Metasearch Engines and Directories
Research made easier, because you don't have time to waste.

Megasearch Engines: Search more than one search engine at the same time.
Directories: Subject listing created and maintained by people.

Metasearch Engines
A9- this is Amazon's metasearch, which includes reference, news, entertainment, wikipedia, amazon.com and live.com searches.

Beaucoup- 2,000+ Search Engines, Indices and Directories

Brain Boost- this is an answer engine rather than a search engine. What that means is that "Brainboost actually finds answers to your questions posed in plain English as opposed to directing you to pages that simply mention the questions.”

Dogpile- search Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Ask, images, white and yellow pages.

Ithaki for Kids-"helps you to find the best sites just for kids via searching in real time several search engines for kids like DmozKids, Yahooligans, FactMonster, ArtKIDSRule, AolKIDS, AwesomeLibrary & KidsClick!"

iTools- search the following all at once: Google, Yahoo!, Search MSN, AOL Search, AltaVista, Lycos, Ask Jeeves, MetaCrawler, AllTheWeb, Visimo Metasearch and Teoma.

Ixquick- they say they are the "world's most powerful metasearch"

KartOO- KartOO is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, KartOO launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps through a proprietary algorithm.

Mamma- "the mother of all search engines".

Megasearch- search by internet websites, security related material search engines, ftp software, mp3, audio & video search engines and images,covers and graphics search engines.

Metacrawler- search Google, Yahoo!, MSN and Ask all at once

Tagjag- search over 3,000 feeds

Turbo 10- “Turbo10 is designed to help you search deeper and browse faster.”

Webscout- find the net's best websites

Directories
Awesome Library-“Awesome Library organizes the Web with 31,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.”

Desk Reference- best online reference sites, from biography to writing.

Dewey Browse- information is classified by Dewey number.

Digital Librarian- a librarian's choice of the best of the web

Ditto- search over 5 million images!

Google Directory

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators- “Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.”

Librarian's Internet Index

Library Spot- “Encyclopedias, maps, online libraries, quotations, dictionaries and more”

Multnomah County Library Homework Center- listed by subject.

Open Directory Project- in partnership with AOL

The WWW Virtual Library

Yahoo! Directory

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