Local Yahoo for New Orleans

"Preset" for connections to local sources

Search Engine Showdown: The Users' Guide to Web Searching

Pretty much everything you would want to know about search engines, including a link to a Search Engine Chart which "compares power search features and capabilities with links to detailed reviews."

Recommended Search Engines

• About.com
• Alltheweb
• Altavista
• Amnesi.com
• Ask.Com (formerly Ask Jeeves)
• Dogpile
• Euroseek
• Excite
• Go.com
• Google
• High School Ace
• Hotbot
• hotsheet
• LookSmart
• LSU Libraries' Subject Guides
• Lycos
• NBC Internet
• Search Engine Colossus
• SearchTurtle.com
• Vivisimo
• Webcrawler
• WiseNut
• With1click
• Yahoo!

Find Pictures and Photographs

• Altavista's AV Photo & Media Finder

  Click on the appropriate tabs in the Altavista munu bar.

• Google Image Search

  Click on the "Images" tab in the Google menu bar.

• Lycos Image Gallery
• Nature Picture Library

  The commercial arm of the Bristol UK based BBC Natural History Unit allows you to search for images of animals, plants, or places in the wild.

• Yahoo Images Search

  (When you reach Yahoo, choose the "Images" search option at the top of the page)

Updated 8/13/2006