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Search Engines: 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/
Meta Search engines: 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
Direct Search Engines: Direct Search Engines Similar to Meta Searches but tend to offer alternative links to inforamtion
Direct Search- http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/direct.htm
Infomine- http://infomine.ucr.edu
Specialty Search Engines: Specialty Search Engines Catalogs of Catalogs
The Search Engine Guide- http://www.searchengineguide.com
Lycos Searchable Database- http://dir.lycos.com/reference/searchable_databases
SearchAbility’s A-Z-
http://searchability.com/atoz.htm
Other Searches: 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
Other Searches: 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/
Boolean Searches: 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”