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About.com
Outstanding directory on topics of all subject matter, maintained by the Educational Britannica corp.

Ah-ha!
ah-ha.com searches for clean, relevant, targeted results. They claim to have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to remove bad and offensive sites, and to make Internet searches more relevant and useful.

Access Washington
Access Washington is the virtual business center for interactive government services in Washington (State)

All The Web
Large search engine. Can search for wap, ftp, mp3, video, multimedia file formats as well as text. Ability to limit offensive materials is turned on by default.

Altavista
One of the larger search engines. Searches can be limited to images, mp3, video.

Altavista Image Search
Altavista has a specific page designed for searching images.

Amazon.com

AP Photo Archive (requires a KCLS library card number)
The entire archive can be found at this database site.

Ask George
Search engine for the Washington State government website.

Ask Jeeves
Hits are rated by popularity. You can perform boolean and natural language search.

Ask Jevees for Kids
A smaller, filtered version of the main site.

Auburn (Washington State)

Awesome Clipart for Kids

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Berkley Digital Library Image Finder

Big Search
Based in the UK, this has separate search engine pages for business, discussion groups, electronic text, entertainment, music, news and media, people, product, reference, regional, shopping, software and web searchs (multiple engines per page).

BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Help

Blue Web'n
A directory. The site is specifically designed for schools and can be searched by subject and grade level.

Britannica.com
The Encyclopedia Britannica and many excellent Internet sites arranged by subject are found here. Free.

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Choose the Best Search Engine for your needs.
This site, through questions, helps you determine which search engine best fits your intended purpose.

Consumer Reports (The Magazine)
This is a subscription site which requires a user name and password, but some information is provided free of charge.

Cyberslueth for Kids
an Internet guide for K-12 students.

Clipart

Awesome Clipart for Kids

See also: Clipart on the Mt. Baker site

Consumer Search Engines

Consumer Reports (The Magazine)
This is a subscription site which requires a user name and password, but some information is provided free of charge.

Deja
A consumer education site for comparison shopping on the web.

FinditConsumer
Find it Consumer wa dot gov is a consumer search engine of US government and Washington State consumer information.

Shopping bots

Dealtime

My Simon

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Deep Searching.
Deep Searching is the ability to search deeper into the web, such as databases. More powerful search engines can be found on this page.

Deja
A consumer education site for comparison shopping on the web.

Direct Search (This Link now longer works, and am checking for an updated link - 7/23/2002)
Direct Search is a growing compilation of links to the search interfaces of resources that contain data not easily or entirely searchable/accessible from general search tools like Alta Vista, Google, and HotBot. Although general search tools are essential for the retrieval of Internet based data, often many do not realize that large amounts of information are not easily searchable and accessible via these search tools. This "hidden" from "general search tool" material has become known as the "invisible web".

Ditto.com
This engine is designed specifically for visual searches of the web.

Dogpile
A meta search engine that searches other search engines.

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eBlast.com
The same as Britannica.com

Education Index
A directory of education related websites.

Educational Listserv Archives @ AskERIC

Educational Search Engines

K-12 Search Engines for Students
Sites included on these sites are specifically selected for school age students and their curriculum.

Blue Web'n

Cyberslueth for Kids

Eduhound

Eduhound Espanol

KidsClick

Educational Search Engines

Education Index

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

Lesson Plans

GEM (Gateway to Educational Materials)
The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet!

FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellance)

Lesson Plan Central

MarcoPolo

Scholarships

Fastweb (Scholarship Search Engine)

Eduhound
Designed for K-12 education and contains links to subject related websites in English and Spanish

EduHound Espanol
Spanish version of Eduhound

eLibrary/elementary Database
The entire eLibrary photo collection is included here.

E-Mail Discussion Lists and Electronic Journals

Excite

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Fastweb (Scholarship Search Engine)
Comprehenisve search engine for scholarship information.

Firstgov.gov
FirstGov is the world wide web information portal for the United States Federal Government. FirstGov is intended to be your first resource to find any government information on the Internet, with topics ranging from business and economy to money and benefits to science and technology - and everything in between!

Firstgov for Kids
A search engine for web sites created for kids by federal agencies.

Find-it Washington
Find-It! is a World Wide Web-based one-stop directory for state and local government information. Find-it! indexes files by subject, keyword, title and other data to describe the content of government information resources. http://find-it.wa.gov

Find-it Consumer
This new web site provides resources for K-12 teachers. In addition, consumers can search more than 70 state government consumer-protection sites, which consumer experts have reviewed and recommended.

Free (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence)
As it states, free resources developed by federal agencies.

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Gary Price's List of Lists
University level site, but could be useful when all else fails.

GEM (Gateway to Educational Materials)
Free educational materials developed by federal agencies.

Google
Google Finds sites based on popularity (how many other sites link to the site). Now has a directory as well.

Google Image Finder

Government Search Engines

Federal Government
Search all branches and departments of federal government websites with these search engines.

Firstgov.gov (Adults)
Search all federal agencies and branches of government with this search engine.

Firstgov for Kids

Library of Congress

Thomas
Legislative (federal) information on the Internet.

US Government Educational Resources

GEM (Gateway to Educational Materials)
The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet!

FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence)

Washington (State)

Access Washington
Washington (State) government Internet portal.

Ask George
Search the Washington (State) government website

Find-it Washington

County Government (Washington State)

King County

Cities (Washington State)

Auburn

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Help Choosing the Best Search Engine for Your Need?

Image Searching
This page provides information on searching for images on the Internet, both with subscription databases on the King County Library System web site and with several free Internet search engines

Infomime
INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources like databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.

Interent Public Library
Vast collection of links, arranged by topic, initially developed by students at the University of Michigan, for students of all ages.

