Questions Answered
allexperts.com
Allexperts is a comprehensive listing of various fields in which one might have a question, and volunteer "experts" in those fields who are willing to provide educated answers to question submitted. This directory is human run and moderated.
factbites.com
Factbites is an interesting take on the crawler-styled algorithm. Rather than simply returning webpages based on your search, factbites returns what it deems to be meaningful phrases and sentences related to your topic, and includes a link to the source of the information.
highbeam.com
Highbeam provides an online magazine and newspaper database for research. Searching is free, but users have to pay a fee to access full results.
infoplease.com
Information Please's online presence provides a searchable database of its own almanacs, encyclopedias, and dictionaries (published by Pearson Education). Information Please is well known as a reputable source of factual information.
retrevo.com
Retrevo uses its own AI to aggregate and analyze information on the purchase, care, and operation of consumer equipment. Through its analysis of product webpages, reviews, and manuals, Retrevo provides the most relevant information available in one place for individual consumer electronic items.
Business Related
business.com
Business.com is a directory of business-oriented websites, primarily of business products and service providers. Entries are editorially compiled into twenty-six major industries, and has an overall list of over 65,000 business categories.
bizseer.ist.psu.edu
Bizseer is a digital library and search engine hosted at Penn State's Smeal College of Business. It focuses on academic business documents.
dailystocks.com
Dailystocks is a website devoted to letting users search for current stock information.
moneywebsearch.com
MoneyWeb is a community managed directory of financial information, directed at users who are interested in both financial and general money matters.
nlresearch.com/pubsearch.php
Northern Lights Business Research Engine allows users to search through over 1,400 business journals unavailable through conventional search engines, the Business Web, immediately updated news from over 70 newswires, 3 years worth of newswire and newspaper archives, and the white pages.
whispernumber.com
WhisperNumber maintains a database of expected earnings of various businesses, compiled through using search algorithms on sites containing reliable investment and financial information. While not necessarily accurate, the predictions posted on WhisperNumber can help with an investment decision.
zapdata.com
Zapdata provides users with free access to D&B Sales and Marketing's up-tp-date information on over 14 million American businesses. The service also allows you to build prospect lists, and to subscribe to the site's premium services for detailed and updated market analyses, list analysis, and other services.
Law Related
lawcrawler.findlaw.com
A law-related search engine that only returns results from sites that have been identified as being law-related, through filtering results obtained from Google and code and case law databases.
quest.law.com
Quest search is an initiative by law.com designed to allow users to search both its own network of sites, and the legal web in an effort to provide relevant information from law firm websites, legal blogs, and other useful pages.
library.lawschool.cornell.edu
Cornell Law Library allows users to search Cornell Law's Legal Research Engine to gain access to educational legal documents for research.
Health & Medical Related
hon.ch/MedHunt/
MedHunt is an index of medical information, compiled both through human editing and the use of of crawler-compiled lists. Searches can be narrowe by region, and the interface is also available in French.
medicinenet.com
MedicineNet is a searchable directory of information submitted and edited by a network of approximately 80 practising medical doctors, surgeons, and physicians.
medline.gov
Medline Plus allows users to search the databases of both the US National Library of Medicine and the US National Institutes of Health.
WebMD.com
WebMD is arguably the most widely recognized searchable portal of reputable health and medical information.
Science Related
scirus.com
Scirus is a scientific-only search engine providing users with links to scientific web pages, journals, articles, and other information. Using its proprietary algorithm, Scirus scours regular websites, preprint servers, digital archives, information repositories, and patent and journal databases in order to bring the most relevant information to the end user. Additionally, Scirus's advanced search filter allows users to narrow their results by category, date, specific resource or author.
chemie.de
Chemie.de is a repository of Chemistry related information aimed primarily at the pharmaceutical, chemical, and biotech industries. The information available is both historical and current news.
icivilengineer.com
iCivilEngineer is a portal and google-driven search engine aimed directly at civil engineers. The site provides current civil engineering and IT news, a career center, useful tools, and a searchable web directory of over 15,000 documents pertaining to civil engineering.
polymer-search.com
Polymer-Search provides a google-powered search engine for all topics directly related to the polymer industries of rubber, plastics, and adhesives.
research.att.com/~njas/sequences/
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences is just that- it provides an online resource for scientists, statisticians, mathematicians, and other people of a technical background to test whether or not a sequence of numbers matches up against any known formula or pattern.
safari.oreilly.com/
O'Reilly Safari allows programmers and IT professionals to search their comprehensive database of technical books, and to view content from specific books for a small monthly fee.
citeseer.ist.psu.edu/
Citeseer is a digital library and search engine focused on academic scientific literature, and is hosted at Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology.
scienceaccelerator.gov
Science Accelerator allows a user to submit a query across several of the US Department of Energy's collections of scientific and technical information, including results of recent research and development projects and/or programs, descriptions of projects currently in progress, and major accomplishments. The search engine allows for full document text searches, and can be customized to minimize results through the advanced search feature.
treasure-troves.com
Eric Weisstein's Treasure Troves of Science, despite their casual name, are a well respected and heavily used searchable resource for information on Astronomy, Scientific Biographies, Mathematic and Scientific books, Chemistry, Life Cellular Automation, Mathematics, Music, and Physics. While very comprehensive, these collections of information are limited by the fact that they are created and maintained by Dr.Weisstein himself, and so won't be 100% current.
iaea.org/inisnkm/nkm/ws/
The International Atomic Energy Agency search engine provides access to both its own information database, and its constantly growing directory of nuclear science and technology related web pages.
Entertainment
bookmach.com
Bookmach indexes over 3,300 blogs, e-zines, magazines, and news sources that it deems high quality. Its index is searchable, and allows users to save their searches in order to remain updated with their favourite sources.
blinkx.com
Blinx touts itself as the remote control for internet TV. Boasting an index of over 18 million hours of searchable streaming video, Blinkx is the largest video search engine in the world. The crawler algorithms used by Blinkx not only recognize text, but are also designed to analyse video and to recognize speech.
wikio.com
Wikio provides a constantly updating source of information from various blogs, news sources, and member publications. Wikio's strength, however, lies in the user's ability to customize their Wikio home and search to only include sources that the user is interested in.
boxxet.com
Boxxet creates packages around individual topics that include news, blogs, videos, products, etc., all centred around the topic in question. The idea behind the concept is that all relevant information about a particular topic should be grouped in a user friendly, immediately understandable manner.
liveplasma.com
Live Plasma is a search engine designed to help users find new music or movies by entering their favorite titles. Upon receiving a title, Live Plasma will output a visual map of titles or artists, arranged on a basis of similarity and other users' preferences.
seeqpod.com
Seeqpod uses sophisticated search and analysis algorithms to search for sometimes obscure audio and video on the internet in an effort to make content that would have otherwise gone unnoticed available to the general public.
swamii.com
After a quick and free registration, Swamii tracks content on the internet and notifies users of new content that they may be interested in, including webpages, p2p networks, TV guides, online rich media, news, and more.
everyzing.com
Everyzing is a search engine designed for audio and video search. By using its unique speech - to - text technology and search optimization, Everyzing makes video and audio content more available to the end user.