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What is a Search Engine?
A search engine allows you to find WWW (World Wide Web) pages or other material on the Internet. For instance, if you want to find information about hurricanes, you can type the word, click on a search button, and the search engine will return a list of Web pages that contain information about hurricanes. Your search results will depend on the type of search strategies the search engine allows. Please ask the Librarian if you need additional assistance.
A variety of search engines, directories and metasearch engines are available on the Web. They all have strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to learn to use more than one.
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AltaVista
AltaVista is consistently one of the largest search engines on the web, in terms of pages indexed. Its comprehensive coverage and wide range of power searching commands makes it a particular favorite among researchers.
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MetaCrawler
MetaCrawler is a metasearch engine that sends search queries out to several of the major search engines at one time, then presents results from all of them on one page. Services polled include AltaVista, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, Thunderstone, WebCrawler and Yahoo.
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Yahoo
Yahoo, one of the oldest web directories, is very popular with information seekers, using its own search technology to provide results.
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Google
Considered to be one of the top choices among searchers, this search engine provides information in various areas including web pages, stocks, news information, and catalogues.
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