Search Tips:

 

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Use different types of search engines ~

Seach Engines

• Database inventory gathered by software based robots that travel the net, indexing the text of the webpages they find

• More sites retrieved

• Alta Vista

• Ask

• Excite

• Google

• Live Search

• Lycos

• MSN Search

• Yahoo!

 

 

Directories 

• An index hand picked by a living and breathing human being ...

• Fewer sites, better quality...

• About (A directory, magazine and encyclopedia all in one)

• Open Directory Project

• Pandia Plus Web Directory

• Yahoo!  Directory

 

Meta-Search Engines

• Search several search engines at once

• Many experts however, including Berkeley, recommend using one search engine at a time

• Dog Pile (Searches Google, Yahoo, LookSmart, Ask, MSN search, and more. )

• Meta-Crawler (Searches Google, Yahoo! Search, MSN Search, Ask Jeeves, About, MIVA, LookSmart and more)

 

Clustering

• Shows you themes or clusters within results

• Clusty (Currently searches a number of free search engines and directories, not Google or Yahoo.)

• KartOO (Provides interactive visual map of results)