Internet Search Engines
Mocavo.com, genealogy search engine, Free but premium services available: www.mocavo.com
A selection of search engines dedicated to searching for specific interests or key words. Each has its own unique method of searching, storing and displaying website addresses (URLs) for search purposes.
Google: www.google.com Google.ca, Canadian Edition: www.google.ca
Bing: http://bing.com
Duck Duck Go: http://duckduckgo.com
Yahoo (currently using Bing): www.yahoo.com Yahoo, Canadian Edition: www.yahoo.ca
Excite search engine & directory: www.excite.com
Search.com: www.search.com
Blekko: http://blekko.com
Other Engines: meta searches and special-purpose search tools.
Dogpile, meta search, gives results from several search engines at once – including Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Ask: http://dogpile.com
Yippy (formerly Clusty), searches search engine for ‘deep web’ results : http://search.yippy.com
Mamma.com, one of (or the) first meta-search engines (1996), originally Canadian: www.mamma.com
Zuula: http://zuula.com
Wolfram Aphra, an ‘answer engine’ – answers factual queries by computing the answer from structured data. (Needs an up to date browser): www.wolframalpha.com
Twitter Search: http://search.twitter.com
Acronym Finder, for abbreviations, acronyms, initialisms and : www.acronymfinder.com
Search Engine Colossus, search engines for 311 countries and territories: www.searchenginecolossus.com
The Wayback Machine, at InternetArchive.org, search for websites and pages no longer on the ‘Net. 150 billion web pages archived from 1996 to now: www.archive.org/web/web.php
Ask, search engine and new* ask questions for real people to answer: www.ask.com
More Information On-line
The 10 Best Search Engines of 2012, Paul Gil, About.com: http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/navigatingthenet/tp/top_10_search_engines_for_beginners.htm
Research Buzz – a webmaster favourite – “news about search engines, digital archives, online museums, databases, and othe Internet information collections since 1998”: www.researchbuzz.org/r/
CyndisList, Search Engines, links to information and to search sites: www.cyndislist.com/search.htm
And two more more helpful tools – if you find a site referenced but it doesn’t seem to be working, try
Down For Everyone or Just Me? to check if the website is really down for everyone (or if it might be you): http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com
And, if it seems to be truly ‘down’ or worse, gone altogether, copy the URL, then go to the WayBack Machine to see if there are archived copies of the website or page that you can view: http://archive.org/web/web.php