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Super Search Engines

AltaVista
Includes a comprehensive search service; news, entertainment, financial data, weather, and critical information; and links to various shopping services. This is one of the first search engines available on the web, and now has expanded capabilities including the photo finder and the customizable family filter.

Amazing Picture Machine
A search engine to help you find graphical resources (pictures!) on the Internet.

Amazon
Search for books, music, videos, DVDs, and much more--and then purchase them!

BookFinder
The ultimate resource for book shoppers! Over 20 million new, used, rare, and out-of-print books at your fingertips.

Cybersleuth Kids
An Internet search engine designed just for kids, K through 12.

DogPile
A huge meta search engine that "fetches" sites from a variety of search engines.

FindSounds
A free site where you can search the Web for sound effects and musical instrument samples.

Google
A relatively new meta search engine that claims to include more than 1 billion URLs (web addresses) in its index.

InfoSpace
Here you can search for people and businesses and also conduct specialized web searches.

Langenberg
Links to a multitude of general and specialized search engines.

Librarians' Index to the Internet
A searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 6,500 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. It's meant to be used by both librarians and non-librarians as a reliable and efficient guide to described and evaluated Internet resources.

Mamma
You guessed it--a meta search engine that claims to be the "Mother of All Search Engines"!

Northern Light
A highly regarded web search engine that also offers a Special Collection fee-based search.

Yahoo
A popular index to the Internet that includes free email, shopping links, and more.