Reference Search Engines

Learn about Scirus, an extremely comprehensive search engine that only searches science-specific content. You can find science news, science articles, and even find science fair projects here.

Need quick answers to factual answers? You can use Answers.com to track down fast facts to common (and not so common) queries.

Find word definitions, antonyms, synonyms, and more with Dictionary.com, a free online dictionary that searches over 20 different dictionaries.

Find magazine articles with MagPortal,a magazine search engine. Find science articles, news articles, health articles, and much more. MagPortal also lets you save and annotate magazine articles; it's a great tool for researches and students alike.

Factbites is an encyclopedia crossed with a search engine. Factbites endeavors to pull facts from web pages or online encyclopedias and presents them in your search results.

OneLook is a dictionary and translation metasearch engine. OneLook searches more than 900 online dictionaries at the time of this writing in order to find whatever definition that you're looking for; in addition, you can use OneLook to to find translations of a particular word in other languages.

Education World is an extremely deep site that not only has a search engine focusing only on educational and teaching-related Web sites, but also has extensive resources for educators and parents. It's an excellent site that has been around now for about ten years, and should be on every teacher's "Must Have" list of online bookmarks.

FindArticles, a property of LookSmart, is a search engine dedicated to finding articles "from leading academic, industry and general interest publications." It's an invaluable tool for the casual and advanced Web searcher.