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SEARCH ENGINES -
Tools To Help You With Research Projects
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Search engines offer a keyword approach to
searching. Search engines are large databases of web documents that rely on
robots, spiders, automated programs that match words and phrases to web
document, ignoring common "stop words", like "the", "of", "a" and "an."
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Noodle Tools |
Information on how to
choose the best search engine. |
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All The Web |
Large, automatically ads
phrases from its dictionary to improve relevance of results. |
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Alta Vista |
Offers a wide variety
search. Also, news search, shopping, and multimedia search.
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Google |
Largest index. Lists the
results in order of popularity. |
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Yahoo |
User-submitted, editor
categorized entries are integrated with Google search results. |
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User enters a search
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SUBJECT DIRECTORIES
Subject directories are
catalogs of web sites collected, organized, and maintained by humans,
not robots or spiders. Directories are usually arranged in hierarchies,
which attempt to organize information into large and progressively small
subcategories.
IMAGE SEARCH ENGINES
Image search engines are search engines dedicated for image searches mainly.
META SEARCH ENGINES
Meta search engines have no databases of their own. They search across other
search tools and offer a comprehensive search. Some meta search engines offer
searches across databases you may overlook.
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