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Confused? Our Computer Services Department can
help, check out How
to Search the Internet for search tips. Two more
good sources to help you are Finding
Information on the Internet and Search
Engines tells you how to get the most out of
these essential sites. Much shorter is the Internet
Public Library's Web
Searching, which briefly describes eight or so of
the most common engines and lists their strengths and
weaknesses. A major site with extensive information
on how to use search engines is Search
Engine Watch.
Web Search Engines
AllSearchEngines -
A very handy site—lists ‘em all. This site gives you
the major search engines, like AltaVista, HotBot,
NorthernLight, etc., plus the specific engines for
Career & Jobs, Entertainment, News & Weather,
and areas you’ve never given any thought to.
The How to Search , Search Tools and Tools Chart pages
are cool, and the Domain Post page is a true revelation.
Wanna buy a domain?
Ask
an Expert - Connects you to sites where you can
get a question answered by an expert in the subject.
Ask an Amish expert, ask a volcanologist, ask a space
scientist, ask a hurricane hunter, and thousands more.
Ask - Formally
known as Ask Jeeves, Ask.com is a search engine that
tries to improve your search by suggesting terminology
that will expand or narrow your topic.
Google Groups-
Search the more than 25,000 Internet newsgroups
for information on almost any imaginable subject.
Excite
- Searches keywords of 60 million web pages including
most archived mailing lists. Includes brief annotations,
unlike Yahoo.
Google
- Most widely used search engine based on simplicity
of use and quality of results.
HotBot - Search
the full text of 110 million web pages. Easy
to use a la Yahoo, lots of stuff a la Alta Vista.
Go.com - Formerly
known as Infoseek, Go.com offers news and Web portal
services in addition to a Yahoo-powered search engine.
Knowledge
Hound - Specializes in finding how-to information,
from the everyday (how to make a paper airplane, how
to spot a fake antique) to the uncommon (how to make
bagpipes, how to make a digital clock).
Librarians’ Index to
the Internet - More than 5000 resources useful
to public library users, evaluated and annotated by
librarians.
Lycos
- Indexes the full text of 50 million web pages.
Powerful engine with something for everyone, if a
little clumsy.
Metacrawler
- A search engine that searches other search engines.
Using it is like submitting your query to many search
engines simultaneously.
Yahoo!
- Yahoo offers access to over 500,000 web pages.
Yahooligans is a search engine specifically designed
for kids. Hourly news. Easy to use.
If you need to search for images, use Ditto.com
or the Google
Image Search.
Didn't find what you need? Don't forget the
resources available at the 17
Brevard County Libraries: roughly one million
books, magazines, databases, audio books, videos and
CD's, along with reference librarians to guide you
in your search. You can search our holdings (and reserve
books, etc.) on GeoWeb.
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