Search Engines: the tools we need to learn to use well / HELP   ENGINES   TUNING 

Use the following operators to require or exclude items: AND, OR, AND NOT, NEAR. Phrase: " " Wildcard: * Use only lower case unless you want your search to be case sensitive.

HELP

www.stpt.com/general/srchhelp.html Starting Point: Search Help: defines search engines, gives simple instructions on using search, gives simple examples.

http://searchenginewatch.com/ Search Engine Watch a true guide to Engines.

http://spam.abuse.net/spam/ Major site to combat spam, tells you what to do, what not to do and how to help fight the battle.

http://www.beaucoup.com/ Beaucoup connects you to over 1000 engines divided into categories for easy hunting.

http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Help/Tutorial/index.html Chebucto Internet Guide and tutorial, Getting Started Guide. An easy way to slide into using today's technology, nice, simple. If new to all this start here.   Version française available.

http://www.onlineinc.com/onlinemag/OL1998/hock5.html How To Do Field Searching on the Search Engines this article from Online tells you which search engines allow you to search which specific fields (URL, images, date, title, language, etc.) and how, with a handy comparison chart.

http://www.refdesk.com/help.html Internet Help from My Virtual Reference Desk is a listing of helpful links, tutorials, online handbooks, hints and FAQ.

http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/tools.html#general_internet_information Voice of the Shuttle very choice links to help about using your browser and searching the web.  Start and finish with this site's links, and you will feel at home on the web.

http://www.webteacher.org/macnet/indextc.html Web Teacher your source for web knowledge, start with their Web Primer and Web Tutorial. Then work down their list of lessons to increase your knowledge of the web and it's workings. Thanks to the National Cable Television Association and Tech corps for all this great information at one location in easy to understand terms.

ENGINES

None of the search engines are comprehensive, that is why one works so much better for one search but not another. So try out the different ones and see which ones work the best for you.

www.tamu.edu/new/search/index.html popular search engines with their logos AltaVista, Excite, HotBot, Infoseek, Lycos, Magellan, MetaCrawler, Yahoo. This site allows you to enter your search from it, hit their key and they will search. Also there is online maps, 411 people search and yellow pages

http://home.about.com  About.com, searches site (with their 500+ human guides) or the Web

http://www.altavista.com Altavista

www.clearinghouse.net Argus Clearinghouse

http://www.ebig.com  Britannica Internet Guide

http://www.b2bscene.com/industryportal   BusinessWeb is "The Source for Business Knowledge"

http://www.dejanews.com  DejaNews for news group search

http://www.ceebd.co.uk/ The Central and Eastern European Directory for business or education

http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/direct.htm Direct List "which gets you to over 600 search tools and directories for specific subject areas--it beats using general search engines by a long shot."

http://www.europeonline.com  Europe Online

http://ece.eure.de/eurolink.htm  Eurolink

http://www.excite.com  Excite

http://hotbot.lycos.com/  HotBot

http://infomine.ucr.edu/ Infomine, Search 14,000+ Academically Valuable Resources

http://www.go.com/  Infoseek, has become go.com

http://www.lycos.com Lycos

http://lycospro.lycos.com/ Lycos Pro search with drop down menu to select how search is narrowed.

http://magellan.excite.com  Magellan (find similar button)

http://www.metacrawler.com MetaCrawler

http://home.about.com  Mining Company has become About.com, searches site (with their 500 human guides) or the Web

http://www.newstrawler.com/nt/nt_home.html Newstrawler "is a wonderful new meta-search engine with a twist, it searches hundreds of news archives across the net and it does it all at once."

http://www.stpt.com/ Starting Point

http://www.webcrawler.com/ WebCrawler

http://www.yahoo.com Yahoo

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