This is a great article about the state of search engines. It also lists the following search sites:
COMPARISON SHOPPING:
ï www.mysimon.com
Searches for information and compares prices at more than 2,000 online shops.
NEWS STORIES:
ï www.moreover.com
Finds headlines from more than 1,800 news sites.
LEGAL DOCUMENTS:
Combs through a legal dictionary, legal news and the text of the United States Constitution. A search engine powered by Alta Vista enables users to search for documents on federal and state Web sites.
FINANCIAL INFORMATION:
www.finiancialfind.com
Plumbs sites about financial planning and investing, including those that offer tax information.
SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION:
ï www.biolinks.com
Hunts for information from the Web pages of scientific journals, associations and databases.
ACADEMIC MATERIALS:
ï www.academicinfo.net
Finds Web- based material suitable for a professor’s lesson plans or a student’s research paper. Geared to college students and academic researchers, although many materials may be helpful to high school students.
LOCAL BUSINESSES:
ï www.northernlight.com/geosearch.html
Finds Web pages for businesses based near your home or up to 100 miles away.
GOVERNMENTAL INFORMATION:
ï www.google.com/unclesam
Searches for government documents from federal and state Web sites.
ADOBE PDF FILES:
ï searchpdf.adobe.com
Searches for documents that are published in Adobe’s portable document format.
ONLINE IMAGES:
ï www.ditto.com
Searches for photographs and other images that have been posted online.
FUNNY STUFF: ï www.humorsearch.com
Finds Web pages with jokes, humor columns and parodies of famous sites.