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Search Tools

Links to tools to search on the Internet

Link Google
The top choice for searching the Web
Link Yahoo
Yahoo offers specialized search options
Link Ask.com
Offers many innovative tools to help you get the information you need quickly and easily.
Link Kids Click!
Backed by librarians, KidsClick lists about 5,000 web sites in various categories.
Link AlltheWeb.com
AlltheWeb combines one of the largest and freshest indices with the most powerful search features that allow anyone to find anything faster than with any other search engine.
Link Answers.com
Provides access to fast facts and other information from over 100 reference sources. Formerly called GuruNet.
Link Dogpile
Send search to a customizable list of search engines, directories and specialty search sites, then displays results from each search engine individually.
Link Lycos
The Lycos Network provides web search and navigation, homepage building and web hosting services, web-based e-mail, online games and cutting-edge video platforms.
Link Ixquick
Ixquick's unique capabilities include a Universal Power Search, a global search and power refinement.
Link SurfWax.com
SurfWax's patent-pending design is the first to make searching a "visual process," seamlessly integrating meaning-based search with key knowledge-finding elements for effective association and recall.