Search Engines
For a quick return of a few good hits:
Google ranks the
hits.
Ixquick is a meta search engine
which returns top ten results.
To focus a broad academic subject:
Librarians Index to the Internet
allows you to search a subject tree.
Northern Light returns
results categorized into folders.
Yahoo! is like the Librarians Index
to the Internet, but commercialized.
If you think you're doing a search that has been
done before:
Ask Jeeves! is a collection of
answers to questions in "plain English".
If you need to include often ignored words or
phrases in your search:
InfoSeek and Alta
Vista include small words (such as a, be, not, the) in their
searches.
If you have general keyword(s) but need to refine
your search:
The Advance search in FAST Search
uses a template to include or exclude specified text in the search.
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EFFECTIVE WEB SEARCHES
To be sure that you are effectively using the web, you
must first make sure you are doing an effective search. And then,
most importantly, you must evaluate the results.
Follow the steps below to choose and make good use of the
correct search engine. Then visit Evaluating
the Web to evaluate your results.
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Make sure you're using the right
search engine
Check the list to the left
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Read the help area for your search
engine
It will tell you how to use Boolean operators - AND, NOT, OR, () -
to support your search
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Check your spelling!
Search engines are very unforgiving of spelling errors
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Use a + (plus) to indicate words
that must be present in your document and a - (minus) to indicate
words that must not be present
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Put phrases in quotes.
This tells the search engine "use these words in this exact
order"
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