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SEARCH
THE INTERNET
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Internet Search Engines, Meta Search Engines and Finding Tools
Search
Engines
Many search engines index millions of websites,
arranging and ranking results with selected criteria
Alltheweb
Here you have access to the web, news, pictures, video and audio sources. You may search using Boolean operators, in 36 languages, or in any language. You may also filter results from specific domains like .gov, .com or .edu. This site is from Overture Services Inc.
AltaVista
Alta Vista means view from above in Spanish. It was the first searchable, full-text database on the World Wide Web in 1995, and it has changed over time. Advanced Alta Vista searches may be conducted using the Boolean search terms, "AND," "OR," and "NOT." Researchers may search for exact phrases, titles, URLs, domain locations and date ranges. They may remove words and phrases from the search. Click on "Advanced Search" for more precise, in depth research.
Alta Vista also hosts "Babelfish," the web's first internet machine translation service. Web pages may be translated to and from Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
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eXcite
Google
Google, the world's largest search engine, is often rated "the best" in some well publicized surveys. Google may be searched in 35 languages and features cached links, which provide a snapshot of each page when it was first indexed. Users may choose "Advanced Search" to use standard advanced operators, as well as some that are quite sophisticated and unique. It is possible to search synonyms in Google by putting a ~ tilde sign in front of a search term. A "travelling" GOOGLE TOOLBAR permits Google searching without being on the Google homepage.
Google Search Tips
HotBot
Lycos
Vivisimo
Wisenut
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Help Information
Metasearch Engines
Metasearch engines query existing search engines such as Overture,
Fast, FindWhat, LookSmart, Ask Jeeves, Spinks, About, Google, Inktomi,
etc., at one time for results.
Dogpile
Scans many other search engines, like Google, About, Ask Jeeves, FindWhat, WebCatalog and Yahoo, for results. Sponsored by InfoSpace, Inc. Advanced search capability, removes duplicate citations. Features advanced searching in ten languages, by date of publication and exact phrases. This search engine also allows you to omit words.
Kartoo
A relational search engine interface; instead of displaying a list
of links, in ranked order, it displays the results of a given search
in a graphical, networked format
Metacrawler
Offers advanced searching capability in ten languages.
WebCrawler
Detailed advanced search available...for example, range of publication dates, ten languages. You may include, or exclude, domain names like .edu, .gov and .co,.
Resource Search Tools
iTools
Portal for quick access to different “tools” on the
Internet, such as language, finance and map tools
Scirus
A specialty search engine that focuses only on web sites with scientific
content
Multimedia
Search Tools
Search engines for finding various multimedia (audio, video, images,
and message board sites)
BoardReader
For web forums and message boards
Ditto
For images
FAST Multimedia Search
Lycos Multimedia Search
Picsearch
For images and pictures
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