ABOUT SEARCHING

• Search Engine Showdown - Reviews and more, by Greg Notess.
• RSS and library research - From the Eastern Michigan University Library.
• Podcasts - Search for podcasts.
• Web 2.0 - 15 things to try, from Rice University (Texas). Look for the section on Social bookmarking.
• WCC's How-To page has overviews and tutorials on research including Web Searching

SEARCH ENGINES

• All the Web
• AltaVista
• Ask
• Google
• HotBot
• Bing
• Lycos
• Yahoo
• Yahoo Directory - Searchable directory.

META SEARCH ENGINES

• Clusty - organizes data into folders (clusters) and by sources.
• Dogpile - Searches four search engine databases simultaneously.
• Ixquick - Searches about a dozen search engine / sources.
• Meta Crawler - Searches four search engine databases simultaneously.
• Web Crawler - Searches four search engine databases simultaneously.
• Mamma - Searches several search tools simultaneously.

LIBRARIAN SELECTED / SCHOLARLY FOCUS

• Infomine - Scholarly Internet resource collections.
• Internet Public Library - The first public library of and for the Internet community.
• Intute - Directory of websites, in four main categories.
• Librarians' Internet Index - By librarians, for everyone!
• Open Directory Project - Volunteer-edited directory of the web.

DIGITAL RESOURCES & REPOSITORIES

• The Directory of Open Access Repositories - A directory of repositories.
• Everett Public Library - Northwest History Room's digital collections.
• Northwest Digital Archives - Primary resources, such as diaries, correspondence, and photos.
• NYPL digital collections - New York Public Library's collection of digitized works.
• New York State Digital Collections - Portions of the collections from the state's library, archives, and museum.
• OAIster Open Archives Initiative - Digital Resources.
• Internet Archive - a project of the Open Content Alliance (OCA).
• Open Content Alliance - building a digital archives
• Internet Archive - a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. The Wayback Machine has "snapshots" over time websites.
• Open Courseware - Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT.
• The Digital Universe - Non-profits putting educational, scientific and cultural resources on the web. A portal of portals.
• Digital Collections - Centralia College's list of links.
• WA State Library - Links to some digital collections in WA State.
• WA State Digital Archives

OTHER

• NewsDirectory - Search for magazines and newspapers.
• Documents in the News - from the WA State Library Updated daily - provides access to recently published newspaper articles from around the state, along with supporting reports, legislation, court decisions, statistics, and regulations issued by government and nongovernmental agencies.
• refdesk.com - Best source for facts on the Net.