The Buley Guide to Searching the Web

http://www.google.com The most popular search engine, provides a wealth of other services as well. Topic-specific search engines from Google: Google Book Search Google Code Search Google Scholar Google News archive search	http://www.ask.com One of the top search engines, using natural language querying for searching.
http://www.live.com Microsoft's popular search engine	http://www.yahoo.com In addition to subject-based lists of resources, Yahoo hosts one of the most popular search engines.

2. Specialized Search Engines
Specialized search engines are designed to deal with some of the limitations of the regular search engines. They can often make searching much more efficient.

http://scholar.google.com Searches scholarly publications, provides citations and can be configured to link directly to Buley library journal holdings information.	web http://www.clusty.com Searches several top serach engines and organizes results into clusters based on similarity.
http://www.scitopia.org/scitopia/ Federated search of many scientific databases of published articles and digitized content from scholarly societies and publishers.	http://usasearch.gov/ U.S. Government portal to government information, services, and online transactions.
www.dogpile.com Searches leading search engines and presents results without duplication and with optimal return.	http://thomas.loc.gov Extensive full text government info including legislation, bills, committee information, the Congressional Record, judicial information and substantially more.
http://www.scirus.com Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet, searching over 150 million science-specific Web pages including reports, peer-reviewed articles and journals, and locate university sites and scientists' home pages.	http://memory.loc.gov/ A gateway provided by the Library of Congress to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States, including more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
http://digg.com/ Discovery and sharing of the web, pages listed voted on by users.	http://technorati.com/ A blog search engine and index.

3. Subject Directories

http://www.dmoz.org One of the larger directory databases, sites listed here are reviewed by volunteer editors before inclusion.
Virtual Library http://www.vlib.org/ The VL is the oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the web itself; pages included are reviewed by volunteer editors.