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Helpful Strategies

If you're having trouble finding an item: Try searching for the plural form of the word. Try at least two search engines. Try putting phrases in quotes. Try using a hyphen to exclude a term (i.e. fruit baskets-wicker). Try using a + if the word must be included (i.e. +midwest weather). Be aware that not all search engines will make use of the quotes, hyphen, and plus signs.



If you're looking for the right word, One Look scans 743 online dictionaries all at the same time.

Search Internet for a dictionary with the word (Powered by OneLook® Dictionaries)

Enter word:
HINTS: Adding wild cards expands the search. (* = any number of characters and ? = exactly one character). For example, "tomo*ow", "tomo??ow" or "tomor*" will find "tomorrow".

The Free Dictionary is a combination dictionary, search engine, encyclopedia, almanac and more.
 

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Dictionary, Encyclopedia & more
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Computing Dictionary
Medical Dictionary
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Wikipedia Encyclopedia
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SearchEdu has over 15 million university and education pages indexed and ranked in order of popularity. 


 



20,000 links to every reference tool imaginable.


Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts is a collection of digital documents for literature and philosophy. 

1 UP INFO combines a search engine, multiple research tools, and a full encyclopedia.

SCIRUS is a specific search engine for Science.


The Internet Open Directory Project is fairly new and very fast. Limited graphics and "just the facts" make this a new favorite. 

Search Open Directory
Arts
Business
Computers
Games
Health
Home
News
Recreation
Reference
Regional
Science
Shopping
Society
Sports

 


The Columbia Encyclopedia is part of  Bartleby.com, the most comprehensive set of reference tools on the Web.

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Yahoo! is perhaps the best known of the Net's engines.

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All The Web contains over 600 million full-text documents, with a multibillion catalog planned in the near future. 

AlltheWeb :: find it all


Google matches searches by the exact text you enter in the search window. The main site also has a "Feeling Lucky" button that takes you to the site Google thinks is the best one in your category.
Google


Half Google and Half Yahoo side-by-side search.
 


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New search technology -- semantic search. Supposed to "think" just like the human brain.

Semantic Search of the Web from hakia.com

Vivisimo is the best new search engine on the Net. It not only retrieves webites related to your topic, but also categorizes them into more logical categories.


 

HOT BOT brings in results from the four biggest search engines and puts them in one neat package.


MONSTER CRAWLER  zeros in on just the biggest search engines. 
Monster Crawler - The Monstrous Search Tool MonsterCrawler
Search all the major engines with just one click!

IXQUICK claims to be the world's most powerful metasearch engine.

Ixquick Metasearch


 

TEACH-NOLOGY offers a lesson plans search for over 100,000 plans. Awesome teacher tool!


ALTA VISTA has expanded to offer a wide range of search options.

 

 

 

 


ASK lets you expand or narrow results for web pages.

Ask.com

 


InfoPlease is acts like an almanac for finding facts and information.

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Answers.com delivers answers to questions, not just a list of links.

Power Reference

Online dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia and much more...

Who is... What is...

 

Elementary students may want to give these a try. They act just like "adult" search engines, except they're set up for kids (topics, categories, graphics, filters). You might also want to check out Child-Safe Searching on the Web.


 

AskForKids.com


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