Search Engines 

This is the search engine linked to BESS.

Answers are vetted for appropriateness.  No site that is on Surfwatch's block list will be available to the user.

Designed for ages 7-12.  Sites are handpicked.  Advertising banners are
also kid friendly.

Backed by librarians. Lists 5000 web sites in various categories.

One of the largest search engines on the web.  Wide range of power searching tools makes it a favorite among researchers.

A human powered search engine that seeks to answer questions written in plain English (natural language.)

An all Internet search and multiole search engine directory tool.

Self-dubbed "a popularity engine," it measures what people click on in search results.  Sites that are clicked on more often rise higher in the rankings and are listed toward the top of the hits.

A fairly large index which integrates non-web material such as company information and sports scores.

Produced by Infoseek and Disney.  Provides quality results for general and broad searches.

A search enginge organized by topic.

A favorite among researchers due to its many power searching features that allow the user to set the parameters of the search.

Directory and keyword searches.

Features a large index and the ability to cluster documents by topic.  Also has a "special collection" of  documents which are not readily accessible to search engine spiders.

Oingo.com is powered by Applied Semantics' CIRCA Technology which is based on an extensive ontology of millions of words, meanings, and their conceptual relationships to other meanings in a semantic network that is constantly changing to reflect the currency of everyday language. Once a query is submitted, their interpretive algorithm parses it and the output is filtered to derive the optimal result.

Sailor is a project of the Maryland Public Libraries, intended to provide free access to information in digital formats in Maryland public libraries and on the Internet to Maryland residents.

The web's most popular search service.  A human-compiled guide to the web.  Over one million sites listed.

Compiles results from other     search engines. One of the  oldest on the Internet.

Can customize the list of search  engines used.