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Search all basement pages - enter keyword(s): tips (Hint: Queries are case-insensitive. When querying for multiple words, you can qualify with AND, OR and NOT. For example, "Wisconsin and River" will only fetch documents that have both "wisconsin" and "river" in them. You can include wildcards, e.g. HORSE* will match both "horse" and "horses", but HORSE will not match "horses").
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Bing (very nice)

Google (very nice)

Alta Vista (very nice)

All-The-Web (very nice)

DogPile (very nice)

Ask Jeeves (very nice)

Excite (very nice)

Google Groups (formerly DejaNews)

Searchengines.com

Medline and Current Contents (UW access only)

UW Library Catalog

Healthtouch A to Z (a searchable medical index)

Medsite Search Engine

Neuroscience Web Search (by Fred Lenherr)

SPIDER - RBSE's URL Search (from Johnson Space Center)

SIMON (from London, England)

Savvy Search (from Colorado State)

Search GopherSpace using Veronica

List of WWW robots (from Nexor, UK)

E-Directory (search engines for many countries)

inquiry.com (search computing literature by keyword)

Google Top Search Terms

Webcrawler Search Ticker

Search Engine Showdown (compare the largest search engines)

If you know of any useful links that should be included in this list please send them by e-mail to kochhar@physiology.wisc.edu

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This page last modified on : Apr. 5, 2010