Type your query from within any of the following search engines to get a list of Web sites that match your search criteria.

• ALIWEB
• AltaVista
• Ask.com: Improve searching use Ask Search Cheat Sheet
• Excite NetSearch: Concept searching capabilities
• Google: Improve searching use Google Search Sheet
• HotBot
• Internet Detective 
• Lycos  
• WebCrawler
  

Directories contain lists of web sites, organized by topic, usually compiled by humans. Some contain reviews. Many have expanded to include a search engine as well. 

• About.com
• Ask.com : formerly Teoma
• Google Directory
• INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet resource collections
• Internet Public Library
• Librarians' Index to the Internet
• Looksmart
• Open Directory Project
• Starting Point
• USA.gov :  Official website for searching the U.S. Government
• WebCrawler Index : WebCrawler directory of business, entertainment, reference and other internet sites with reviews. Includes a keyword feature.
• WWW Virtual Library
• Yahoo: One of the most comprehensive human-compiled web guides. Improve search results Yahoo Cheat Sheet

Launch queries on several search engines at once or pick and choose from a list of choices.

• Beaucoup Search Engines
• Dogpile: Multi-engine search tool
• Freeality Internet Search Engines
• Ixquick Metasearch
• MetaCrawler
• Proteus Internet Search: Type once, search everywhere with Proteus
• Search Allinone Metasearch: combining the power of all the worlds best search engines into a metasearch
• Search.com: C|net's multiple search forms
  

Improve your search results by learning search techniques using the various search engines.

• Search Engine Showdown: The Users' Guide to Web Searching
• Search Engine Watch: News, tips and more about search engines from Danny Sullivan

Learn how to evaluate sources found on the web using critical thinking skills. How reliable is the information?

• Evaluation of Internet Search Engines & Searching
• Evaluating Quality on the Net / Hope N. Tillman
• Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources
• Internet Detective
• UCLA College Library: Thinking Critically about WWW Resources / Esther Grassian