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100 Powerful Search Engines You May Not Know About. Welcome to INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections. The Big Search Engine Index. The State Hermitage Museum: Digital Collection -- Powered by IBM. Imagine finding a Gauguin masterpiece simply by recalling the organisation of his subjects or locating a Da Vinci painting by searching for its predominant colours. IBM's experimental Query By Image Content (QBIC) search technology offers this unique ability. Search for artwork visually using tools that an artist would use. For an overview of the QBIC searches, take a look at our animated demonstrations. The QBIC Colour Search locates two-dimensional artwork in the Digital Collection that match the colours you specify. You select colours from a spectrum, define proportions, then execute the search. It really is that simple. Go to the QBIC Colour Search Demo to view a step by step demonstration of this search.

With the QBIC Layout Search, you become the artist. Copyright ©2003 State Hermitage Museum. Blinkx Video - A simple way to discover and share great videos. Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources. Got a research paper or thesis to write for school or an online class? Want to research using the Internet? Good luck. There’s a lot of junk out there — outdated pages, broken links, and inaccurate information. Using Google or Wikipedia may lead you to some results, but you can’t always be sure of accuracy.

And what’s more, you’ll only be searching a fraction of all of the resources available to you. Google, the largest search database on the planet, currently has around 50 billion web pages indexed. Do you think your local or university librarian uses Google? Topics Covered in this Article Deep Web Search Engines | Art | Books Online | Business | Consumer | Economic and Job Data | Finance and Investing | General Research | Government Data | International | Law and Politics | Library of Congress | Medical and Health | STEM | Transportation Deep Web Search Engines To get started, try using a search engine that specializes in scouring the invisible web for results. Art Books Online Business.