Search Engines

1
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

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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