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Search engines

• AltaVista
• AltaVista Australia
• Google
• Google image search - search the web for images
• Anzwers - Australia and NZ
• Web Wombat - Australian
• Sensis - Australian

Meta search engines

• Dogpile - metasearch
• HotBot
• Metacrawler
• Meta Eureka
• Search.com
• Webcrawler
• Yahoo

Subject directories

The following search engines specialise in searching online content from web sites with databases, an often 'invisible' part of the web:

• Beyond the Black Stump - Australian directory with some international content
• Arts & Humanities Data Service - UK service
• Virtual Learning Resources Center - searches 'quality' internet reference and information sources

Web search tutorials

• Internet detective
• Becoming Webwise
• Finding Information on the Internet - Berkeley tutorial
• Learn the Internet
• Recommended Search Engines - Berkeley
• Search Engine Watch
• Searchtools.com
• Toolkit for the expert web searcher
• Search Engines on the Internet - Australian National University
• Search the internet: a graduated approach in three steps - from UC Berkeley

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