Search the Web

Search Engines - General

• Google
  Google has the largest database of Web pages, including many other types of Web documents (e.g., PDFs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint documents).
• Search Engine Guide
  "The guide to search engines, portals, and directories."

Search Engines - Specialized

• Chemspider.com
  Free search engine for structure-based chemistry information.
• USA.gov
  Official U.S. gateway to all federal government information. Includes search engine and subject directory.
• Science.gov
  Gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.
• Scirus.com
  Billed as "the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet" and designed to search over 450 million science-specific Web pages, including .edu, .gov, .org, and .ac.uk domains as well as thousands of additional science, technology and medicine (STM) and University sites.
• Google News
  Search and browse 4,500 news sources updated continuously.

Subject Directories

• INFOMINE
  INFOMINE is an annotated library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. Compiled by university and college-level academic librarians.
• Librarian's Index
  Provides a well-organized access to librarian-selected Internet resources.
• USA.gov
  Official U.S. gateway to all federal government information. Includes search engine and subject directory.
• Invisible Web
  Includes resources that are informative, of high quality, and contain worthy information from reliable information providers that are not visible to general-purpose search engines.

Last updated November 10, 2008