Here are links to some of the more popular internet search engines and indices. Click on one and you will be asked for keywords, phrases or concepts which it will then use to search the internet. Interestingly, you will, at times. get very different results with the different engines. Do some experimenting to understand the differences.
Keep in mind that each engine has
slightly different rules about how it will run a search. Often
they have examples right on the search page or a link to click on
that will provide you with more information.
The Searching the internet page from Yahoo contains many links that
provide tutorials, advice, suggestions, and strategies for
searching the internet along with some comparisions of the
various serch engines and strategies. Many of them are well worth
exploring and will help you to increase your internet skills.
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