All the Web When performing searched from this site you can search for web pages, pictures, videos, mp3 files or FTP files. You can also limit your searches by language. There are also helpful searching tips that pop up and lists of results in other categories.
Encyclopedia Brittanica Provides the complete encyclopedia plus links to magazines, the best web sites on a subject and related books.
Fact Monster This site provides easy access to information on many subjects, including world news, the U.S., people, math and science. Good for searching for facts.
Funk and Wagnalls A free, online encyclopedia where you can search for text articles, sounds, images, movie files.
KidsConnect This site allows kids to ask a volunteer librarian a question and get back a response within 2 school days.
Refdesk A great site to find links to sites that will answer your questions about anything.
Seven Steps Toward Better Searching A great article with hints to get you searching without wasting time.
Specialized Search Engines A chart gives you search engines and directories to limit your searches based on what you are looking for. For example, radio stations, magazine articles, images, primary source documents etc.
University of Albany Libraries This site provides search engines in categories so that you know what search engine works best for what types of searches. Great index.
Yahooligans The Yahoo version for kids.
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