Searching the Internet is often very frustrating because there's no overall organization. An Internet search can often be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Fortunately there are several search tools that help you to find the information you need.

Search Engines are good for specific, narrow topics.

Subject Directories are helpful if you have a broad topic or if you want to browse.

Choose one of the Best-of-the-Web Directories when you want quality, evaluated sites.

Check out the Phone Book Directories if you need to locate a person, their street or e-mail address, and phone number, or if you are looking for a business.

Multimedia search sites can help you retrieve sights and sounds.

Don't know which tool to use? Finding Information guides you to the right one.

Search Engines

Recommended:

Google

Ask.com

 

AfterVote -- http://www.aftervote.com

AltaVista -- http://www.altavista.com

Ask.com -- http://www.ask.com/

ChaCha -- http://www.chacha.com

Clusty -- http://www.clusty.com

Dogpile: A Multi-Engine Search Tool -- http://www.dogpile.com

Draze MetaSearch -- http://www.draze.com

Excite -- http://www.excite.com
Exalead.com -- http://www.exalead.com/search

Freeweb Central -- http://www.freewebcentral.com

Go.com -- http://go.com/
Google -- http://www.google.com
HotBot -- http://www.hotbot.com/

Ixquick -- http://ixquick.com/eng/

Lycos -- http://www.lycos.com

Metacrawler -- http://www.metacrawler.com

netTrekker -- http://www.nettrekker.com

Northernlight -- http://www.northernlight.com

Proteus Search Site -- http://www.thrall.org/proteus.html

StumbleUpon -- http://www.stumbleupon.com

Technorati -- http://www.technorati.com

Uncover the Net -- http://www.uncoverthenet.com

WebCrawler -- http://www.webcrawler.com

WolframAlpha -- http://www.wolframalpha.com/

37.com -- Searches 37 Search Engines -- http://www.37.com

 

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Subject Directories

Librarian's Index to the Internet -- http://lii.org

Yahoo! -- http://www.yahoo.com

Internet Public Library -- http://www.ipl.org

My Virtual Reference Desk -- http://www.refdesk.com

Galaxy -- http://www.galaxy.com/

DMOZ - Open Directory Project -- http://www.dmoz.org

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Best-of-the-Web Directories

Best of the Web -- http://www.botw.org
The Web's Best Directory -- http://www.webs-best-directory.com

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Phone Directories

Worldwide Telephone Directory -- http://www.infobel.com/teldir/teldir.asp?page=/eng/

BigBook -- http://www.bigbook.com

White Pages -- http://www.whitepages.com/

WhoWhere? -- http://www.whowhere.lycos.com

Switchboard -- http://www.switchboard.com

Four 11 -- http://people.yahoo.com

BigFoot's Global E-Mail Directory -- http://www.bigfoot.com

Big Yellow: Where People and Businesses Meet -- http://www.bigyellow.com
Yellow Pages -- http://www.yellowpages.com

Image & Multimedia Sites

The websites that follow are controlled by their respective providers and are not controlled by Del Mar College. While these sites provide useful content, please be advised that they may also contain offensive material.

Images

Ask.com Image Search -- http://www.ask.com/#subject:img|pg:1

Google Images -- http://images.google.com

Video

Ask.com Movie Search -- http://www.ask.com/#subject:mov|pg:2

Google Video -- http://video.google.com

Yahoo! Video -- http://video.yahoo.com

Audio

Yahoo! Music -- http://music.yahoo.com/

Miscellaneous

Lycos Media -- http://www.lycos.com -- Click Images & Video Tab

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