How to Choose the Search Tools or Databases You Need for Web Searching. Recommended search engines. This is a portion of a Library Internet Workshop at the University of California-Berkeley, it will aid you in choosing the correct tools to use for different types of searches.
Sometimes it is easy to get lost in the plethora of information available on the web, and it is also important to discriminate between inferior and superior quality information. While certainly not all inclusive, the links below generally provide good quality search capabilities.
Librarians' Index to the Internet
This is a high quality searchable directory.
Welcome to INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections Superior quality sites.
Meta search engines:
Other recommended sites: