Search Engines

The following links take you to different search engines, each with it's own strengths and weaknesses. If you are doing research online, I recommend doing searches with a variety of engines, because each will give you different results- and the more info you get the better. So, click on over and search away.

• Alta Vista
  -one of the most useful sites around. Alta Vista is an index search engine, it searches for web pages in a constantly updated index.
• MetaCrawler
  -a meta-indexer, in other words, MetaCrawler searches lots of indexes and compiles the results for you. A little slow, but you get a thorough search.
• Yahoo
  -a good place to start. Yahoo is a catalog search engine (like a library card catalog), so you get more concise results based on Yahoo's classification.

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