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Internet search tools include:

search engines (website databases created by computers & searchable by keywords);
subject directories (relatively small databases of websites, created by people & organized by subject);
and metasearch engines (tools that search multiple search engines simultaneously).

Search Engines

Subject Directories

About.com
Millions of articles on thousands of topics, written and updated by a network of hundreds of helpful experts.

Canadian Information By Subject
An information service developed by the Library and Archives Canada to provide links to information about Canada from Internet resources around the world.

ipl2: information you can trust
Created by a merger of the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII), this site offers both a directory of high-quality online information sources and an "Ask a Librarian" service.

Virtual Reference Library
The best of the Library and the Internet, brought to you by librarians" with a special focus on Canadian and Ontario information. Maintained by the Toronto Public Library.

Metasearch Engines

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