Links Beyond MRSC By Subject
Search Engines
Updated 12/2011
Search Engines
- Altavista
- Ask.com
- Bing - Provided by Microsoft
- Exalead one:search
- Excite
- Find-It Washington - Searches government information in Washington State
- Finder Seeker - Search engine for search engines
- Gigablast
- Go.com - Powered by Yahoo!
- Google Chrome - Available for download; offers faster searching
- Google Scholar Beta - Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature
- HotBot
- Infomine - Scholarly Internet Research Collections
- Lycos
- Reporter's Desktop
- Snap Shots - For adding content to your site
- Yahoo!
See also: Search Engine Showdown - Reviews of search engines
Meta Search Engines
These sites allow one to search multiple search engines in a single search.
- Dogpile
- Ixquick
- Mamma
- Metacrawler - Search the search engines
- Pandia Powersearch
- Search.com
- SurfWax
Web Directories
- About.com
- Dmoz – Open Directory Project
- ipl2 (formerly Librarians' Internet Index)
- Technorati - Blog directory and search engine
- WWW Virtual Library
- Yahoo!
Also, see our Web Searching page, which recommends search strategies for finding local government information and provides search techniques and general reference links.

