We're all familiar with Google, Bing, and Yahoo, but did you know that there are lots of other tools you can use to search the internet? On this page, you'll find links to selected search engines that can give you different kinds of search results, help protect your privacy, and even help protect the environment.
If you need assistance with developing effective search statements or evaluating the information you find with these tools, call or visit your Campus Librarians or connect to the Ask-a-Librarian service: Chat | Email | Text
This search engine pledges not to track your searches or save any data about you. You'll see fewer ads, and you can customize the look and feel of the page. Search results come from Bing and a number of other sources.
This search engine donates its profits to tree-planting organizations in countries around the world. Searches are powered by Bing.
Ekoru donates 60% of its revenue to organizations dedicated to cleaning and reforesting our oceans. It doesn't track your searches, and its servers run on eco-friendly hydroelectricity.
Not a search engine, but if you need to print a web page from your search results, this handy tool conserves paper and ink by allowing you to remove images, ads, and other unnecessary information.
You've probably been hearing a lot about Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots such as ChatGPT, and you may be wondering about using them as search engines. This amazing technology has enormous potential for research and is already proving useful in many ways, but at this point in time, the information it generates may not always be reliable. It will be fascinating to see how chatbots develop, but for now they should be used with discretion. To learn more, see the newsfeed articles below.
Advanced researchers might want to try these AI-powered literature review tools. These tools can help you discover and analyze academic papers related to your field of study. As with all AI tools, use with discretion and carefully evaluate results.
This experimental search engine lets you skim the top million (or 100k, 10k, 1k, or 100) hits off of your Google search results to reveal the sites that never make it to the top.
Calling itself a "computational knowledge engine," this site specializes in retrieving quantitative data. (For search tips, see 10 Amazing Uses for Wolfram|Alpha and 23 Cool Non-Math Things You Can Do with Wolfram|Alpha.)
You can also try Goofram to search Google and Wolfram|Alpha simultaneously and get side-by-side results.
With this site, you can perform a Google search and get side-by-side results in two different languages.
This page was created and is maintained by
Jenny Saxton.
Questions and comments are welcome.