Internet Search Tools

Google Beyond the Basic Search

• Advanced Search
  
• Google Scholar
• Google News Timeline
• Google Image Swirl

Explore what happens when you click on one of the links listed under "All Results" on the left-hand side of a Google search results page. "Related searches" will suggest searches that are similar to yours that might provide better results. "Wonder Wheel" converts your search results into a semantic web that allows you to visually dig deeper into your results. "Timeline" provides a graph of dates listed on pages in the results list. This feature is great for history projects.

Other Search Engines

• Bing
• Bing Visual Search
  
• Wolfram|Alpha (for anything involving numbers)
• Twurdy (results ranked by reading level)

• Quntera (explore through visual tag clouds)
• Sweet Search (search engine for students)
  

Directories

• Open Directory
• Google Directory
• Yahoo Directory
• ipl2 (Librarians' Index to the Internet + Internet Public Library)
  
• All My Faves (innovative visual exploration of the Internet)