

Most useful for in-depth information or answers, particularly academic. Also when after reference materials.

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Children’s Search Engines

    • ALA Great Web Sites for Kids
      ‘An organized directory of sites selected by members of the American Library Association using rigorous evaluation guidelines.’
    • Ask For Kids
      ‘Answers [have been] vetted for appropriateness.’
    • Awesome Library
      ‘30 000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.’
    • Dibdabdoo
      ‘A smarter, safer way to search the Internet.’
    • Family Source
      ‘Searching 955 235 family safe web pages.’
    • Ivy’s Search Engine Resources for Kids
      ‘Here you will find search forms for the major Internet search engines for kids. Below these are Internet search engine links, links to web guides for kids, some specialized search engine forms and specialized search engine links of interest to kids. At the bottom there are links to family friendly or general WWW filtered search engines and links to more pages like this.’
      Excellent !
    • KidsClick
    • Kids.net.au
      A huge database of suitable sites and information.
    • Kids Search Tools
      Search a variety of “children’s” engines from the one page.
    • Know Play
      Links to atlases, dictionaries, encyclopaedias, world information, art information, acronyms and other language help.
    • Kids & Teens
      [Open Directory Project]
      ‘Kids and Teens is targeted for audiences 18 and under. Please note that this directory is For kids and Not About kids.’
    • Sensei
      Australian site linked to Sensis. Has search [web, images, news, dictionary, wikipedia], converter, calculator, Parental information, Teacher information, lessons to develop search skills, scrapbook help and more.
    • TekMom
      A listing of suitable search engines for younger people. Includes a number for specific study areas.
    • Yahooligans

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Specialist Search Engines

Access specific topics & learning areas.
  1. Animals :
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  2. The Arts :
  3. Blogs, Forums & Message Boards :
    • BoardReader
      Web forums and message boards.
    • Bloglines
    • CataList
      The Official Catalogue of LISTSERV Lists.
    • Keotag
      Designed to use keywords to search blogs and bookmarking sites to find exactly what you want.
    • Sphere
    • TagJag !
      Essentially similar to Keotag.
    • Topica
      Newsletters & discussions.
  4. Books :
    • AbeBooks
      ‘The world’s largest online marketplace for books, lists over 100 million new, used, rare, and out of print books from more than 13 500 booksellers.’
    • AddALL
      ‘Book Search and Price Comparison.’
    • Biblioz
      Book search wizard.
    • Bookfinder.com
      ‘Compare prices on over 125 million books for sale.’ From new to out of print, from international to textbooks.
    • Google Book Search
      ‘Search the full text of books to find ones that interest you and learn where to buy or borrow them.’
    • Search Inside the Book
      ‘Allows you to search millions of pages to find exactly the book you want to buy. With Search Inside!, search results will include titles based on every word inside the book. Search Inside! results are displayed interspersed with results that match the title and/or author of the book.’ Part of Amazon.
  5. Business :
    • AardvarkBusiness
      ‘Best business Web sites from around the world’.
    • Business.com
      The Business Search Engine®.
    • Gobango
    • Jayde.com
      The B2B Search Engine
    • Kompass
      ‘2.2M companies in 70 countries referenced by 54 000 product & service keywords 822 000 trade names and 4.2M executive names.’
    • ZoomInfo
      ‘ZoomInfo is the premier business information search engine, with profiles on more than 35 million people and 3.8 million companies. ZoomInfo delivers a single site for quick and easy access to in-depth information on industries, companies, people, products, services and jobs.’
  6. Computing & IT :
  7. Database Searching :
  8. Education - See the Education Search Engine Page for this area.
  9. Graphics :
  10. Journals, Documents & Magazines :
  11. Legal Matters :
  12. Media :
  13. Medical :
    • See the Medicine page for a range of these.
    • Entrez
      Cross-database search page.
    • Intute
      Previously Omni. Now absorbed by Intute.
  14. News :
  15. PDF Documents :
    • Clickerado
      ‘Summarized document in Adobe PDF format on the World Wide Web.’
    • Search PDF
      1 000 000+ .pdf documents.
  16. Politics & Government :
  17. ‘Social/Vertical’ Search Engines :
    • Eurekster
      ‘Eurekster created the Swicki platform which allows web publishers to build community-driven social search engines, called “swickis” that aggregate information on particular topics from any site of their choice for use on their websites.’
    • Grokker
      ‘A web-based enterprise search management platform that leverages the power of federated content access and visualization ’
  18. Sciences, The :
  19. Sport :
  20. Travel :
    • Dohop
      ‘Searches 660+ airlines around the world for best flights and connections’.
    • Expedia
      Covers all aspects of travel from and within Australia.
  21. World, The :
  22. Others :
    • Search Engines & Specialized Directories
      A really extensive listing broken down into groupings such as Ask a Question and Web Archives.
    • Fact200
      [An Internet Research Tool]
      ‘Fact200 is both an Internet search client and a news feed reader that concentrates on finding, sifting, and browsing information while filtering out noise and junk. It is ideal for browsing through massive amounts of web pages [e.g., browsing news feeds] or for researching esoteric subjects.’
    • Free Bibliographies …
      [And Bibliographic Databases on the Web]
    • Galaxy - Directory
    • Mangle Random Link Generator
    • OAIster
      ‘OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources. We provide access to these digital resources by “harvesting” their descriptive metadata.’
    • Searchme
      ‘Searchme let’s you see what you’re searching for. As you start typing, categories appear that relate to your query. Choose a category and you’ll see pictures of web pages that answer your search.’
    • Teldir
      Online phone books.
    • World Brain Book
      ‘A link to live and recorded knowledge. We are a dictionary of human knowledge - occupations, sports, and hobbies - interests, experiences and achievements. Search our site to find someone with information or register yourself.’

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