Search the Web

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SEARCH   ENGINES
Google - Quotes w/phrases, + only to include stop words (e.g., "pig +in +a poke") or to require specific domain in URL (e.g., +edu), - to exclude Help    [Advanced Search] Seaches full text of pages. Ranks searches based on number of links to a page. Best for relevancy of results and number of pages searched. Also has subject directory. Over 1 billion indexed.	HotBot - Quotes w/phrases, + to require, - to exclude. Search for all the words any of the words exact phrase the page title the person links to this URL Boolean search Help    [Advanced Search] Searches full text of web pages. Direct Hit gives most popular. Media type searches for pages containing specific technologies like JavaScript or Shockwave or images, audio, etc. Over 110 million indexed.
AltaVista - Quotes w/phrases, + to require, - to exclude. Web Pages    Images    Video    Audio in any language Chinese Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Spanish Swedish     Help    [Advanced Search]	Wisenut - Quotes w/phrases, + to include all words, - to exclude certain words. [Advanced Search] Newer search engine, Wiseneut has a large database, trying to rival Google. Currently does not have as many advanced search features.

METASEARCH   ENGINES   (Search Multiple Engines at Once)
MetaCrawler - Searches AltaVista, Excite, Google, Infoseek, Lycos, WebCrawler, & Yahoo. Search The Web Newsgroups Audio/MP3   any all phrase   Searches AltaVista, Excite, Google, Infoseek, FastSearch, Yahoo, and more. Can customize. Also searches Newsgroups. MetaSpy shows most recent searches by others.	Ixquick - Searches AltaVista, Fast Search, Excite, HotBot, Infoseek, MSN, Yahoo & more. Web  News  MP3  Pictures  Searches AltaVista, Fast Search, Excite, HotBot, Infoseek, MSN, Yahoo & more.Great feature: Aggregates and ranks results. Eliminates duplicates.
AskJeeves - Searches questions database & About.com, AltaVista, Excite, GoTo.com, & WebCrawler. Help Answers to millions of questions from evaluated sites. Searches AltaVista, Goto.com, WebCrawler, Excite, and About.com.Good for simple questions. - Use Remove Frames feature to see URL of search result.

SUBJECT   DIRECTORIES   (Selected Resources)
Librarians' Index to the Internet    ALL Subject Title Description Links Help   [Advanced Search] Resources useful to public library users, evaluated & annotated by librarians. Items are categoriezed and subcategorized by directories, databases, and specific resources. Over 6,500.	Yahoo! - If no matching Categories or Sites found, search will go to its Google database.     Help [Advanced Search] Indexes submitted web pages. Organized by topics. Lots of extra features. Over 2 million.
OTHER SEARCH ENGINES
Country-Based Search Engines - lists search engines for 200+ countries.	Froogle - search engine to find products.

Above information was adapted from LII's Recommended Search Tools.
(see full chart for detailed search techniques) and from InFoPeople Project, http://infopeople.org/search/chart.html, by Carole Leita, supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. This document may be printed or copied for non-commercial use without further permission of the author, provided this notice is present.