Favorite Search Tools

Looking for a search tool to speed your quest for information? Sometimes selecting the right tool makes all the difference. Recall the old saying, "to a man with a hammer, every problem is a nail." We can do better! The tools listed below include an annotation about what they are designed to find.

Search tools:	To find:
ABC News Country Profiles	Information about countries around the world.
Anywho.com	Search for people or businesses similar to using white pages and yellow pages.
AJR Newslink Magazines	A search tool for magazine articles
AJR Newslink Newspaper Index	A search engine for newspaper articles
Altavista	Anything and everything (make sure to use Boolean operators + and - to avoid excessive and/or irrelevant hits)
Altavista Photo & Media Finder	Find images and video clips
The Bartleby Library	Literature available on the Internet
BBC Education Webguide	Links to teaching resources catalogued by the BBC
Biographical Dictionary	Biographies
Biography.com	Biographies
Blue Web'n	Web links to teaching resources catalogued by content and type of activity
Broadcast.com	A place to find radio or television broadcasts (many of which may be monitored online!)
C\|Net Download	To find downloadable software (connects to other C\|Net, too)
Disney	Resources for elementary children
Ditto.com	A site that can search for images stored on the web.
DogPile.com	MetaSearch tool - perform your search with several search engines simultaneously
Earthcam	Live images from around the world
Excite	General purpose search tool and index of the Internet
The Exploding Dictionary	This online place to look up a word returns definitions from at least three different dictionaries - it is the meta-search tool among dictionaries.
Filez	Downloadable shareware and freeware
Go.com	General purpose search tool and index of the Internet
Google	MetaSearch tool - perform your search with several search engines simultaneously
Hoover's Online	Information about companies/businesses
HotBot	General purpose search tool and index of the Internet
InfoSeek	General purpose search tool and index of the Internet
Internet Movie Database	Database of information about actors, movies, etc.
KidsClick	A great guided and well-organized site to help kids search and learn about searching and the Internet.
Library of Congress American Memory	Original historical documents in the Library of Congress
Lycos	General purpose search tool and index of the Internet
Magellan	General purpose search for online resources including those that have been reviewed and deemed appropriate for kids.
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection	A database of maps.
searchmil.com	Search for military information.
Vivisimo	This search tool categorizes its findings into "folders" for a more organized view of the results
Who Where	Lycos makes this tool to locate e-mail or phone number & addresses for almost anyone on the web.
yahoo.com	Yahoo is a general purpose index of web sites accompanied with a search engine.