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Legal Search Tools

• Findlaw (directory organized for legal research, good for finding primary legal material, like codes, court decisions quickly)
• Catalaw (searchable index of about law-related indexes)
• ALSO (use to locate state and territorial legal information)
• Hieros Gamos (directory of legal and governmental sites)
• All Law (index of legal tools, organized by subject)
• Public Legal (index of over 4000 law-related web sites)

Popular Search Tools

• Altavista (performs full-text indexing, and has Boolean capabilities in the power search window)
• Ask (divides results by type, provides options for narrowing searches)
• Clusty (clusters the results by type)
• Google (simple, fast, don't forget the Advanced Search features)
• Librarians' Internet Index (directory of Internet sources that are arranged by subject and evaluated by librarians)
• Yahoo (simple, fast, lots of pop culture information)

Meta Search Engines (search several search engines at one time)

• Dogpile (searches several medium and large Web search and index guides with a single search)
• Ixquick (searches several popular search engines at one time; it removes duplicates from the results list)
• Metacrawler (searches about twelve different search engines with each search, removes duplicates)
• My Way (searches only Ask, Google and Yahoo, no advertisements)
• Surf Wax (simple, clean display for search results, includes blog and Wikipedia searching)

About Search Tools

• Choose the Best (hints on which is the best search engine for the job)
• Search Engine Guide (list of search engines, also has news and other information about search engines)
• Search Engine Watch (list of major search engines, ratings and statistics)
• Search Engine Showdown (list of advanced search features, news and reviews)