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Search Engines  [|TheSearchEngineList] (comprehensive list of engines by subject or medium)

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 *  [|Google]
 *  [|Google (Advanced)]
 *  [|Google Books]
 *  [|Google Scholar]
 *  [|AllPlus] (metasearch, cluster)
 *  [|DuckDuckGo] (anonymous)
 *  [|Mashpedia] (real-time encyclopedia)
 *  [|Blekko] (search with //slashtags//)
 *  [|DeweyDigger] (a DDC browse)
 *  [|DocJax] (search for documents)
 *  [|Kngine] (semantic search for web and images)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Secret Search Engine Labs] (alternative search results and open algorithm)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Bing]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Bing Visual Search] refine queries through selecting images
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Deeper Web]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Wolfram|Alpha] (computational knowledge engine)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Surchur] (for searching social networks & more)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Goofram] (search Google & Wolfram|Alpha together)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Browsys] (search across the search tools)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Search Cube] (visual page search)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Yebol] (semantic search)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Yahoo!]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Wiki.com] (for searching wikispace)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Twoogle] (searches Google and Twitter simultaneously)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Findhow] (How-Tos from Names You Trust)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Yuil] (Cuil with Yahoo-power)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Buttonall] (the Internet's universal remote meta-search)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Ask.com]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Clusty] (clustered search)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Duck Duck Go]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Leapfish] (combines Google, Yahoo!, MSN results)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|AllMyFaves] (choose you search tools among a bunch of categorized icons)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Rollyo]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Kartoo] (visual search)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Twurdy] (results ranked by reading level)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Quintura] (Search through tag clouds)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Kosmix] (Results organized by types of Web results--reference, media, conversations, news & blogs)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Soople] (busts out Google's features)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|AltaVista] (Advanced),
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Exalead Advanced,]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|HotBot] ,
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Wayback Machine] (archived web pages)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Thumbshot]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Jux2] (compare Google, Yahoo, and MSN with One Search)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Whonu] (contextualizes your search)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Ms Dewey] (a //librarian// guides your search)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Boolify Project] (an educational boolean search tool, currently in beta)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|SweetSearch] (selective searching)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Pipl] (for searching people)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|SocialWhoIs]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Surchur] (what's hot on the social web--blogs, twitter, images, video, more)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Semantic search tools (structured, intelligent results)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Twine]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Hakia]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|TrueKnowledge]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|SemantiFind]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Directories** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Search Tool Ideas**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|OpenDirectory]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Google Directory]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Yahoo! Directory]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Best of The Web (BOTW)]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> TrainableSearchTools

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">** EBSCO Research Databases ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Select from several reference, education, news and business databases.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">MLA Style <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">** Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">** Purdue OWL MLA Style Guide ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">** General MLA Format ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">** [|How to Cite a Tweet] **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> **Works Cited Page** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">** In-Text Citations: the Basics ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">** Additional Resources for using MLA Style Citations ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">** Abbreviations used in MLA Style Format ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">** Example of a completed MLA Style Works Cited Page ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">// <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From The OWL at Purdue, an Online Writing Lab created and maintained by the English department at Purdue University //
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Works Cited: Books
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Works Cited: Periodicals
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Works Cited: Electronic Sources
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Works Cited: Other Common Sources
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Formatting Quotations
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [|Footnotes and Endnotes]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">** From the MLA: Modern Language Association **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> What is MLA Style?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Frequently Asked Questions
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Order the MLA Handbook for Writers
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Note about online access to MLA Handbook