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Search Engines
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Yahoo!
http://www.yahoo.com/
This is the pioneer of search engines, though technically it's not a search engine at all. It actually sets up a wonderful outline of categories that enable tracking an interest by keywords. Yahoo! is really a directory to the web that nicely outlines where you can look further. If Yahoo! can't locate a search item, it throws the searcher into other search engines that do the same search;
Alta Vista
http://www.altavista.digital.com/
Many think this is the best of the search engines; it has a strong tendency, however, to list useless sites unless one masters its "advanced search" techniques. Searchers who learn how to apply a little Boolean logic to a search can often pinpoint their interest.
Excite
http://www.excite.com/
Excite won top honors from the editors of NetGuide magazine as the most efficient search engine, edging out AltaVista. Excite also has a feature that allows browsers to limit searches to one type of online information, e.g., only web pages, etc.
A nice feature of Excite is its suggested keywords that are listed after one makes an initial inquiry. It also offers a "more like these" option with each URL listed. These features make it one of my favorites.
Lycos:
http://www.lycos.com/
Recent surveys show this is one of the surging search engines. This could be the most thorough of all the search engines and is quickly becoming a leading search engine.
Idg.com
http://www.idg.net/
If one wishes to search popular literature about information technology, this is the place to do so. Good for people in Internet commerce.
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