Search Engines

General Science
Site
Description
Usefulness(*)

Biocrawler

Search for biological information

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Biochemlinks

Biology & chemistry searches

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Biolinks

Search with links to journals, organizations, companies and more

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Google for Science

Scientific topics only

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Google all topics

All fields

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NIH web search

National Institute of Health search engine

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On line Research - Sciences

List of scientific links, databanks, encyclopedias etc...

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LookSmart - Science Library

Search in all science fields

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General purpose
Site
Description
Usefulness(*)

About.com2

Net search page / Netscape

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All-in-One Search Page

Click on topic and link to more than 500 search engines, databases etc.

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AltaVista - Search

One of the largest and fastest search engine

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AltaVista World: Home

Countries / geographic regions (limited) search engine and translator

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Ask Jeeves

Net search page / Netscape

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Dogpile

Meta search engine

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Excite

Like Altavista, large & fast

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GO.com

General topics

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GoTo.com

General topics

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Home

Dutch search engine

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HotBot

Like Lycos / containing science fields

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Infoseek

General topics

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Links

Topic search engines (Italian site)

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Links I

Geographic area search engines (Italian site)

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Lycos

General topics

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MSN search

General and field directed search, broad database

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METACRAWL - search site

Meta search engine

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Net Search Page - Excite

General topics

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Northern light

Probably the largest and fastest new engine

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Online Research - Engines

Large list of search engines on specific topics

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Sear.ch

Swiss search machine

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Search.ch

Another Swiss search machine

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WebCrawler

General topics

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Welcome to Magellan!

General topics

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Worldlink

General topics

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Yahoo!

General topics

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Yep

General topics

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People contact
Site
Description
Usefulness(*)

Directories - Unsere Adressen verbinden Menschen

Yellow pages

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Tel.search.ch - Swiss telephone book 

Swiss telephone book

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SWITCHetv

Swiss telephone book

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World Email Directory

Email addresses database

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Topic-oriented
Site
Description
Usefulness(*)

Collection of specific search engines

The largest collection of serch engines for all needs

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Dictionary.com

Dictionary, writing resources, translator etc

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FAST

Click on multimedia search for a huge database of images

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Search engine watch

Guide to using search engines

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Welcome to Photos To Go

Images search engine

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