Search Engines

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.
 

Alta Vista
Yahoo!
Northern Light
Go.com
About.com
HotBot
Lycos
LookSmart
Excite
NBCi.com
WebCrawler Searching
Google
Open Directory Project
 

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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