Research Guides: Google Like a Librarian: Other Search Engines

Meta Search Engines

Meta search engines search multiple search engines for you and combine all results into a single list.

Dogpile
Searches Google, Yahoo, and Bing for you in a single search.
Yippy
Formerly, "Clusty," Yippy queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking. This "metasearch" approach helps raise the best results to the top and push search engine spam to the bottom.

How do these search engines differ from Google? Check out DuckDuckGo's explanation at http://donttrack.us/

DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo protects your privacy by not tracking you or your searches.
ixquick
Ixquick also does not collect or share any information about you or your searches.

Internet Public Library
Searchable database of credible websites, compiled by Library and Information Science professionals and students.
Infomine
Academic web sites organized by discipline. Created and maintained by University of California librarians and subject specialists.
Virtual Library
Web resources compiled by a "loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert."

Wayback Machine
Search over 150 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. See OC's 2005 website at http://web.archive.org/web/20041216104212/http://www.olympic.edu/
CyberCemetery
The CyberCemetery is an archive of government websites that have ceased operation (usually websites of defunct government agencies and commissions that have issued a final report).
Millionshort
Million Short is an experimental web search engine that allows you to REMOVE the top million (or top 100k, 10k, 1k, 100) sites from the results set. We thought might be somewhat interesting to see what we'd find if we just removed an entire slice of the web.
Google Custom Search
Create a custom Google search widget that only searches the websites you allow.
Encrypted Google
This secured channel helps protect your search terms and your search results pages from being intercepted by a third party on your network. Look for the "lock" icon on your browser window and for the url to start with "https" instead of "http". This does not work for Google Images or Google Maps. This does not hide your search data from Google.
Izik
This is a search engine that is optimized for tablets. Scroll up and down for categories, left to right for results within those categories. Use via the website, or download the app.