Requirement: A Few Good Hits, Fast

• Google http://www.google.com
• IxQuick http://ixquick.com
• Fossick http://fossick.com/MetaSearch.htm

Requirement: Broad Academic Subject Search

• Infomine http://infomine.ucr.edu/Main.html
• Librarians' Index to the Internet http://lii.org
• Northern Lights http://www.northernlight.com
• Britannica Encyclopedia http://www.britannica.com

Requirement: Popular or Commercial Topic Search

• Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com
• dmoz http://dmoz.org
• GO http://www.go.com/WebDir

Requirement: General Keyword Search

• HotBot Super Search
  • http://hotbot.lycos.com/?MT=&SM=MC&DV=0&RG=all&RD=RG&DC=10&DE=
    2&act.super=More+Search+Options&_v=2&OPs=MDRTP
• FAST http://www.ussc.alltheweb.com
• SurfWax http://www.surfwax.com/servlet/home
• Excite http://www.excite.com
• Altavista http://www.altavista.com

Requirement: My Search Has Been Done Before...

• Ask Jeeves! http://www.askjeeves.com
• Direct Hit http://www.directhit.com

Requirement: Quality Evaluated Guides Prepared by a “Subject Expert”

• About.com http://home.about.com/index.htm
• AlphaSearch http://www.calvin.edu/library/searreso/internet/as
• WWW Virtual Library http://vlib.org/Overview.html
• Argus Clearinghouse http://www.clearinghouse.net/index.html
• BUBL Link http://bubl.ac.uk/link/ddc.html

Requirement: Information from Verified Sources

• Nueva's Library Catalog
  • http://209.233.38.4/uhtbin/cgisirsi/QjkwNDP667/12767005/60/69
  • http://209.233.38.4/uhtbin/cgisirsi/0buf8KXGFH/0/49

Requirement: Often Ignored Word Search

• InfoSeek http://infoseek.go.com

Requirement: A PinPoint Search

• Altavista http://www.altavista.com

Requirement: Information on a Proper Name

• Altavista http://www.altavista.digital.com
• Infoseek http://www.infoseek.com
• HotBot SuperSearch http://www.hotbot.com/?MT=&SM=MC&DV=0&RG=all&RD=
  RG&DC=10&DE=2&act.super= More+Search+Options&_v=2&OPs=MDRTP

Requirement: Biographical Information

• Biographical Dictionary http://www.s9.com/biography/
• Biography.com http://www.biography.com/search/
• Lives http://amillionlives.com

Reqirement: US Government Information

• FedWorld http://www.fedworld.gov/

Requirement: Hard to FindorLate Breaking News

• 1st Headlines http://1stheadlines.com
• Yahoo News http://dailynews.yahoo.com
• Northern Lights Current News http://www.northernlight.com/news.htm

Requirement: Current Information from Magazines or Newspapers

• ProQuest Direct http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb      (fee based, unless accessed thru library site)
  
• Yahoo Full Coverage http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com
• AJR NewsLink http://ajr.newslink.org
• News Directory http://www.newsd.com
• TotalNEWS http://www.totalnews.com/_main.htm
• Northern Lights http://www.northernlight.com/news.htm

Requirement: Accurate Information on Hot Topics

• Social Issues http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/sochc.html
• BIOTN http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Hot/hotindex.htm

Requirement: Perspectives from Outside the US

• Regional & Local Search Engines
  • http://websearch.about.com/internet/websearch/ msub12-m02.htm

Requirement: Statistical Data

• Statistical Information http://nuevaschool.org/~debbie/library/cur/math/stats.html

Requirement: Almanac-Type Information

• Information Please http://www.infoplease.com/
• CIA World Factbook http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Requirement: Primary Resources

• Digital Library http://www.digitallibrary.net/resources.asp?id=8
• American Memory http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html
• US History http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/ammem/ndlpedu/resource/history/primary.html
• California Heritage http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/calheritage/
• Perseus Project http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

Requirement: Images, Sounds or other Media

• Amazing Picture Machine http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm
• American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.htm
• FAMSF http://www.thinker.org/fam/thinker.html
• SILS http://www.si.umich.edu/Art_History/search.html
• Lycos MultiMedia http://multimedia.lycos.com
• Altavista (images) http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&stype=simage
• Altavista (audio) http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&stype=saudio
• Altavista (video) http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&stype=svideo
• FindSounds http://www.findsounds.com
• HotBot SuperSearch
  • http://hotbot.lycos.com/?MT=&SM=MC&DV=0&LG=any&DC=10&DE=2&
    act.super.x=127&act.super.y=3
• WebSEEK http://disney.ctr.columbia.edu/webseek/
• Picture/Art Sites http://jr.co.il/hotsites/pictures.htm

Requirement: “Free”orInexpensive Software

• SoftCrawler http://www.data-wizard.de/SoftCrawler/index.php3

Requirement: A Map

• TIGER Map Service http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl
• Map Machine http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/index.html
• MapQuest http://www.mapquest.com
• Cartography Links http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/csites/index.htm

Requirement: A Literary Quotation

• Quotations Page http://www.starlingtech.com/quotes/
• Quoteland http://www.quoteland.com
• Quotations Archive http://www.aphids.com/quotes/index.shtm
• Search Creative Quotations http://www.bemorecreative.com/searchall.shtm
• Barlett http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/

Requirement: Advice or Opinions from Other Net Users

• AskA+ http://www.vrd.org/locator/subject.html
• Pitsco's Ask an Expert http://www.askanexpert.com
• Liszt http://www.liszt.com

Requirement: A Virtual Librarian

• Internet Public Library Reference http://www.ipl.org/ref/QUE/RefFormQRC.html

Requirement: Notice of New Websites as They’re Announced

• Scout Report Signpost http://www.signpost.org/signpost/

Requirement: Searches Updated and Returned Automatically

• Informant http://informant.dartmouth.edu/
• Excite's News Tracker http://www.excite.com/Info/newstr/quickstart.html
• Northern Lights Search Alert Service http://standard.northernlight.com/cgi-bin/cl_alert.pl