Specific tools to use when delving into the Hidden Web:

Are you aware that when you use a regular search engine, you are searching less than 10% of the actual web? These links are to some search sites which are attempting to locate those hidden areas that the regular search engines don't find! What's currently being called "The Invisible Web".

Beaucoup - Merci to Beaucoup for providing one of the best directories of search engines and portals.  Beaucoup has links to more than 2,500 search engines and has strict standards for these links.  Beacoup Supersearch is a very speedy meta-search engine that searches 10 of the major general engines. (Blocked by Bess) 

Direct Search - From Gary Price comes this huge list of sites which are searchable on the Invisible Web

IMSA The Internet Search Wizard - 21st Century Information Fluency Portal - A new and evolving search engine worked on by Ken Wiseman for the Illinois Math and Science Academy. This one is actually pulling in Invisible Web sites as well as flat HTML pages!

Infomine--Scholarly Internet Resource Collections - Searches over 20,000 "Academically Valuable Resources"  Has a multiple database search option that allows users to search for subject-specific databases and full-text journals in academic disciplines, k12, Internet, and other useful categories.

The Invisible Web Directory - created by Gary Price and Chris Sherman, authors of the book THE INVISIBLE WEB.

Internet Public Library

Invisible Web - The straightforward, logical interface, huge database, and excellent search options make the Invisible Web one of the top "search for search engines" sites. "Invisible" refers to the fact that links are to "resources whose contents cannot be indexed by traditional search engines.  These include databases, archived material, and interactive tools such as calculators and dictionaries."  Also referred to as the "Deep Web."  (Blocked by Bess) 

Librarians Index to the Internet

Lycos Invisible Web Catalog - Lycos is beginning to help us to search some of the hidden databases where you are required to put in search terms at the site itself--search engines can't do that for us yet! (Read all about it in Ken Wiseman's "The Invisible Web for Educators"

Metor the Gate of Information- Metor is a new search and retrieval system that integrates information from hundreds of databases whose contents can not be reached by traditional search engines. Metor includes specialized databases, archives and catalogs for highly targeted information. 

Sherlock: the Mac Internet Consulting Detective - Can search multiple sites with one interface - get the plug-in at Macinstein's.

And there are many sites to help you with specific subjects: And there will be more and more all of the time...keep checking!  keep hunting!

Ask an Expert - Connecting your students to an expert in the field is an excellent way of expanding their horizons, supplementing the curriculum with current information, and integrating Internet resources within your classroom. The sites on this page are links to experts in K-12 curricular related topics.

Ask the Experts at the Ref Desk - Educational links for professionals

Azoo's.com - . Azoos looks better, searches better, and finds better than any other search engine of its kind! Emphasizing quality over quantity, NO other engine provides the same... Results

Bighub.com - Access 1,500 specialty databases.  Part of the "Deep Web"  power searchers. (Blocked by Bess) 

CompletePlanet.com - Choose Deep Search in the toolbar for a Deep Web search.  (Blocked by Bess) 

Digital Librarian - "A librarian's choice of the best of the Web." 

Search Engine Colossus - International directory of Search Engines 

Search Engine Guide - The guide to search engines, portals and directories.

Speechbot.com - A quick way to find information from audio and video recordings - everything from radio and TV to the internet - and the site is searchable.