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Web Search Engines

General Search Engines
Each of these tools can be used to find web pages containing words matching your search query.

A9
AlltheWeb
AltaVista
AOL
Ask.com
Exalead
Excite
Gigablast
Google
Grokker
HotBot
Lycos
MSN
WiseNut
Yahoo!

Meta-Search Engines
Use these to simultaneously search several Web search engines for web pages that contain words matching your search query.

Clusty
Dogpile
Fazzle
iBoogie
IceRocket
Ixquick
ithaki
jux2
Kart00
Mamma
SurfWax
Vivisimo

Audio Search Engines
Each of these can be used to find audio.

Fazzle Audio Search
FindSounds.com
Singing Fish
Yahoo! Audio Search

Blog/Feed Search Engines
The following tools specifically search the content of blogs:

Bloglines
Feedster
Google Blog Search
IceRocket
Technorati

Image Search Engines
Each of these can be used to find photos and other types of graphics.

Ditto
Google Image Search
Picsearch
Yahoo! Image Search

Invisible Web Search Engines
Tools for searching the vast portion of the Web that is inaccessible to traditional search engines. The Invisible Web refers to dynamically generated web pages that are only accessible by querying a search interface located in a specific web site.

CompletePlanet
Turbo 10

News Search Engines
The following tools search across several news sites:

Google News
MSNBC Newsbot
RocketInfo
topix.net
Yahoo! News

Podcast Search Engines
Use these search engines to find podcasts.

Feedster
Podanza
RocketInfo

Reference Search Engines
These search engines are designed to return information about a topic rather than a list of links.

Answers.com
Brainboost

Speciality Search Engines
Use these engines to search pages from topical subsets of the World Wide Web.

FindLaw LawCrawler
Google Uncle Sam
Health on the Net: MedHunt
Scirus
SearchEdu.com

Video Search Engines
Use these engines to search for video clips.

AOL Video
blinx tv
Google Video
searchforvideo.com
searchvideo
Yahoo! Video

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