Search Toolbox
We found the best search tools of the Internet to help you find anything
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Web
Find out anything using the best tools to search the web : A collection of the best search engines-
Google Web Search

Google's web search engine gives you one of the easiest and most complete ways to find anything on the web
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Bing

Microsoft's web search engine for the Web, images, videos, shopping, news, maps, travel and local
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Blekko

blekko's web search uses slashtags that narrow your search to only the sites or concepts you want
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DuckDuckGo

Nice, clean web search results with more privacy than Google, fewer ads and spam. A little known gem.
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Ask Jeeves

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Google Blog Search

Google's blog search tool organizes the biggest news and the sites that are breaking it. The service is entirely automated, and meant to be a quick way to figure out what's going on outside of mainstream media outlets
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Google Scholar

Search scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources – peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant published research in academia.
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About Topic Guides

Search through the About directory of over 50,000 specialized topics, each one managed by an expert on the subject
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Yahoo Search

Use the Yahoo web directory when you want to find sites specializing in a given topic or you are looking for a specific Web site home page
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Open Directory Project

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MetaCrawler

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Yippy Clustering Search Engine

Yippy queries several top search engines, combines the results, and groups similar results together into groups
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Yahoo Directory

Use the Yahoo web directory when you want to find sites specializing in a given topic or you are looking for a specific Web site home page
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Google Usenet Newsgroups

Search the Usenet discussion forums. Find something written an hour ago or over 20 years ago. Over 700 million newsgroup messages are available
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YouTube Video Search

Huge video library shared by users. Includes millions of user-generated videos: movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos
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Wolfram|Alpha

Enter a question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and data to get the answer. A huge set of information and tons of models, methods, and algorithms that make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything
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FindHow

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Real-Time
Search the communication stream of the Real-Time Web. Dig into up-to-the-minute alerts, blog posts and tweets as well as traditional news. The rise of the Real-Time Web is one of the most important trends changing the way the Internet works.-
Twitter Search

See what's happening - right now. Twitter contains up to the second news from around the world. Search Twitter to scan for happenings before traditional news media writes about it.
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Google News

Google News is an automated news aggregator. Search for news articles appearing within the past 30 days on any of thousands of news websites.
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Encyclopedias
Get facts about anything from these compilations of human knowledge-
Wikipedia

Encyclopedia of human knowledge written collaboratively by contributors around the world
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Encyclopædia Britannica

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About Topic Guides

Search through the About directory of over 50,000 specialized topics, each one managed by an expert on the subject
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Columbia Encyclopedia

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whatis.com IT Encyclopedia

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Wolfram|Alpha

Enter a question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and data to get the answer. A huge set of information and tons of models, methods, and algorithms that make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything
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Images
Use the best tools to search for images and pictures of anything, and photos of anywhere or anyone-
Google Images

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Flickr Photo Search

Huge photo sharing service with tagging and commenting on pictures, maps showing where geotagged photos were taken. Find pictures of anything, including beautiful art images. Many of the free pictures are offered via Creative Commons licenses that let you use it as a stock photo gallery.
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Discussion
Find conversations about any topic-
Google Blog Search

Google's blog search tool organizes the biggest news and the sites that are breaking it. The service is entirely automated, and meant to be a quick way to figure out what's going on outside of mainstream media outlets
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Google Usenet Newsgroups

Search the Usenet discussion forums. Find something written an hour ago or over 20 years ago. Over 700 million newsgroup messages are available
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BoardTracker Discussion Search

BoardTracker searches message boards and forum postings and finds message threads about your topic.
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Twitter Search

See what's happening - right now. Twitter contains up to the second news from around the world. Search Twitter to scan for happenings before traditional news media writes about it.
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People
Use the best people search tools to find someone's contact information. Find a person's street address, phone number or email address.-
Facebook

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LinkedIn

Search the profiles of professionals around the world. People list themselves on LinkedIn and create their own professional profile including their current and past companies and job titles, city, industry, and their education.
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Wink People Search

Free people search - find people on social networks and across the Web. Find people using name search, location, school, work, interests, and more.
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ZabaSearch USA Person Search

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WhitePages Look up person's address and telephone

Look up a person's street address and their telephone number.
Good for people in the United States and Canada.
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Dogpile Person Finder (US)

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WhitePages Telephone Area Code Lookup

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WhitePages ZIP Code / Postal Code Lookup

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WhitePages Reverse Phone Number

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Yahoo People Search (US)

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Canada411 People Search (Canada)

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WhitePages Reverse Area Code Lookup

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WhitePages Reverse ZIP or Postal Code Lookup

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Yahoo Email Search

Give Yahoo's email address search tool someone's name, and get a list of email addresses
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WhitePages Address to Name & Phone

Look up whose name and telephone number is associated with a street address in the United States or Canada, a 'reverse address lookup'
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EmailFinderPro Find by Name

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EmailFinderPro Find by Email

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Free Email Search

MyFreeEmailSearch.com contains the world's largest publicly available directory of email addresses, which can be used to locate old friends and classmates, find current information related to email, address, and phone, and access to profiles from over 20 social networking sites.
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Wolfram|Alpha

Enter a question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and data to get the answer. A huge set of information and tons of models, methods, and algorithms that make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything
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News
Get the latest news on any subject from around the world-
Google News

Google News is an automated news aggregator. Search for news articles appearing within the past 30 days on any of thousands of news websites.
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Twitter Search

See what's happening - right now. Twitter contains up to the second news from around the world. Search Twitter to scan for happenings before traditional news media writes about it.
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Google Blog Search

Google's blog search tool organizes the biggest news and the sites that are breaking it. The service is entirely automated, and meant to be a quick way to figure out what's going on outside of mainstream media outlets
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Biography
Get biographies and bibliographical information on famous people-
Biography.com

Search the Biography.com database for over 25,000 of the greatest lives, past and present
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Wikipedia

Encyclopedia of human knowledge written collaboratively by contributors around the world
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The Biographical Dictionary

The Biographical Dictionary contains information on more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.
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Wolfram|Alpha

Enter a question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and data to get the answer. A huge set of information and tons of models, methods, and algorithms that make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything
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Legal
Get information on the legal system and its laws, including terminology and trademark search-
Law.com Legal Dictionary

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Nolo Law Dictionary

Nolo's Law Dictionary contains plain-English information on many different legal topics
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