Research Guides: Google Like a Librarian: Other Search Engines

Specialized Search Engines

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.

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.
Startpage
Startpage also does not collect or share any information about you or your searches.
Qwant
"The search engine that respects your privacy."
SwissCows
"We do not create personal profiles, but anonymize all search queries after 7 days."

Visual search engines display search results in new and interesting ways, rather than just in list format. Take a look!

PUBLC
"PUBLC adds a new layer to search engines, enabling the users to categorize and rank its content. Users are able to label what the content is about, to what subjects it’s connected to, and what search queries it should be found under."
Carrot2
Take a look at the "treemap" and "pie chart" results displays!

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.