SURF MegaSearch
SEARCH THE INTERNET
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SEARCH TIPS: The key to searching the internet is to limit your
keywords to be as specific as possible for what you want. When you
enter the words or phrases into the search put quotation marks around
each term. If you have multiple terms put an "and" in between terms.
EXAMPLE: "golf courses" and "arizona". This will check the entire internet
for pages with the terms golf courses and arizona most frequently used.
If you dont put the quotes around the terms, the search will find
all pages with the words golf or courses or arizona and return those
results, that obviously is thousands of pages. Secondly, there are
multiple search engines on the net, they all do the same thing for
the most part. You will see alot of ads for search engines, I have included
a list below (that you can click on if you want) so you will recognize
them if you see them in your travels on the net.
- Yahoo: Subject guide and free-text searching of the World Wide Web
- Alta Vista, free-text searching of more than 30 million web pages from Digital Equipment
- Excite's concept searching is highly effective
- Infoseek offers searches and a personal news service
- Lycos, which began at Carnegie-Mellon, has free-text searching of more than 39 million URLs
- Hotbot from Hotwired and Inktomi
- WiredSource Selected links, with descriptions, in two dozen categories
- search.com has the standard engines as well as more obscure topic-oriented choices
- Profusion combines major search engines and filters the results
- SavvySearch and Metacrawler offer simultaneous searches of multiple Web search engines
- NetGuide offers ratings of websites and suggests net "events" and sites to see
- Magellan describes and rates Web resources. Also visit Voyeur to spy on other searchers
- Looksmart, from Reader's Digest, searches a smaller number sites chosen by humans
- The Mining Company has humans who scour the Net and assemble mini-sites on a wide variety of topics.
- Reference.com searches and archives mailing lists, web forums and Usenet groups.
- ForumOne One-stop guide to forum topics around the Web
- Dejanews lets you search for Usenet postings or posters
- C|Net combines computer news, reviews, software and services. Also see their news.com
- Achoo and The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences catalog health related sites
- Gopher Jewels an index of gopher sites (yes, they still exist)
- Einet Galaxy: A topic oriented guide to the Internet
- Archieplex: Search FTP archives around the Internet
- Other ways to search the World Wide Web
- Liszt, Tile.Net, and Nova will help you find Internet mailing lists
**I think Alta Vista is the best of the bunch and have included a direct
link below. In addition, for an advanced search, use the link below labeled
"advance searh". This search uses multiple engines at once and gives
a nice layout of the results.
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Advanced Search-Profusion-May take an extra minute
The Best of the Rest MegaSearchers
Metacrawlers: simultaneous search of many search engines
MetaCrawler
Multithreaded Web search of six major sites
SavvySearch (New): Simultaneous search of many Net search engines.
Starting Point: Metasearch page.
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