My Search Engine Picks

 

Best Overall Search Engine:

 

#1. Http://www.google.com/

 

Google is one of the largest and most organized search engines on the World Wide Web.  It provides the user with organized lists of possible sites and provides a summary of content for the site to help users save time and find specific information.

 

#2. Http://www.yahoo.com

 

Yahoo is an excellent search engine that allows users to search by keyword or topic and while it is an extremely comprehensive search engine it is also well organized.

 

Best Art History Research Search Engine:

 

#1. Http://lii.org

 

This is an excellent engine to find information on any topic, art history and studio art information included.  You can do a word search or go to the arts, crafts humanities section.

 

#2. Http://www.about.com/

 

This engine also has a key word option or an arts and entertainment section with art history as an actual category to search from.

 

Best Art Lesson Search Engine:

 

#1. http://www.fazzle.com/

 

This search engine provides you with the choice between Altavista, Teoma, WiseNut, Yahoo, MSN, Fazzle Directory, and Netscape finds or you can take hits from all engines.  It is well organized and found thousands of hits for art lessons.

 

#2. http://www.google.com/

 

This engine is an excellent place to search for any type of information and has thousands of art lesson sites to choose from.

 

Best Pictures/Images Search Engine:

 

#1. http://www.picsearch.com/

 

This site allows you to search for images by keyword, artist, etc . . . it is an excellent place to find any image you need and has a variety of medias and types of pictures for each category.

 

#2. http://www.google.com

 

Google has a category called “Images” to click on and then keyword search.  It is an excellent place to find specific pictures, posters, or artwork.