Search Engines (Web-Searching sites)
Ask Jeeves - Easy to use, student-safe method of web searching. All directories are conceptual, AJ handles semantics and syntax by accepting queries as complete questions taking conceptual searches to a whole new level; if you are more verbal than logical, AJ may be what you're looking for.
Beaucoup - 2500+ engines and directories in categories. Lists available search engines by categories - very helpful if you're looking for something new and different aside from the mainstream searches.
Dogpile - The meta-search engine with the offbeat image, Dogpile takes your query and processes it through Yahoo!, Thunderstone, Lycos' A2Z, GoTo.com, Mining Co., Excite Guide, PlanetSearch, What U Seek, Magellan, Lycos, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, Excite and AltaVista all at once, adjusting to the peculiarities of each for you - you can also look for newsgroups, stock quotes, yellow pages, FTP sites, weather and maps.
ENC Searching the Web - The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse's list of Web Links for Educators
Finding Information on the Net - A tutorial from UC Berkeley which provides strategies and information to help you find and evaluate information and also focus your searches on the WWW, in newsgroups and listservers.
Google - A new contender in the search engine sweepstakes claiming to use a sophisticated mathematical formula to help you find the highest quality, most accurate searches possible from "more than a billion hyperlinks"; also allows you to view cached versions of web pages so you're not out of luck if the actual site is down when you need it.
Kids Click! - If you are comfortable with the thought of a librarian directing you towards the best resources (and who isn't?), this is a great site for locating kid's resources; this directory is built by librarians and narrows down the content to that which is truly kid-appropriate - created and maintained by the Ramapo Catskill Library System.
Niles Online - "Robert Niles' site offering ideas on how to successfully find what you're looking for on the largest single information source known to mankind - the Web." Site for finding data on the Internet - sources of reputable data.
Open Directory - Formerly "New Hoo", this 'self-regulating republic' asks netizens to volunteer as editors to recommend the corners of the Web they know best, making for a non-commercial, populist directory where democracy runs amuck! If you want to see the input of the common man rather than polished experts, this site will definitely give you a new perspective.
ProFusion - Beta Version of a very large collection of searchable invisible web sources.
Search Engine Watch - Search engine guides, status reports, facts, resources and a mailing list to keep you up to date on what's new, what works and why.
Where to Find Things - Find out how to search the internet.
WWW 4 Teachers - A carefully indexed collection of online resources made by teachers for teachers!