Search Engines

Accumo - Group your search results into conceptual clusters and find your information quickly

Altavista - the oldest crawler-based search engine on the web (1995)

Ask.com - a natural language search engine merged with Teoma

First Gov - Your first click to the U.S. Government

Google - the most popular crawler-based search engine today. Also offers the most comprehensive searchable Usenet archive.

HON Health On the Net Foundation A respected source of authoritative web-based medical information.

Infomine - a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level created by Librarians

Lycos - one of the earliest search engines that now uses results provided by the Norwegian company FAST. FAST has played a large role in search engine technology for many years.

Scirus - Searches over 250 million science - specific Web pages, enabling you to quickly pinpoint scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web.

Yahoo - the web's oldest directory(1994). Web sites have long been organized into categories until they recently began using Google's search engine data.

Information Portals

Gutenberg.org - sources of quotes, full texts for over 25,000 books.

How stuff works - "How does that work?"

Librarian's Index to the Internet - a directory of web resources.

Ref Desk - ready reference resources and facts.

Disclaimer: The library provides public access to a wide range of health and medical information and is not a substitute for medical advice. You are advised to consult with your physician or other health care professional concerning specific questions or to obtain medical advice.