General Search Engines

• AlltheWeb
• Alta Vista
• Google

Subject Directories

• BUBL Link
  Scholarly sources from the University of Bath.
• Infomine
  Scholarly sources compiled by University of California and California State University librarians
• Librarians' Index
  Annotated collection of high-quality links; selected by California public librarians
• Scout Report Archives
  Collection of "resources of interest to researchers and educators" from Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison.
• WWW Virtual Library
  Compliation of links on many topics from around the world.
• Yahoo
  Large, unevaluated, collection of links

Specialized Search Engines

For Specific Geographic Areas:

• Regional and Special Search Engines:
  by the NTU Library, Singapore
• Country-Specific Search Engines:
  by Search Engine Watch

Government and Law Search Engines:

Note: For legal subjects, government and law search engines overlap. Also, many government Websites have their own search engines.

• GPO Access
  From Government Printing Office. Searches selected databases
• FindLaw
  Searches U.S. government sites and selected databases
• FirstGov
  Searches online U.S. government resources
• LawCrawler:
  From FindLaw. Searches legal Web sites and databases
• Search-It-All
  special search engine for U.S. government Websites.
• Uncle Sam
  from Google. U.S. government Websites.

News

• RocketNews
  from Rocketinfo. Searches current (five days) online news sources.

Database Directories

• Direct Search
  Compiled by Gary Price, MLIS, George Washington University. Subject guide to databases.
• Search Systems
  From Pacific Information Resources. Links to over 7,760 public records databases. Includes U.S. (federal, state, territories and local), Canada (nation and province) and worldwide.

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