Search Tools

Startpage

The German-language Metasuchmaschine Ixquick based in the Netherlands deletes personal data of its users - in particular the IP address - after 48 hours.

Google

The top choice for searching the Web

Yahoo

Yahoo offers specialized search options

Ask.com

Offers many innovative tools to help you get the information you need quickly and easily.

Kids Click!

Backed by librarians, KidsClick lists about 5,000 web sites in various categories.

Answers.com

Provides access to fast facts and other information from over 100 reference sources. Formerly called GuruNet.

Dogpile

Send search to a customizable list of search engines, directories and specialty search sites, then displays results from each search engine individually.

Clusty

Clusty is a whole new way to search the web. Clusty queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking. This "metasearch" approach helps raise the best results to the top and push search engine spam to the bottom