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General Search Engines

• Baidu
• Bing, MSN
• DuckDuckGo
• Excite, MindSpark
• Google
• Wolfram Alpha
• World Wide Web Virtual Library
• Yahoo!

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MetaIndexes and Combination Searchers

• Ixquick, StartPage
• Mamma, Empresario
• search.com, CBS Interactive
• StartPage, aka Ixquick
• WebCrawler, InfoSpace
• Yippy!

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"Academic" Searchers

• See also: Subject Specific
• Google Scholar
• Microsoft Academic Search
• Scirus, Elsevier
• JURN
• Faculty of 1000, post-publication peer-review
• Arnetminer, academic researcher social network
• CiteUlike
• Article Level Metrics, PLOS

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Blogs / RSS Searchers

Country / Domain Based

Collective Resources

• List of Google [localized and regional] domains, Wikipedia
• Google ccTLDs and associated Languages & codes Reference Sheet, David Sottimano

Americas

• Government of Canada Search
• Yahoo! Canada
• usa.gov, official web portal of the US government
• ScienceGov, gateway to selected science information provided by US Government agencies
• Catalog of US Government Publications (MOCAT), SuDocs, GPO
• MetaLib, federated search US federal government databases
• ScienceCinema, US Department of Energy multimedia
• Data.gov
• Yahoo! Argentina
• Yahoo! Brasil
• Mexico Web

Asia-Pacific

• Australian Search Engines
• Web Wombat, Australia
• PictureAustralia
• Baidu, China
• China.org.cn
• Government of India Web Directory
• Locate India
• Baidu Japan
• Excite Japan
• Access New Zealand
• Singapore, official gateway, Ministry of Communications and Information

Europe

• Search Europa
• WebWatch, search engine and directory for Belgium
• SwissSearch
• Google UK
• RapidFinder UK
• info.co.uk
• Ask Jeeves UK
• UK government

Middle East and Africa

• Yahoo! Maktoob
• mBendi, information services for Africa
• EgyptSearch
• Ananzi, South Africa

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Subject Specific

• For links to additional subject searchers, Electronic Sources and Resources: By Type / Subject
• Scirus, scientific information, Elsevier
• ScienceGov, gateway to selected science information provided by US Government agencies
• Biznar
• Patent Miner
• Mednar
• MedlinePlus, health information, US government
• MedBot Super Search, Stanford MedWorld
• Faculty of 1000, post-publication peer-review
• FindLaw
• Finance, Yahoo!
• Google Finance
• Voice of the Shuttle, humanities resources
• Latin American Network Information Center, LANIC, University of Texas
• Canadian Consumer Information
• The Reference Desk, Martindale's
• Go.com, everything Disney

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Products and Services

• Google Shopping
• Amazon
• Yahoo! Shopping
• Shopping.com, eBay
• Buyer's Index
• AbeBooks

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Social Networks / Discussion Groups

• Twitter® Search
• LinkedIn
• Wink, people search
• EMail List Directory, Topica
• JISCmail, National Academic Mailing List Service
• Google Groups
• Yahoo! Groups, some public, some requiring registration
• BoardReader
• Repository for Usenet Newsgroup FAQs, MIT

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Telephone, Fax, Email ...

Whois

• Domain Tools
• Whois.net, domain names
• Whois, APNIC
• Whois, ARIN
• Whois, NSI
• Whois, RIPE

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Created: 1996/12/07 Last updated: 2013/10/08
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