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Academic Search Engines
Earth's biggest environment search engine!

This search engine allows phonetic and approximate spelling searching which is useful if you are unsure of the spelling of your search terms. It also shows thumbnail images of web pages in the results.

Factbites offers different presentation of results - 3 relevant sentences are shown from each site in your search results list.

Online guides and suggested Web resources researched and written by real people.

Gigablast offers options to narrow your search.

Search previews of books and some full text of out-of-copyright titles. Search terms are highlighted in results

Google Scholar has become a prominent leader on the relatively new academic search engine front. Google Scholar specializes in access to academic information by indexing scholarly material from several different source types. Google Scholar not only indexGoogle Scholar has become a prominent leader on the relatively new academic search engine front. Google Scholar specializes in access to academic information by indexing scholarly material from several different source types. Google Scholar not only indexes Web based academic material, it also indexes institutional digital repositories, such as KU ScholarWorks.

Info.com returns results from everyone's favorite search engines, including Google, Yahoo!, Bing and About. The site also offers filtering for subjects like flights, jobs, multimedia, shopping and more.

Over 35,000 Internet resources suitable for scholarly research, compiled by librarians.

Infotopia is a search engine that accessing trusted websites that were individual chosen by librarians, educators, and scholars. Search for information through specialized portals such as Arts and Leisure, Biography, Health, Literature, History, News and Opinion, etc., or through a generalized search that encompasses all the portals.

The best web resources for education and research!

Designed for teachers, students, and scholars this search engine only returns relevant and reliable results.

Ixquick returns the top 10 results from each of the major search engines.

Kartoo displays search results as a visual map connecting related keywords.

Lexis Web - Search legal-oriented web sites that are determined by LexisNexis to be trustworthy and authoritative.
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Known as the 'mother of all search engines,' Mamma allows you to perform a general Web meta search like the above engines, or focus your results on Twitter, news feeds, images and video, local results and job opportunities.

This search engine displays the search results in a split screen providing a visual preview of the results.

There are tons of different ways to use MsFreckles. You can search the entire web, search Google blogs, search UK sites only, search specific domains, search for multiple websites, search definitions, search scholarly papers - the list goes on and on.

Noodle Tools is a service that helps students find references for papers or projects. Users can choose the best search for your information need based on an analysis of your topic or sift through the database of how-to articles. This site is widely used among college institutions, as it provides not only an all-inclusive search functionality, but also a citation generator for bibliographies in MLA, APA, or Chicago style.

Built to return accurate, unbiased search results, clearly focusses on the search strings in the URLs.