Invisible Web (Deep Searching Databases)
Deep Searching is a term that refers to the ability to search Internet databases and directories. Most Internet search engines are not able to search these. This is why it is estimated that traditional search engines can only find less than a quarter of the information on the Internet. It is now estimated that one million pages are added to the Internet daily. Below are Internet search engines that claim to be able to delve deeper into the Internet. More background information can be found searching on the term "invisible web."

Academic Info
Your Gateway to Quality Educational Resources

Beaucoup.com
It addition to being a traditional search engine, it is able to search more than 2500 databases and directories.

BigHub.com
This searches multiple search engines, Web directories, and news databases with one summary of results.

CompletePlanet.com
This has a free Deep Web search site that will search 30,000 of the 100,000 Deep Web database sites. There is also a subscription search engine that is more powerful, called Lexibot.

Direct Search
Links at this site find information not easily found from traditional search engines.

Fossick.com - the WebSearch Alliance Directory
This is a selective collection of more than 3,000 specialist search engines and topical guides. There are thousands of search engines on the Internet. Fossick aims to help users locate the best search tools for their search needs.

Geniusfind
A directory of thousands of search engines, databases, and archives organized into convenient categories and subcategories.

INFOMINE
This has a multiple database search option that allows users to search subject specific databases and full-text journals in academic disciplines, K-12, Internet, and other useful categories.

IncyWincy
The invisable web search engine

InvisibleWeb.com
A comprehensive site that allows users to locate catalogs, achieves, government, business and scholarly databases and much more. This site has access to more than 10,000 databases.

Libraryspot.com
Links to more than 2,500 libraries around the world with additional links.

Invisible Web at Lycos
Comprehensive guide to searchable databases on the web

SearchIQ
A wealth of information with startling search capabilities

Webdata.com
Specializes in the cataloging, s

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Kathy Shrock's Guide for Educators

KidsClick
Web Search for Kids by Librarians. What does their page look like through a librarian's eyes, arranges websites by the Dewey Decimal System.

King County Government Official website
King County (Washington State)

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Lesson Plan Central

Librarians Index to the Internet
Designed and compiled by the California Library System, a searchable directory of sites.

Library of Congress

Libraryspot

Liszt
This is not just for educators. However, their are over 100 discussion lists posted under the Education heading, which are searchable.

Lycos Image Finder
Lycos Multimedia search engine for pictures, videos, audio, and MP3's.

ListServ's
Listserv's (and majordomo's) are mailing lists on specific topics. People subscribe to desired lists, and when someone sends a message to the list, all subcribers receive it and may respond.

Educational Listserv Archives @ AskERIC

E-Mail Discussion Lists and Electronic Journals

Tile Net

Liszt
This is not just for educators. However, their are over 100 discussion lists posted under the Education heading, which are searchable.

Looksmart

Lycos

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Mamma

MarcoPolo
Lesson Plans for teachers in all subject areas

MetaCrawler

Meta Search Engines
Meta search engines search other search engines, and deliver the top hits. They not scour the entire site, however and therefore are not appropriate for in-depth academic research. Many sites that started out as just spiders, directories, or meta-search engines now have incorporated other functions. Google, the current Grand-Daddy of search engines, technically does not fit into any of these catagories.

Dogpile

ixquick

mamma

Metacrawler

One2seek

Profusion

MarcoPolo
The MarcoPolo program provides no-cost, standards-based Internet content for the K-12 teacher and classroom, developed by the nation's content experts. Online resources include panel-reviewed links to top sites in many disciplines, professionally developed lesson plans, classroom activities. Materials to help with daily classroom planning, and powerful search engines.

MetroKC (The Official King County Government website)

Mining Co/About.com

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Northern Light
News and business oriented search engine and directory.

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Olingo
Olingo meaning-based search engine.

Pictures / Images / Audio
These search engines search specifically for pictures and images on the Internet.

Altavista Image Search
Altavista has a specific page designed for searching images.

AP Photo Archive (requires a KCLS library card number)
The entire archive can be found at this database site.

Berkley Digital Library Image Finder

Ditto.com
This engine is designed specifically for visual searches of the web.

eLibrary/elementary Database
The entire eLibrary photo collection is included here.

Google Image Finder

Lycos Image Finder
Lycos Multimedia search engine for pictures, videos, audio, and MP3's.

Reference Online

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Scour
A multimedia search engine

Search Engine Showdown
This site give intricate details on how to use and evaluate each search engine, with up to the minute news on new features that have been added to each of them.

Search Engine Watch
Similiar to the above site.

Search Engine Worldwide

Search the Mt. Baker Website

Spiders

All The Web/FAST

Altavista

Dogpile

Thomas
Find federal legislative information on this site. Maintained by the Library of Congress.

Tile Net
A search engine for listserv's (mailing lists)

Tips

United States. Department of Education. Common Core of Data.
The Common Core of Data (CCD) is the Department of Education's primary database on public elementary and secondary education in the United States. CCD is a comprehensive, annual, national statistical database of all public elementary and secondary schools and school districts. NCES has just made available on the web a new tool now allows you to create your own on-line data tables using several years of data. To start building your own data tables, please visit: http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/bat/

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WebCrawler
One of the first meta-search engines

Xrefer
A reference search engine

Yahoo
Sites linked at Yahoo cover approximately 7% of the information available on the web.

Yahooligans
Yahoo for kids.

Help

Choose the Best Search Engine for your needs.
This site leads you to determine which search engine best fits your intended purpose.

Search Engine Showdown
This site give intricate details on how to use and evaluate each search engine, with up to the minute news on new features that have been added to each of them.

Search Engine Watch
Similiar to the above site.

Tips.

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