Online Legal Research Sources - Legal Indexes & Search Engines

Legal Indexes

Internet Search Engines

  • Internet guides, search tools & web design from the Librarians' Index to the Internet.
  • AllSearchEngines.com: links to major search engines, topical search engines, meta search engines, and search engine comparisons.
  • NoodleQuest, Search Engine Wizard: Directs users to the most appropriate search engine to meet their needs.
  • Profusion: a directory of databases and meta-search engine.
  • Legal Research Search Engine (Cornell), searches law library websites for legal research guides, pathfinders, and tutorials.
  • LawCrawler, a legal web & databases search engine from Findlaw.
  • LawRunner, legal search engine.
  • Google Scholar, provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources.
  • Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia with millions of articles contributed collaboratively using Wiki software
  • Bing / Yahoo, a general search engine
  • Twitter Search, a real-time search tool allowing user to view what people are posting on a topic on Twitter.
  • Technorati, a resource for searching blog posts.
  • Search engine guide, a guide to internet search engines categorized by topic
  • Metasearch engines allow searches of multiple sites at one time - Dogpile, Clusty and Mamma
  • Rollyo, allows for the creation of a search engine that searches only selected websites.
  • WolframAlpha, described as a finding engine, returns actual answers for your search request.
  • SenseBot, a semantic search engine that generates a text summary of multiple Web pages on your search query.
  • Mahalo, a human assisted web search.

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