For those who have little or no experience searching the Internet, you may wish to begin your search with a directory such as Yahoo! which organizes information under various categories. For those who would like to try using a search engine, HotBot provides an easy to use search screen.

All the Web - www.alltheweb.com/

Aims at being a fast, comprehensive search engine with fresh content.

Alta Vista - www.altavista.com

One of the larger search engines on the Internet. Provides basics and advanced search forms. Users can also choose to search from 14,000 Usenet newsgroups. An image search is available.

Ask - www.ask.com/

A search engine with special search tools for news, weather, images, and encyclopedias.  Some searches provide options to narrow search, expand search, or search for related terms.

Gigablast - http://www.gigablast.com/

Over 2 billion web pages. Offers archived copies of pages in results, and a link to older archived copies through the Wayback Machine."

Excite - www.excite.com

Utilizes concept searching. This search tool will not only look for your search terms, but Excite will automatically search for possible synonyms.

Google - www.google.com

The favorite. Clutter free search interface.  Pages are ranked based on links from other pages.

*HotBot - hotbot.lycos.com

Has powerful search features. Pull-down menus make HotBot's Advanced features easy to use, even for beginners. Advanced Search features an easy search by media content (e.g., RealVideo).

Lycos - www.lycos.com

Permits a range of search types, for example, audio, video, people, and the Web.

Dogpile - www.dogpile.com

A search tool which allows the user to many other search tools simultaneously. Also permits users to search newswires, audio, video, and directories.

Mamma.com - www.mamma.com

Choose among a dozen or so search tools to search at once.  Also includes category searches such as News, Yellow Pages, or Images.

MetaCrawler - www.metacrawler.com/

With this search engine, the user can search many tools with one easy search. Try MetaSpy for fun to see what others are researching.

Search.com - www.search.com

A meta-search engine from CNET which covers dozens of search engines.

Vivísimo - http://vivisimo.com/

Organizes search results into clusters of responses by category.

About.com - www.about.com

A collection of some 700 guides. Each guide is developed and maintained by "certified subject specialists," and contains original content as well as links.

Academic Info - www.academicinfo.us

Internet sites intended for college and university level research.

Infomine - infomine.ucr.edu/Main.html

Links to over 15,000 Internet sites arranged under ten general categories. Organized and maintained by librarians at the University of California. Intended for university-level research.

Librarians' Index to the Internet - www.lii.org

A collection of over 7,200 Internet resources carefully selected by 80 librarians.

Open Directory Project - www.dmoz.org

More than a half million sites selected and categorized by humans. Basic and advanced search features are also available.

WWW Virtual Library - vlib.org/Overview.html

Touted as the oldest catalog on the web, this tool was created by Tim Berners-Lee, the original creator of the World Wide Web. Sites are listed under fourteen different categories.

*Yahoo - dir.yahoo.com

At over 1.5 million web sites, Yahoo qualifies as one of the largest directories on the Internet.

USA - www.usa.gov

The official U.S. government search tool for finding information from local, state, and U.S. government agencies.

Google - US Government Search - http://www.google.com/ig/usgov

Google's specialized government search tool for finding information from local, state, and U.S. government agencies.

Healthfinder - www.healthfinder.gov 

A gateway to popular health issues.  Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

MEdlINEplus - www.medlineplus.gov

A collection of medical related information primarily produced by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

FindLaw - www.findlaw.com

A collection of over 25,000 edited legal Internet sites.  

Scirus - www.scirus.com

A search engine for scientific content in web sites and journal indexes.

Direct Search - http://www.freepint.com/gary/direct.htm

A site by Gary Price that includes hundreds of searchable databases that give the user access to the "invisible Web," Internet resources that can't be located with ordinary search engines.

Wayback Machine - http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

Ever looked for some great page that used to be on the Web, but isn't any more? The Wayback Machine can take you there, with billions of archived pages back to 1996. (Note: if you don't know the URL, try searching in Gigablast, which links to Wayback Machine "archived pages" in its results.

Excite España - www.excite.es/

Busca en el Web por conceptos. Excite busca documentos con sus palabras claves y con otros términos directamente relacionados con esas palabras.

Google - http://www.google.com/intl/es/

Buscador facil para buscar con palabras claves o en su directorio del Web.

LatinGuía - http://www.latinguia.com/search

Buscador que permite una búsqueda de toda la Web o de sitios en español.

Buscamundo - http://www.buscamundo.com/

Directorio de información clasificada en categorías.

Yahoo! en español - espanol.yahoo.com/

Use para localizar sitios del Internet relacionados con un tema.

NetPandora - http://netpandora.com/index.phtml

Un metabuscador latinoamericano.

Toda la Net - http://www.todalanet.net/

"El primer metabuscador completamente en castellano de America Latina y el primero de internet (en castellano) en tener categorías para metabuscar."