Academic Resources.Net online research and reference

Meta-Search Sites on the Internet

Academic Info
     Gateway to selected online educational resources.
Academic Resources.Net:  Search Engine Directory
     Includes links to search engines, metacrawlers, search pages and related sites.
All-in-One Search Page
     Offers hundreds of search engines at one site.
All the Web
     Search 300 million Web pages in under 1/2 second.
The BigHub.com
     This site offers a megasearch (a simultaneous search of 9 major search engines), and hundreds of specialty search engines divided by categories.
E-Blast
     This is a list of Web sites recommended by Encyclopedia Britannica.
Front Page Engines
     Directory of search engines.
INFOMINE
     A large directory  to Web resources of relevance to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level.  Links are not annotated.
Inter-Links Internet Access
     A directory to Web resources.
The Internet Public Library
     An online library and reference site.
Langenberg - Search and Get There Faster
     A major search site with 25 pages of search engines.
Librarians’ Index to the Internet
     A list of Web sites reviewed by the librarians at Berkeley.
Links2Go
     Search the best of the Web in 100 popular topics.
LookSmart
     Excellent directory to Web.
LSU Libraries Subject Guides
     This is a directory to quality sites but  it is lacking a search engine.
Lycos
     Top sites recommended by Lycos.
Magellan
     This full-service site offers a subject guide and a search engine that can search the entire Web or their database of high-quality sites.
RefDesk.com
     A giant directory to over 8,000 reference sites.
Scout Report Signpost
     Funded by the National Science Foundation, this excellent site offers numerous search options of over 7,000 recommended sites.
Search.com
     Offers hundreds of specialty search engines.
W3 Search Engines
     A meta-index of search engines.
Wired Cybrarian
     This site features hundreds of useful search engines to make searching easier.
World-Wide Web Virtual Library
     The WWW Virtual Library is compiled by volunteers who are experts in their field.  This extensive directory covers all the major topics.   It can be searched by subject, alphabetically or with a keyword search using their search engine.
Yahoo
     Yahoo is the largest and perhaps the best directory on the Internet at this time.  It's vast coverage encompasses almost every topic in depth.