NHS Library: JARP: Search Engines

Search Engines beyond Google

RefSeek RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.
Infotopia Academic search engine trusting only websites selected by librarians and teachers. Created for students and teachers.
The Virtual Learning Rescource Center The Virtual Learning Resources Center indexes thousands of the best academic information websites, selected by teachers and library professionals worldwide, in order to provide to students and teachers with current, valid information for school and university academic projects!
Duck Duck Go The key feature of DuckDuckGo is that it doesn’t retain its users’ data, so it won’t track you or manipulate results based on your behavior. So if you’re particularly spooked by Google’s all-seeing, all-knowing eye, this might be the one for you.
Creative Commons Search CC Search is particularly handy if you need to find copyright free images for your website. Just type your query in then click on your chosen site you want to search.
Kiddle Easy Access to basic information. Safe search: sites appearing in Kiddle search results satisfy family friendly requirements, as we filter sites with explicit or deceptive content. ... Safe, famous sites that are written for adults, providing expert content, but are harder for kids to understand. Filtered by Google safe search.

Socialmention*
It allows you to easily track and measure what people are saying about you, your company, a new product, or any topic across the web's social media landscape in real-time. Social Mention monitors 100+ social media properties directly including: Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, YouTube, Digg, Google etc.
Addict-o-matic
Addictomatic searches the best live sites on the web for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images. It's the perfect tool to keep up with the hottest topics, perform ego searches and feed your addiction for what's up, what's now or what other people are feeding on.
Wefollow - Twitter Search
The latest Tweets from Wefollow (@wefollow). A directory of prominent people organized by interests.

7 MOST popular Search Engines
Here’s a look at seven of the top search engines (that’s right, there’s more than one), a brief exploration of the ins-and-outs of each, and some links to some of the best articles on how to market to and monetize them.

Dailymotion
Heavily focused on entertainment, but lots of useful news clips from global news corporations such as CNN International. Based out of France.
BBC Video Nation
Although this site is no longer maintained, it hosts a very large number of videos from around the world.
Critical Past
Vintage stock footage and millions of stock photo images comprising one of the world's largest royalty-free archival footage collections.
Ted Talks
TED is a nonpartisan nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks. TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 110 languages.

Science.gov
Your gateway to US Federal Science; it searches over 50 databases and over 2,100 websites from various US federal agencies.
Academic Search Engines and Databases
This page contains a representative list of major databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and other articles. As the distinction between a database and a search engine is unclear for these complex document retrieval systems.