Specialized Search Engines

• Ancient and Medieval Internet

Search  ancient and medieval history topics on the Internet.
• Ask ERIC

Search the ERIC database
• Argus Music Searcher

Search for recording artists, bands, and lines in lyrics.
• Canada 411 (Sympatico)

Find a Person, Find a Business.
• 411.ca
  Find a person, then find their neighborhood map.
• Find sound.com
  Search the Web for sounds.  Search by file type.
• FlipDog  A search engine for finding jobs.
• MagPortal.com
  MagPortal.com helps you find individual magazine articles on the Web. Use the search engine or click on a category to browse through article listings.
• MRQE
  Movie Review Query Engine
• SearchEdu.com Over 20 million university and education pages indexed and ranked in order of popularity.
• Searchmil.com A Search engine to search over 1 million military pages indexed and ranked in order of popularity.
• Search Adobe PDF Online
  Now there's a way to search through more than a million summaries of Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) files on the Web. Your search results will allow you to see the summaries before deciding to view the original Adobe PDF.
• Total Trivia Search Engine (Search for trivia by various subject categories: statistics, animals, etc.)
• Wayback machine
  Find out what the Web used to be like. Images of Web sites as they were.

Articles about Specialized Search Engines

• Notess, G. (2002). The wayback machine: the Web's archive.
• Find out more about specialty search engines from Search Engine Watch : Specialty Search Engines

Updated May 2002