Search Engines

1. Search Directories (category search)

Yahoo!
About.com
goo

2. Robot Search Engines (spider search)

AltaVista
Google
Go.com
Goto.com
HotBot
Excite

3. Comprehensive Search Engines

Dogpile
AskJeeves (ask.com)
Spinfinder.com
iTools

4. Meta Search Engines

AllSearchEngines.com
SearchEngineWatch.com
Refdesk.com

Advanced Search Techniques

Using Boolean logic

AND (+), AND NOT (-), AS A PHRASE (" ")

Ways to narrow down or broaden your search

Narrow down on dates, regions, domains (host:), languages, page titles (title:), and so on.
Broaden by wildcard symbol ( * )

Using Specialty Search Engines

e.g. Linguistics SE

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