Tech Center

Search Engines
The links below will take you to some of the most popular search engines on the Web. Click here to search the Library website.

Google
A favorite of many searchers, features a database of over five billion Web pages.

Bing
Microsoft's new search engine.

AlltheWeb
Begins displaying results and related searches while you type your query.

AltaVista
An old favorite of Web searchers that continues to add new features.

Ask.com
Search engine that provides tools for narrowing and expanding your queries.

Internet Public Library
Searchable directory of more than 20,000 Internet resources selected by librarians.

Open Directory Project
Community-maintained directory with more than 4 million sites, 70,000 editors and 590,000 categories

Vivisimo
So-called "metasearch engine" that clusters results from different search engines into separate subject areas.

Yahoo!
The original Web portal, still going strong with Web search, image search, and more.