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See
also Links for Kids and
Links for Readers
Search
Engines
About
(www.about.com): Good
site for general queries. Excellent web site directory.
Alta Vista (www.altavista.com):
A full-text index of millions of web pages. It is very fast, and
can be tailored for precise searching.
Ask.com (www.ask.com)
Google
(www.google.com): Highly
recommended site for searching broad and specific queries. User
friendly interface with searching techniques capabilities.
HotBot (www.hotbot.com):
Can be be used for complex and carefully
targeted Web searches. Allows advanced and personalized searching
techniques.
Yahoo (www.yahoo.com): Yahoo! has an excellent web site directory as well as search capabilities.
Meta
Search Engines
Search engines
that relay queries through numerous other search engines:
Dogpile (www.dogpile.com):
Full bore Boolean searching of multiple engines (if allowed in the
specific database). It can look into ftp sites, Usenet,mailing lists,
and web pages simultaneously.
Mamma (www.mamma.com):
This one is fast. It can look into up to eight engines at the same
time. Use Power Search to customize searches.
MetaCrawler (www.metacrawler.com):
Convenient simultaneous searching of the more popular engines.
Search.com (www.search.com):
Good indexing on some of the smaller and more specialized engines.
See
a list of recommended links
to sites arranged by subject.
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