Blach Library:   Links to Search the Web

All the Web
    A new, fast, and powerful search engine. Includes special features for music and multimedia sites.

Alta Vista
    This is one of the most powerful Internet searchers available.  Includes many special options and
    features.

Artigen
    This is a search engine that focuses on a limited number of high quality sources.  Includes many
    sources from Great Britain.

Ask Jeeves
    Ask Jeeves searches through other search engines and comes up with answers to your questions.  It
    allows you to easily midify your search.

Excite
    Generally a fast and easy to use Web searcher.

Google
    A new search engire which is very fast and very powerful.

Hotbot
    Uses fast, parallel search technology. Searches the full text of its entire Internet collection.  It's
    especially useful in finding people.   Be sure to review the "Help" file for better use.

Infoseek
    One of the official search engines of Netscape.  Their Helpful Tips section gives you more information
    on formulating queries.

LookSmart Search
    Search the web by keyword or by subject.

Lycos
    Has a reputation for its large, extensive coverage of the Web.

Magellan
    A very helpful robot that searches the Internew on your command.  This searcher offers ratings of the search
    results, with excellent descriptions as well.

Mamma
    The "Mother of all search engines".  Options allow you to search through newspapers or images.

MetaCrawler/GoToNetGuide
    The MetaCrawler/GoTo sends your searches to a number of other search engines, organizes the results into a
    uniform format, and displays those that it feels are the most useful.  Recommended by the U.C. Berkeley
    Teaching Library.

Northern Light
    Organizes its search results into convenient folders.  Options allows you to search through newspapers and
    specific news sections.

Search.Com
    A well-organized collection of search engines, with general and specialized searching capabilities.  Fun to use!

SearchEdu.com/
 This search engine specializes in searching education websites.  It also has links to its other specialized searchers
   focused on books, government and military sites.

 Searchopolis
   Divided into Elementary School, Middle School, and High School curricula, this search engine is designed to aid the
   student easily find subject related information in grades k-12.

 WebCrawler
   One of the earliest Internet "search engines", WebCrawler is fast, unless it's busy...

Yahoo
    A directory of places on the World Wide Web, organized according to subject, and searchable by key word.