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Title: Search Engines


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Search Engines
  • Yahoo- http//www.yahoo.com
  • MSN Search- http//search.msn.com
  • Alta Vista- http//www.altavista.com
  • Lycos- http//www.lycos.com/
  • Excite- http//www.excite.com/

2
Meta Search engines
  • Meta Search or Multi-threaded search engines
    actually search the search engines for hits
  • Profusion- http//www.profusion.com
  • Metacrawler- http//www.metacrawler.com
  • Metor- http//www.metor.com
  • Dogpile- http//www.dogpile.com
  • Google- http//www.google.com

3
Direct Search Engines
  • Similar to Meta Searches but tend to offer
    alternative links to inforamtion
  • Direct Search- http//gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/gprice/d
    irect.htm
  • Infomine- http//infomine.ucr.edu

4
Specialty Search Engines
  • Catalogs of Catalogs
  • The Search Engine Guide- http//www.searchenginegu
    ide.com
  • Lycos Searchable Database- http//dir.lycos.com/re
    ference/searchable_databases
  • SearchAbilitys A-Z-
  • http//searchability.com/atoz.htm

5
Other Searches
  • Addresses/Emails
  • Infospace- http//www.infospace.com/
  • Bigfoot- http//www.bigfoot.com/
  • WorldPages- http//search.worldpages.com/
  • MSN Yellowpages- http//yellowpages.msn.com/
  • Maps
  • Expedia- http//www.expedia.com
  • Mapquest- http//www.mapquest.com
  • MapBlast- http//mapblast.com

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Other Searches
  • Dictionaries/Encyclopedias-
  • Dictionary.com- http//www.dictionary.com/
  • Merriam-Webster-
  • http//www.Merriam-Webster.com/
  • Thesaurus.com- http//www.thesaurus.com/
  • Encarta- http//encarta.msn.com/
  • Pictures-
  • Corbis- http//www.corbis.com/

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Boolean Searches
  • Purebred Dogs- Will yield hits for all pages
    containing
  • purebred
  • Dogs
  • purebred dogs
  • Entering Purebred Dogs will yield hits for ONLY
    those pages containing that specific phrase!
  • Use AND Or- Purebred Dogs AND Barking
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