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Web Search Engines
General Search Engines
Each of these tools can be used to find web pages containing words matching your search query.
Meta-Search Engines
Use these to simultaneously search several Web search engines
for web pages that contain words matching your search query.
Audio Search Engines
Each of these can be used to find audio.
Blog/Feed Search Engines
The following tools specifically search the content of blogs:
Image Search Engines
Each of these can be used to find photos and other types of graphics.
Invisible Web Search Engines
Tools for searching the vast portion of the Web that is inaccessible to traditional search engines. The Invisible Web refers to dynamically generated web pages that are only accessible by querying a search interface located in a specific web site.
News Search Engines
The following tools search across several news sites:
Podcast Search Engines
Use these search engines to find podcasts.
Reference Search Engines
These search engines are designed to return information about a topic rather than a list of links.
Speciality Search Engines
Use these engines to search pages from topical subsets of the World Wide Web.
Video Search Engines
Use these engines to search for video clips.
