WWW Search Engines and Directories Links

• How to Search
• Search Engines
• Directories
  • People Search & Directories
  • Phone Directories
  • Mail/Physical Address Directories
• See alsoSearch Indexer/Engine Servers
• See alsoSubject Indexes and Collections

How to Search

Bare Bones 101 (Ellen Chamberlain)

http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml

Choose the Best Search... (Debbie Abilock)

http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html

Finding Information (Phil Bradley)

http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm

Google Guide: Making Searching Even Easier (Nancy Blachman)

http://www.googleguide.com/

Pandia Search Central

http://www.pandia.com/

Searchability: Guides To Specialized Search Engines

http://www.searchability.com/

Search Engine Showdown: The Users' Guide to Web Searching (Greg Notess)

http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/

Search Engine Watch (Danny Sullivan)

http://searchenginewatch.com/

Web Search (Wendy Boswell)

http://websearch.about.com/

Search Engines

Alexa Web Search

http://www.alexa.com/

AltaVista Search

http://www.altavista.com/

Ask.com [formerly Direct Hit and Teoma and Ask Jeeves]

http://www.ask.com/

Banana Slug (Steve Nelson)

http://bananaslug.com/

Beaucoup

http://www.beaucoup.com/

Bing

http://www.bing.com/

Blekko

http://blekko.com/

The Business Publications Search Engine

http://www.bpubs.com/

DevilFinder

http://www.devilfinder.com/

Dogpile (Aaron Flin)

http://www.dogpile.com/

Duck Duck Go

http://duckduckgo.com/

Excite Search [absorbed McKinley and Magellan]

http://www.excite.com/

Fagan Finder: Image Search Engines

http://www.faganfinder.com/img/

Find Forward

http://www.findforward.com/

Find Sounds

http://www.findsounds.com/types.html

Gigablast

http://gigablast.com/

http://www.globalspec.com/

Go (formerly Infoseek)

http://go.com/

Google! (Larry Page)

http://www.google.com/

Google Groups [Usenet Archive; formerly Deja and Deja News]

http://groups.google.com/

Google Scholar

http://scholar.google.com/

InfoCom

http://info.com/

ITools (formerly Find-It!)

http://www.itools.com/

Langenberg (Chuck Langenberg)

http://www.langenberg.com/

Linx - The text web browser

http://lynx.isc.org/

Lumerias [video search engine]

http://www.lumerias.com/

Lycos

http://www.lycos.com/

Mamma

http://mamma.com/

Metacrawler

http://www.metacrawler.com/

Origin Search [genealogy search engine] (Ian Galbraith)

http://www.originsnetwork.com/

QueryCat [FAQ search engine]

http://www.querycat.com/

search.com (cnet)

http://www.search.com/

Search Engine Colossus [international directory of search engines] (Bryan Strome)

http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/

Search Systems [public records]

http://www.searchsystems.net/

SlideFinder [PowerPoint slides search engine]

http://www.slidefinder.net/

WebCrawler

http://www.webcrawler.com/

Wolfram|Alpha [knowledge-based computational search engine]

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

ZabaSearch - Free People Search and Public Information Search Engine

http://www.zabasearch.com/

Zuula

http://zuula.com/

Directories

People Search & Directories

FAQ: How to find people's E-mail addresses (David Alex Lamb)

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/finding-addresses/

Is this your name?

http://www.isthisyour.name/

People Search (Lycos)

http://peoplesearch.lycos.com/

Pipl[limited free search]

http://pipl.com/

Yahoo People Search

http://people.yahoo.com/

Phone and Address Directories

Address.com

http://www.address.com/

Any Who

http://www.anywho.com/

Argali White and Yellow Pages (Boris Katz)

http://www.argali.com/

BigBook [formerly SuperPages]

http://www.bigbook.com/

Infobel [telephone directories on the Web]

http://www.infobel.com/en/world

Lookup Directory (Melissa Data)

http://www.melissadata.com/Lookups/index.htm

People by Name (type in phone number to identify name)

http://www.peoplebyname.com/

Reverse Directory

http://reversedirectory.langenberg.com/

Search the Government

https://www.usa.gov/

Superpages [formerly InfoSpace]

http://www.superpages.com/?SRC=insp

Switchboard

http://www.switchboard.com/

That's Them - a 100% free people search site

https://thatsthem.com/name-address-search

Yellow Pages [formerly Smart Pages]

http://www.yellowpages.com/

White Pages

http://www.whitepages.com/

WolframAlpha - computational knowledge engine

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Zoom Info: Find People and Companies

http://www.zoominfo.com/

Mail/Physical Address Directories

Addresses.com

http://www.addresses.com/

Free Zip Code Power Tools

http://www.usadata.com/resources/zipcode.html

Look up a Zip Code (U.S. Postal Service)

https://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupAction!input.action

National Address Server: U.S. Postal Address Information (Ajay Shekhawat)

http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/adserv.html

White Pages

http://www.whitepages.com/