A Combination of Search Engine and Encyclopedia

Most search engines will only return web sites and pages based on the keywords that you type in. This means that you may end up with a lot of results that are irrelevant to what you are looking for. However, there is a new experimental search engine that takes a different approach. It is called factbites, and it searches for web sites based on the topic area of the keywords that you type in. So if you are searching for web sites about cancer, it will give you sites that are about cancer, not merely web sites that happen to have the word "cancer" in their pages. It will also display whole sentences from the web sites that come up in the list of results, so you can decide which sites will be useful for your research. This search engine is still in "beta" (experimental) mode, so some searches won't work, but I encourage you to check it out.

The search engine can be accessed at www.factbites.com.