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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

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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     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   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.

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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

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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.  

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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.

Children's Internet Search Engines

More information on search engines can be found at http://www.allsearchengines.com/ and http://www.searchenginewatch.com . Some other helpful web resources and search tips can be found at The Library Network's Search Page.

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.

 
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