Search help: Directories

These sites do not search the entire web. Instead, experts have selected a handful of the best web sites and often review them for you. See also JNet's Librarians Search page

The best:

• Search Engine Power  It calls itself "the World's Largest Search Engine Directory" and with over 16, 465 listings, you are bound to find the special took you are looking for. Need a foreign language search tool? or a search engine that specializes in the US government?  Click on any category and try the various tools and search engines.
• The Scout Report    "Surf Smarter" is the slogan. Capsule reviews of new web sites and a good search engine.  Special categories for  Social sciences, Business  and Science, technology
• Alpha
• The Argus Clearinghouse
• The Big Hub   Try their excellent specialty searches -- everything from news to science to kids' stuff
• Einstein       They call it the smartest search engine on the web. Access to many libraries and encyclopedias
• Open Directory:

  
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  Search Open Directory Arts Business Computers Games Health Home News Recreation Reference Regional Science Shopping Society Sports

   

The rest:

• Infoplease    Everything from sports records to first aid
• Search-Web    A good basic instruction
• Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library
• Athenaeum   Topics organized under Dewey subject system
• HUMBUL Gateway
• Internet Scout Select Bookmarks     Wonderful reviews of top sites
• WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources With over 2000 carefully selected, annotated links in 37 international affairs categories
• Niche Resource Directory
• NISS
• SOSIG - Social Science Information Gateway
• La Bibliotheque nationale - Canada Cherchez par sujet -- un excellent outil
• Healthfinder    US department of health searches the web for you