Search Tools
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• Dogpile
  Metasearch tool.
• DuckDuckGo
  A search engine that protects privacy and attempts to reduce spam and clutter.
• ixquick
  A meta-search engine which does not record users' IP addresses. It provides a range of advanced search options, and ranks results according to how other search engines aggregately rank a page.
• Neeva
  Search engine offering ad-free private search.
• Sources Search
  
• Startpage
  Web search engine affiliated with ixquick offers Web search results from Google while protecting users' privacy. When you search with Startpage, all identifying information is removed from your query.

Related Links

• AOL Netfind
  Search engine.
• Bing
  Microsoft's search engine.
• Connexions Search
  Search the Connexions website, including the Connexions Library, the Connexions Directory, Connexipedia, and the comprehensive topic index.
• Excite
  Search engine.
• Google
  Leading search engine. Indexes huge number of websites, but paid ads lead the results and results are skewed by commercial and political considerations. Google's algorithms penalize left-wing and other sites to reduce their visibility. Privacy protection takes second place to the overriding imperative to target ads. Actively collaborates with the American National Security Agency in spying on its users.
• Google Scholar
  Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
  Features of Google Scholar
  * Search diverse sources from one convenient place
  * Find papers, abstracts and citations
  * Locate the complete paper through your library or on the web
  * Learn about key papers in any area of research
  
• IceRocket
  Blog search tool.
• Kartoo
  Metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. KartOO launches your query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps.
  
• NameBase Book Index
  A cumulative index of books and clippings. With name, proximity, country and document search features.
  Don't bother with NameBase unless you can answer "yes" to these four questions:
  * Does your research project involve names of individuals, institutions, groups, or corporations?
  * Did these names exist within the last 80 years?
  * Are these names likely to have been mentioned in books, magazines, or newspapers?
  * Are these names associated with the worlds of government, institutions, finance or organized crime by virtue of power, position, wealth, or notoriety -- rather than being the names of celebrities from sports or entertainment, or notables from science, literature, or the arts?
• Open Site Explorer
  Search engine for links.
• Search Thingy
  Features a form allowing you to search ten major search engines in sequence without having to re-enter your search string. Provides brief ratings of the search engines. Hasn't been updated in a while.
• WebCrawler
  World Wide Web search utility.
• Yahoo
  Wesite and search utility with news, games, entertainment.
• Yahoo Canada
  Yahoo's Canadian World Wide Web subject tree and search utility.
• Yippy
  A metasearch engine which submits queries to a number of sources and clusters the results by topic, source, or other criteria.