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Best Internet Info

On the Best Internet Info Research Guide, you will find numerous web-based resources to assist you with research. Use the tabs at the top of the page to select the type of resource that best suits your information needs.

On this page, you will find a variety of Search Engines organized by categories according to their functionality.

Academic Gateways

SweetSearch
Searches a fully vetted "whitelist" of websites created by 50+ librarians, educators and researchers who collectively invested over 100,000 hours in finding the most reliable, authoritative resources.

Anonymizers

DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo doesn't track you, providing unbiased searches that are never based on your search history.
StartPage
StartPage allows you to search without ads or data mining by third parties.

Cluster Search Engines

Carrot2
Carrot2 organizes search results into topic clusters.

Deep Web Search Tools

Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to search for scholarly literature.
GRAFT
Global Repository Access Full-Text. Search across full-text and records alike in 4,723 repositories.
JSTOR Free
JSTOR provides access to millions of academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Some of it is "open access."
JURN
Search millions of free academic articles, chapters and theses.

Metasearch Engines

Dogpile
Dogpile returns all the best results from leading search engines including Google and Yahoo!, so you find what you’re looking for faster.
Exalead
Exalead.com offers you new tools that allow you to find the information you seek on the Web quicker.
Zapmeta
ZapMeta searches multiple types of information from multiple sources to generate optimal results.

Search Engines

Ask
Ask Media Group's search engine.
Bing
Microsoft's search engine.
Google Advanced Search
Advanced Search interface for the Google search engine.
Yahoo Search - Web Search
Search interface for the Yahoo search engine.

Specialty Search Engines

Trip Medical Database
Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.
WolframAlpha
Wolfram|Alpha retrieves knowledge and answers by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms and methods.