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Search Engines

There's more to life than Google! Try these alternatives.

Academic

Search sources chosen by teachers, librarians, and researchers.

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A search engine for students, with results selected by search experts. Also features SweetSearch Biographies and SweetSearch Social Studies.

Google Scholar will search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
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_Infotopia is an academic search engine that contains sources preselected by teachers, librarians, and educational consortia. Infotopia also lists quality web portals by subject.
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RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that increases the visibility of academic information in your search results._

Visual

Search smarter by finding related concepts and terms.
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An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145000 words that you explore using an interactive map. It's a tool for people who think visually.
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This interactive, multimedia search engine groups results by difficulty, and categorizes them into various types of media. You can also create research journals and concept maps throughout your research.
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WikiMindMap is a tool for browsing and searching Wikipedia content. Users can enter a search term, and results will be displayed as a mindmap, with information broken down into subtopics.

Meta

Search multiple engines at once!
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Dogpile searches Google, Yahoo!, and Bing all at once, and then compiles the most relevant results - without duplicates.
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Joongel searches and navigates through the most popular sources on the Internet in different categories. Joongel provides direct search results from the ten most viewed websites in a specific subject or subcategory._

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