Search the Internet
Use a search engine to look for specific information on a wide range of topics in the online environment.
| search engine | |
| Google A very popular search engine that also includes dedicated products for searching news, images, maps, scholarly research papers. It is the home of email service Gmail and allows the user to refine searching to Australian sites only. |
| Yahoo The oldest web directory and second most popular, Yahoo provides news and many social networking features. Also allows for narrowing of search to Australian content. |
| Metacrawler Searches across the databases of the following search engines: AltaVista, Excite, GoTo.com, Infoseek, LookSmart, Lycos, Thunderstone, and WebCrawler |
| Ask.com Offers search for web sites, images, news, blogs, video, maps, directions, local search and shopping |
| Altavista Provides the most comprehensive search experience on the web! Search worldwide or select a country and get results in all ;languages. |
| The search engine list Comprehensive list of search engines |
| Creative commons search Please note that search.creativecommons.org is not a search engine, but rather offers convenient access to search services provided by other independent organisations. |
To keep up to date with what is new in search engines, SearchEngineWatch.com has current information on different Search Engines and databases plus good historical coverage as search engines change direction and ownership.
