The Internet is full of information, loads of information, tons of information, sometimes too much information! To learn more about searching, check out our advice using search tools effectively.

The search boxes below provided shortcuts to some popular and useful search tools. Just enter your search words in the box and click on the Search button to run your search.

Directories

Britannica
Search Britannica's directory of the great web sites, Encyclopedia Britannica articles and magazine articles.

Open Directory
This large and very popular directory is compiled by volunteers.

Yahoo!
One of the most popular directories on the Web.

Search Engines

Google!
This huge search engine indexes over 1 billion Web pages and generally finds very relevant results.

AltaVista
Indexes over 350 million Web pages. AltaVista's image search feature is very handy. Offers advanced searching options.

Select language: any language English Chinese Czech Danish Dutch Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Spanish Swedish

HotBot
Another huge search engine indexing over 500 million Web pages. Lots of easy to use search options in HotBot's advanced search.

Look for: all the words any of the words exact phrase the page title the person links to this URL Boolean phrase Date: anytime in the last week in the last 2 weeks in the last month in the last 3 months in the last 6 months in the last year in the last 2 years
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Meta Search Engines

Ixquick Meta Search
Searches 14 different search tools at once. Retrieves the top 10 results from each tool and combines them in a single list. Results are given a star for each top 10 list that they appear in. Sites with the most stars are listed first.