Internet Search Engines: Moravian College Astronomy

Internet Search Engines

Internet Search Engines   Multi-Search Engine Tools   Newsgroups


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If you want to hunt for something in particular on the giant cyber-library known as the World Wide Web, try one of these search engines. They are very simple to use, and will send you 'round the world to Internet sites of all kinds!

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INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES

Google
A keyword search engine...

Ask.com
Ask as sentence...

WebCrawler:
A keyword search engine. It has a subject index, too.

Excite:
A keyword search engine with a subject index...

Lycos:

Yahoo:
This engine doesn't seem to do as well with keyword searching; however, Yahoo has a very nifty subject index, organized by categories in a heirarchial pattern.





MULTI-SEARCH ENGINE TOOLS

Dogpile: A Multi-Engine Search Tool:
Yahoo!, Lycos' A2Z, Excite Guide, Go2.com, WWW Yellow Pages, PlanetSearch, Thunderstone, What U Seek, Magellan, Lycos, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, AltaVista, Excite & HotBot.

Zoo:



NEWSGROUPS

Google Groups
Gain information from newsgroups

Virtual Software Library's FTP File Finder:
Use this to find those files you've been looking for via FTP! You type in the filename (or part of it, using wildcards) and it will show you all the FTP sites containing that file.



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