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A large number of people use
Internet search engines to assist them in locating a
variety of information on the Internet.
Internet search engines have also been improving
with advances in technology and do afford the avid
researcher, a viable avenue for gathering research
information.
The search engines listed below have been included
only for information purposes only. There is
no claim being made as to the quality of the service
or the ability of the program to provide the needed
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Alexa |
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Alexa's strength in addition to
being a useful search engine, is the feature of
providing related links and traffic rankings for web
sites in its index. This is a very useful
search engine. |
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AltaVista |
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One of the earliest search
engines to come on the scene, AltaVista claims to
provide "the most comprehensive search experience on
the web". In conjunction with the other
available search engines, AltaVista would be an
added bonus for searching the web. |
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Ask.com |
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Formerly known as Ask Jeeves.
Still a very useful search engine. |
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Gigablast |
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Gigablast, with index of
approximately 10 billion web pages has the option of
searching in various languages. Search
results are usually returned in the language the
query was made. |
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Google |
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Google is listed as a major
search engine which is constantly improving.
One is able to retrieve information on various
subjects including images and documents in various
formats such as PDF documents. |
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HotBot |
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Results from HotBot are from
Yahoo, Google and Teoma. |
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Lycos |
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Started as a search engine
research project, Lycos has evolved into a search
engine and web portal with more of an entertainment
focus. |
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MSN Search |
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MSN search is provided by
Microsoft. In addition to the regular search
functions, Microsoft has enabled searches of its own
encyclopedia, Encarta. |
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Teoma |
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Teoma has a smaller
index than some of the other search engines but
search results are still quite good. |
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Engines |
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Metasearch engines have an advantage over other
search engines in that they submit queries to
multiple search engines at the same time. This
feature allows for the retrieval of search
information from more than one general search engine
simultaneously. |
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Dogpile |
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With a very attractive search interface, Dogpile
searches more that two dozen search engines
simultaneously along with newsgroups, FTP sites and
other major search sites. |
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MetaCrawler |
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MetaCrawler searches major search engines and
directories at the same time, just like Dogpile.
However, search results produced by MetaCrawler are
organized into a single list with duplicates
removed. |
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