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Bing markets itself as a "decision" engine, rather than a search engine, and places its emphasis on organizing and using information, rather than just finding it. Particularly good at shopping.
Probably the most popular search engine. Google also has secondary search engines for searching Books, Images, Groups, News, Scholarly Information, and over 20 other subcategories.
The second most popular search engine after Google. Yahoo! combines searching with a directory of useful, pre-selected sites allowing the user to drill down from a main category through layers of subcategories to specific topic.
CiteSeerx is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science.
Searches scholarly journals and books, which may or may not be available online. If not online, try you library. If not in your library, use Interlibrary Loan
Currently in public beta, RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers. Limits your search to academic sites, avoiding paid links
Directories start with a broad subject area and let you drill down to specific topics. Great for when you don't know what is out here or how it is organized. Hierarchical arrangement.
Not only “kid safe”, it’s “kid friendly”- allowing the searcher to limit by age. Chose between five categories - School House, movies, games, images, and video.
A safe, google alternative for selected information and reference sites: art, social sciences,social issues,social problems, history, biography, magazines, ...
This search engine limits itself to sites judged “reliable” by education experts, including librarians. Search on all topics or limit your search to Social Studies, Biographies, SweetSites (organized by grade and subject area), School Librarians, and Sweet Search 4 Me (for elementary school students).
Searches Google, Yahoo!, Bing (formerly Live Search), Ask.com, About.com, MIVA, LookSmart and other popular search engines. MetaCrawler also provides users the option to search for images, video, news, yellow pages and white pages.
