LibGuides: Digital Resources: Beyond Google: Search Engines

Search Engines and Their Purpose

Google Image Search
Quickly find images.
Google Scholar
An index of published research, including court opinions and patent records
IMDb
Search film titles, actors, directors, genres etc.
instaGrok
creates an interactive concept map that helps in selecting research topics, identifying keywords, and exploring connections to related ideas. The results page lists key facts, videos, images, and related websites.
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
Internet Scout
Access to highly educated content specialists and a world-class array of computer science and library resources.
Mendeley
University academics share their work here. Find their scholarly research to support your own.
Project Gutenberg
The first provider of free electronic books
Ref Seek
"Aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone" - tip: search beyond the first page of results
Sweet Search
SweetSearch is a custom search engine that searches just 35,000 expert-selected Web sites.
Twiplomacy
World Leaders are tweeting. See what they tweet and who they follow.
Wolphram Alpha
A "computational knowledge engine"