Searching the Internet
Library Databases to search for journal articles
Hidden Web - the hidden web is a great place to search to for scholarly information.
Wolfram|Alpha - Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. They aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything.
Multimedia Search Engines: Image, Audio & Video
Google Images (images only) - Find images from across the web.
Search for Government Information
FirstGov Search - FirstGov.gov, the official U.S. gateway to all government information, is the catalyst for a growing electronic government. GovTrack.us - follow the status of federal legislation and the activities of your senators and representatives.
Search email groups, RSS feeds, BLOGS and PODcasts
CataList, the official catalog of LISTSERV® lists - From this page, you can browse any of the 38,597 public LISTSERV lists on the Internet, search for mailing lists of interest, and get information about LISTSERV host sites. Search for a mailing list of interest.
Google, add filetype:rss (or rdf or rss.xml) to search term
BlogPlus - a blog search engine that also analyzes and reports on daily activity in the blogosphere.
Some guides and help on searching the internet.
Evaluating Web Sites - A guide prepared by the Canisius Librarians.
Searching the Internet About Searching, Evaluation of Materials, Image Searching, Metadata, Periodicals, Surfing the Internet, Web Portals, Web Search Engines
Search Engine Showdown: The Users' Guide to Web Searching - reviews of the major commercial search engines and subject directories, ranging from organized comparison charts, reviews, strategies for searching, statistical analyses, and much more.
IPL Web Searching - Some of the Internet Public Library's favorite general Internet search engines and catalogs.
Search Engine Watch Blog - Tips, reviews and comparisons.