Search Engines & Tips

Select the right "tool."
Take full advantage of the tool's features to narrow your search.

Search Engines:

AltaVista Engine with image & video finder.  Translation. 
Full-text of 160 million pages. Supports +, -, and " "
Teoma Engine.  Divides "hits" up for you.
Google Engine.  Ranking of relevance uses "links."
AskJeeves Type in your question. Use "natural language."  If you do not get a good response, try re-phrasing or re-wording your question.
HotBot Engine. Full text of 110 million pages.  Supports +,-, " "
InfoSeek Engine.  Full text of 75 million pages.  **Similar search** Supports +,- , " " No truncation
Yahoo Engine & directory combo. Best known directory.
Beaucoup Categorizes search engines.   You select the subject
and it suggests the engine to use.

Indexes and Directories:

Yahoo Select categories. 
Infomine Scholarly Internet resources.  Annotated.  Search by title or keyword.
About.com "Experts" volunteer their time and expertise to compose lists of resources.
Search by subject.
Scout Report Best web sites are indexed. Search by subject and keyword.
Librarian's Index
to the Internet 		Aimed at public library audience. Better organized categories than most.
WebCrawler Reviewed sites.  Supports +, -, and " "

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