Specialized Search Engines

                                   Directories                    Full-text Search Engines                      Meta Search Engines

                                                        Search Tips                                          Evaluating Web sites

These search engines specialize in particular subjects or media.

• Business:   Search for business, online stores, manufacturers, consumer guides and business directories.     BigBook   InfoSpace    Yellow Book

• Children: Search for resources and materials appropriate to children and teens.       Ask Jeeves for Kids      KidsClick!    Lycos      Yahoo! Kids

• Databases: Search and identify other specialized databases and search engines.  There are thousands.     Beaucoup!   Librarians' Internet Index     SEARCH.com

• Education:  Search for lesson plans, articles on education and the education research literature.      the Educator's Reference Desk

• Health:  Search for resources in health and medicine.       HealthAtoZ            Medscape           MedExplorer

• InvisibleWeb: Direct Search

• Law: Search for Supreme Court cases.  FindLaw   LawCrawler

• Media:  Search for music, MP3 audiofiles, graphics and video.  AltaVista Image Search        Lycos Images & Video

• News: Search for local, national and international news, news in technology and other areas, and newspapers.  NewsIndex  Newspapers.com     TotalNews

• People:  Search for the phone numbers and addresses of people and their e-mail addresses.  Lycos PeopleSearch     Yahoo! People Search       Switchboard

• Travel: MapQuest