Comparison Sites
http://ranking.thumbshots.com/
http://jux2.com/
Draze.com

Google –
Automatic “and” query
Add + if word must appear
Add – if word should not appear (bass –music) would find bass fishing  or vikings -football
Calculator – type equation in box   -----    47*6-3+7
Definitions – define dinosaur
Filetype – “interlibrary loan” filetype:xls
Local search
News
Phone numbers & addresses
Package tracking
Site search – example is admissions site:www.stolaf.edu
Stock quotes
Who links to – example is link:www.Owatonna.lib.mn.us
Quotation marks - “comes a pause in the day’s occupations”

Ask
Uses Teoma indexes
Site Preview
AskCity is local search
Ask Conversion Tool
Ask IQ.
Ask's Smart
Zoom Related Search
· Narrow or broaden your search with possible alternative search terms which appear on the right hand side of the Ask results page.
· Narrow Your Search: helps you to drill down into topics that are specifically related to your search
· Expand Your Search: allows you to explore topics that are conceptually related to your search
· Related Names: presents a list of names that are conceptually tied to topic options within the "Narrow Your Search" and "Expand Your Search" lists

Other Search Options
ChaCha.com
     Free service that lets you talk to a live professional
Clusty.com
     aggregates from several search enginesand clusters those results
StumbleUpon.com 
      A social-networking search engine
exalead 
      Results are returned in categories and itallows truncation, a proximity operator, and limiting by domain or date.
www.snap.com
       Main feature is the ability to preview. Ask may have eliminated some of the market from this search.

Specialized Searches
http://www.fboweb.com/fb40/default.aspx
         track flights
Tubesurf.com
        Video Search
 Superpages.com
         Business search, with the disadvantage of needing to scroll through advertising
Whitepages.com
        People search
Kosmix
         Concentrates on a few high-demand Web search topics: health, video games, finance, travel, U.S. politics, and autos which are then categories.
Topix.net
          News Search
Reddit.com
          News source
www.bugmenot.com
          Allows you to opt out of various services

Search engines for children:
The kid-safe directories below use human beings to filter out sites that might be considered objectionable for viewing by children.

 http://www.askforkids.com/
        Still natural language
http://www.kidsclick.org/
         Kids Click – recommended by librarians.
        Note reading levels
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/
        Yahoo for kids, designed for ages 7 to 12. Sites are hand-picked to be appropriate for children.

Indexes:
*  Librarian's Index to the Internet   http://lii.org/   California State Library +++
    * American Memory Collection  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
*Mayo Clinic Health and Internet Resources 
http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthinfo/resources.html
    * FirstGov   http://www.firstgov.gov/   U.S. Government Web portal
    * Minnesota North Star   http://www.state.mn.us/   Official state Web portal
    * Biographies  http://www.biography.com/
    * Legal Research  http://www.lawmoose.com/

WebJunction
    * http://www.webjunction.org/do/Home