Laura Milligan has put up a useful list of niche search engines over at College@Home.

She points out that though the general Google site is often touted as the number one search engine online, college students sometimes need more specific tools to help them uncover quality information on the Web that they can use for class projects, research papers, and even job and apartment searches.

This list features a huge variety of search engines that can be useful to many of us, including tools that find photos, sound effects, summer internships, health and medical information, reference guides, and a lot more.

The links are sorted into the following categories:

Extracurricular
Quick Answer Guides
City Guides and Travel
Shopping Search Engines
Business
Academic and Reference
Social Media and People
Multisearch
TV, Video and Radio
Medical Students and Health Search
Law Students
Metasearch and Megasearch Engines
Photos, Images and Visual Search Engines
News Searches
Jobs and Real Estate