Search+Engines

__**Search Engines:**__

__**Yippy:**__ []

What it is good for: Brainstorming topics, Narrowing down your search topics When to use it: When dealing with broad topics. When you need help narrowing down your search terms.

__**Complete Planet:**__ []

What it is good for: Database searches and research.

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What is is: A comprehensive listing of [|dynamic searchable databases].=====

Find databases with highly relevant documents that cannot be crawled or indexed by surface web search engines.
When to use it: To find new pages to access resources. Use education section to find materials.

[|www.ask.com/]
 * __Ask__**

What it is good for: Finding answers to common questions. When to use it: When you want quick answers. "Who is the richest man in the world?"

__**Delicious **__ [] What is is good for: Bookmarking what you find. Finding resources other people bookmarked. When to use it: When you want to see resources others have found useful.

__**Wolframalpha**__

[|http://www.wolframalpha.com]

What it is good for: Data, time-lines, calculations... objective information. When to use it: To find the birth, death and full name of famous people.  For FACTUAL objective information about people, places or things.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__**Carrot:**__ []

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">What is is good for: Narrowing down your search. Giving you subcategories for your search. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">When to use it: When you need help narrowing down your search terms.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__**Wayback Machine**__ []

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">What it is good for: Finding information from old websites. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">When to use it: When you favorite website goes missing. When you reach an internet “dead end” (Links to information that no longer work).

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__**Duck Duck Go**__ []

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">What it is good for: Helping point out alternate meaning for words. Helping you narrow your search. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">When to use it: You are looking for information. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">Uses: Google, yahoo

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__**Findsounds**__ []

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">What it is good for: Finding sounds. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">When to use it: To find sounds effects and musical instrument samples on the internet.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__**Regseek**__ [|http://www.refseek.com] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">What it is good for: Academic research. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">When to use it: When you want to limit your search to .edu and academic sources. When doing research on academic topics.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__**PDF Search**__ [|http://pdf-search-engine.com]

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">What it is good for: Finding PDF, DOC and PPT documents. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">When to use it: When you you want specific documents, worksheets or resources that you can access.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__**Open Library**__ []

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">What it is good for: Finding books and ebooks. Find authors for books. Some online educational resources. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">When to use it: To find sources for books and ebooks online.

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 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Dogpile __**

What it is good for: Searching multiple web search engines at ones. When to use it: When you want to make sure you are getting as many of the websites on a topic.