Search Engines / Web Directories
Answers.com - a leading question and answer search tool
about.com - A subject directory that limits the results on the categories provided to help you better find exactly what you're looking for. Many of the articles found using this search tool are written by people considered experts in their particular fields.
Sweet Search - A search engine created specifically for students by librarians and teachers. Over 35,000 Web sites have been chosen for their reliability.
WolframAlpha.com - A computational knowledge search engine that provides statistical and historical data. For example: Type in "Kansas crime rate" and you see we had 4131 crimes per 100,000 people in 2007
Librarians' Internet Index - a directory of over 20,000 entries maintained by librarians and organized into 14 main topics and nearly 300 related topics
Google Scholar - Searches for scholarly literature. This search engine aims to sort articles the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each article, the author, the publication in which the article appears, and how often the piece has been cited in other scholarly literature. The most relevant results will always appear on the first page.
bing.com - Microsoft's search engine
TekMom - a search tool with resources for K-8 students and teachers, including kids' search engines, encyclopedias, biographies, images, dictionaries, and more
KidsClick - a site created by librarians for kids to do web searches
askkids.com - a search engine designed exclusively for young people. Quickly and easily research school topics like science, math, geography, language arts, and history in a search environment that's safer and more age-appropriate than traditional, adult search engines.
Webcrawler - a metasearch engine that brings users the top search results from Google, Yahoo!, Windows Live, Ask and other popular search engines.
Dogpile - Powered by metasearch technology, Dogpile returns all the best results from leading search engines including Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Ask
TeenSpace - Internet Public Library for Teens
iTools - Quick access to research, reference tools on the Internet
ask.com - Lets you use a more intuitive way to search by simply typing in a complete question instead of a list of keywords