Search Engines

There are many search engines that you can use to locate information on the internet. Each one searches in a slightly different way and produces different results. So it is a good idea to try several different engines if you don’t find what you’re looking for with the first one you try.

Google is the most popular search engine at the present time. Most people like its ease of use and fast results. Many new capabilities have been added to make it a very sophisticated engine.


If you would like to try some of these advanced features without knowing advanced commands, you can use Soople.

If you would like to try some of these advanced features without knowing advanced commands, you can use Soople.

Ask.com is a popular search engine with K-12 students who like to be able enter a question to search. Be sure to click on the “remove frame” button to see the actual URL of the website(s) to which you have linked.


WolframAlpha is a computational search engine launched May 2009.

Yahoo is good for searching broad topics and seeing where they lead.

Dotdash (formerly About.com) is an American digital media company that publishes articles and videos about various subjects across categories including health, home, food, finance, tech, beauty, lifestyle, travel and education.

IncyWincy searches the Invisible Web (not covered by most search engines)

Clusters results by topic and lets you preview the web page without leaving ZapMeta.