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A search engine is a web site which you can use to locate information on the Internet. Some of them give you categories through which you can browse to your heart's content. Others allow you to enter keywords (search terms) to locate specific information.

General Search Engines: for broad searches on a wide range of topics
Google	The most popular keyword search engine
Yahoo	The most popular directory of categories
Excite	A trusted search engine.
Go.com	A configurable web portal and search engine
Lycos	A big player in the search engine game
Teoma	Uses hit frequency information to highlight relevancy ratings
WiseNut	A powerful search engine
Metasearch Engines: for looking across multiple databases
Dogpile	Excellent metasearch engine
Queryserver	A set of meta search engines that provides user options to customize results and groups findings by topic
Vivisimo	Provides comprehensive coverage, finding relevant listings and clusters like listings
Ixquick	Fast, comprehensive and ranks findings by relevance; searches 14 engines
Metor	Searches top ten search engine databases and 24 topic specific metasearch channels
Specialty Search Engines: for deep searches on particular topics
Business.com	Business information
FindArticles	Vast archive of published magazine articles on a wide range of topics
InvisibleWeb	Directory of over 10,000 databases, archives, and search engines that contain information that traditional search engines have been unable to access
LibrarySpot	Best library and reference resources on the Web
Scirus	Search for scientific information
Subject Directory	Subject directory of search engines listed by category

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