Search the Web

Contents:

• Search Engines scan the Web for sites matching your search terms. The more specific your topic, the better they work.
• Metasearch Engines search several search engines at once.
• Subject Guides are lists of Web sites arranged by topic. Use one of these if you are looking for general information.

Search Engines:

• Google
  One of the largest and most popular search engines. Includes separate image, news, and other search engines.
• Yahoo! and Alta Vista
  Two other large search engines. Separate searches for images and news; Alta Vista also searches video and audio files.
• Ask Jeeves
  Enter a search in plain English and Ask Jeeves responds with a series of questions to focus your search.

Meta Search Engines:

Note: Multiple search engines usually retrieve fewer results per search engine than searching them individually.

• DogPile
  One of the best multiple search engines. There are options to search news, images, audio, and multimedia.
• Vivisimo
  Another good metasearch engine, you can specify which engines it searches.
• KartOO
  Uses a visual display instead of a list to show results.

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Subject Guides:

• Yahoo!
  The original subject guide with a hierarchical structure of subject headings.
• Librarians' Index to the Internet and Scout Report Archives
  Two directories compiled by librarians
• Internet Public Library: Subject Collections
  An annotated collection of high quality Internet resources
• About
  Hundreds of guides organized into 23 channels. Each guide is compiled and maintained by a subject expert.