Google Scholar

Google Scholar - Advanced Search

• very good for searching for academic articles

search for articles by:

• author

• publication

• date

• the most popular search engine
• excellent for image search
• use language tools to search across languages
  

Wikipedia

• Free, interactive encyclopedia
• Look things up
• Contribute
• Excellent resource - but remember to use with care and check entries for accuracy.

• dictionary,
• encyclopedia
• web directory
• 'This site is a compilation based on Wikipedia, DMOZ and other sources and is not affiliated under Wikipedia'

Netscape Search Center

AOL search

• general
• celebrity search
• movie search

• fast, comprehensive
• the only real competitor to google
• yahoo webmail better than all others even than google mail

• free search engine optimisation for your website
• metatag analyser

• shows information in a different way - try it!
• gives you a map of links for each search
• addictive search engine

• searches in any language
• browse by category

• searches by question & answer
• web
• images
• news
• blog
• maps

• tools
• blogs
• free angelfire webspace
• games

MSN

• news

• messenger - gradually losing out to skype

• hotmail

• learning and research channel

alltheweb

• web

• news
• video
• pictures
• audio

• advanced search

Mirago

• focus on the UK

• good for finding educational courses & resources