A totally free index of Internet resources for the K-12 Community.
We all know about the search engines like Google and Bing. But there are literally thousands of other search engines and services out there. Here’s a sampling of what you can find.
Search sites like Yandex and Baidu can give you insights as to what’s important in other countries. What do the results for the same search topic tell you about the country?
Abbreviations.com is a large and comprehensive directory and search engine for acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms on the Internet. Abbreviations.com holds hundreds of thousands of entries organized by a large variety of categories from computing and the Web to governmental, medicine and business. Type in an acronym or search by category. learn more
Baidu is the Chinese equivalent of Google. While the site is in Chinese, it will accept English language search terms and has both text and image searches. See the world as China sees it. Baidu is a Chinese based company, hosting the most popular search engine in China. While the site does not have an… learn more
When searching, you'll start with the most popular pages pages for your search term. But you won't see relevant or interesting results "way down the list". BananaSlug is all about serendipity: it "adjusts" your search and reveals results you might otherwise never see. Type in your search, then click a category button. A random word… learn more
BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE indexes more than 150 million curated documents from more than 7,000 sources. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library. A research tool… learn more
Carrot2 takes search results and assigns them into thematic folders. Search on a topic like 3D Printing to see it in action. It was created originally as a demo application for the Carrot2 clustering engine, a set of algorithms that organize search results into thematic folders. Click on the About link on the page to… learn more
DeepDyve is designed for scientific and scholarly research, with access to over 18 million articles from nearly 15,000 peer-reviewed journals. Abstracts and many articles can be accessed for free following links in the Details tab. learn more
Freesound is a good place to search for sound files. Its goal is to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, and bleeps, ... all released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse. learn more
Gigablast, created by Matt Wells in 2000, is one of the few search engines that maintains its own index of over a billion pages. Provide an interesting alternative to Google results. Check out the Directory tab, which breaks out resources by categories. learn more
IMDb is an example of a specialized search engine and database dedicated to a single area of expertise. IMDb's searchable database includes millions of movies, TV and entertainment programs, plus an index of cast and crew members. learn more
The idea for this page and many of these links came from Phil Bradley's Internet Search Engine page. While no longer maintained, Phil listed over 180 web search resources. Looking thru the list can give you a better idea of the breadth of resources available on the Internet. learn more
USZip indexes geographic and demographic data by zip code or city name. Information includes population age and race distributions and income, employment and housing data. Sites like these are a great data resource for math and social science classes. Compare nearby zip codes. How do areas of a nearby large city compare to each other. learn more
