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Reminder: Web search engines DO NOT replace periodical indexes and databases. If you are looking for journal articles and other scholarly materials, you are best off starting your research in the appropriate periodical index of your discipline. For an online list of periodical indexes/databases (by subject) available to Marquette University, click on Journal Articles, Databases, and Other E-Resources.

Search Engines

Metasearch Engines
search multiple search engines simultaneously

Recommended Search Tools

Freeality.com : www.freeality.com : Searches major engines and provides links to topical indexes

Google : www.google.com : Indexes over 1 billion Web pages

MetaCrawler : www.metacrawler.com : Searches 9 major engines

Alta Vista : www.altavista.com : Indexes 350 million Web pages

Ask AltaVista a question. Or enter a few words in

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Yahoo : www.yahoo.com : Directory of 1.8 million Web pages

Fast : www.alltheweb.com : Indexes over 350 million Web pages

Alphabetical list of Search Engines and Metasearch Engines

Alta Vista : www.altavista.com : Indexes 350 million Web pages

Dogpile : www.dogpile.com : Metasearch of 14 different engines and directories : Description

Excite : www.excite.com : Indexes 250 million Web pages

Fast : www.alltheweb.com : Indexes over 350 million Web pages

Freeality.com : www.freeality.com : Searches major search engines and provides topical links.

Go (Infoseek) : www.infoseek.com : Indexes 50 million Web pages

Google : www.google.com : Indexes over 1 billion Web pages

HighBeam Research : www.highbeam.com : Description

Highway 61 : www.highway61.com : Metasearch of major search engines : Description

HotBot : www.hotbot.com : Indexes 500 million Web pages

Lycos : www.lycos.com : Directory of over 2.2 million Web pages

Quick Tips | Help

MetaCrawler : www.metacrawler.com : Searches 9 major engines

Profusion : www.profusion.com : Searches multiple major engines and directories : Description

Search.Com : www.search.com : Subject directory to over 250 different search engines and directories : Description

Yahoo : www.yahoo.com : Directory of 1.8 million Web pages

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