The following search engines are recommended by the Library to facilitate searching on the Internet. The selections are based on the major search engines and directories listed in Search Engine Watch.com

Search engines

• Google
• Yahoo
• Ask Jeeves

Local search engines

• Google Singapore
• Yahoo! Singapore
• Ask Jeeves

Tips on searching Google

• Google Blog Search . To search a variety of blogs on the Internet
• Google Books .To search electronic books on the Internet
• Google Calendar. A free online calendar to organise schedules
• Google Calculator . To use Google to add, substract, divide and multiply.
• Google file type search . To search various documents on the Internet such as pdf, ppt, doc, xls etc.
• Google Finance . Provides information on market, news, portfolios and stock screeners
• Google Groups . To search all the usenet postings on the Web
• Google Guide . An online interactive tutorial for novice and expert users.
• Google Images . To search for graphics and photos on the Internet
• Google Labs . Provides prototypes of some of ideas and which Google engineers have developed
• Google language tools . To translate text.
• Google music search . To search for music and songs
• Google maps . Provide maps and satellite images
• Google news . To search news.
• Google patents . To search for patents worldwide
• Google talk . Chat online using Google.
• Google timeline . Organizes the search results chronologically which allows users to view news and other data sources on a browsable, graphical timeline.
• Google tips to improve search . More tips to enhance searches using Google
• Google tips (videos) . Tips of searching shown in videos
• Google Scholar . To search articles from journals.
• Google Videos . To search for videos on the Internet

Specialised search engines

Business

• Business.com
• Zibb

Medicine

• Health on the net: MedHunt
• Medline Plus
• MedicineNet.com

Science

• Scirus
• SciNet
• Science Hack (finding videos)

Multidisciplinary

• Intute

Meta Search engines
Meta search engines retrieves results from several search engines at one go.

• Dogpile
• Mamma