Are you aware that when you use a regular search engine, you are searching less than 10% of the actual web? The whole web is estimated to be 500 times larger than what the search engines actually search. These links are to some search sites which are attempting to locate those hidden areas that the regular search engines don't find! What's currently being called "The Invisible Web". {Updated 09/15/05}

Academic Info-- "Your Gateway to Quality Educational Resources"

AllSearchEngines.com --a new tool that lists the search engines within subject categories

Alliance for Lifelong Learning --a huge directory compiled through efforts of University of Oxford, Stanford and Yale. "The leading academic websites reviewed and catalogued by university experts."

Beaucoup --another search spot endeavoring to help us search the Invisible Web.

Bubl Link's Main Subject Menus--All links arranged by Dewey number

Digital Librarian--"a librarian's choice of the best of the web" arranged by topic and searchable

Direct Search From Gary Price comes this huge list of sites which are searchable on the Invisible Web

Entrez, The Life Sciences Search Engine --from the National Institute of Health

Finder Seeker ---"The Search Engine for Search Engines!" Here you put in the broad subject area and get a series of links to other subject

Genius Find.--This site "categorizes thousands of subject and topic-specific search engines and databases"

Infomine--Scholarly Internet Resource Collections--this one bills itself as searching over 20,000 "Academically Valuable Resources"

Internet Library for Librarians --profession related portal

The Invisible Web Directory-- created by Gary Price and Chris Sherman, authors of the book THE INVISIBLE WEB.

Internet Public Library

The Internet Search Wizard --a new and evolving search engine worked on by Ken Wiseman for the Illinois Math and Science Academy. This one is actually pulling in Invisible Web sites as well as flat HTML pages!

Kartoo--a unique new search engine for those who prefer to search in a graphic interface. Try it! It also allows the use of the term "database" as does Google and Yahoo.

Librarians Index to the Internet

Library of Congress

Lycos Websites Directory -- Lycos is beginning to help us to search some of the hidden databases where you are required to put in search terms at the site itself--search engines can't do that for us yet! (Read all about it in Ken Wiseman's "The Invisible Web for Educators"

Mednets --"A medical search engine and health portal."

Merlot --Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching for education searches

PINAKES--A Subject Launchpad --links to subject specific search engines

Profusion --here's one that allows you to either drill in by topic or does a search of multiple engines and enables you to delve into the invisible web content in the process.

Search Engines & Specialized Directories --a good breakdown for specialized engine links

Searchability: Guides to Specialized Search Engines --annotated search engines in a wide variety of topic areas.

Searchenginewatch's Guide to Specialty Search Engines

Turbo10 -- an new engine that leads you to the databases

Vivisimo main page is valuable for its clustering effects when one does a search. ..also try Clusty for its clustering results!

WebLens Search Portal--links for search engines, reference, tools and databases among others. This is a useful site for research in a multitude of areas.

WiseNut--gives you links to the databases for your topics and tells you which ones are searchable!

World Wide Web Virtual Library --fully searchable list of virtual libraries and topics all over the world!

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