Recommended Internet Search Engines
AltaVista	Search the entire full-text of Web pages and Usenet articles; has many advanced search features such as Boolean logic and includes LookSmart
Ask Jeeves	Utilizes natural language searching
Dogpile	Searches multiple engines simultaneously
Excite	Searches Web pages and the past two weeks of Usenet postings
Google	Searches Web pages by PageRank which ranks Web pages by the number of times other Web pages have linked to a page, and matches a page's content as well as text.
Google Scholar	Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
HotBot	Searches full descriptions of the Web, Usenet, and top news sites
Librarians' Index to the Internet	A guide to Internet resources organized and selected by librarians with no advertisement!
Lycos	Searches the Web, sounds, pictures, and personal homepages
Northern Light Search	Organizes search results into handy custom folders
WebCrawler	Searches well-traveled Web sites; displays relevancy ranking
Yahoo	Searches Web sites that are submitted by users and catalogued manually

Strategies for Searching the Web

If you want to retrieve the best Web documents when you search the Web, then you need to spend some time learning successful methods for searching the Web. I recommend that you get to know at least one search engine well, that is, learn the advance searching techniques for a particular search engine and become familiar with its limitations as well as its qualities. The following tutorials will help to guide you through the Web searching process.

Exploring the World-Wide Web is an introduction to the Internet and World Wide Web. This tutorial will explain URLs, the basics of using Netscape, how to use indexes and search tools on the Web, and basic Hypertext Markup Language(HTML). This Web site is maintained by the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education.

ICYouSee Guide to Critical Thinking About What You See on the Web. This site contains a concise overview of the things you need to bear in mind when using Web resources for research, a practice assignment to try out what you have learned, and links to other Web sites for more information on evaluating Web resources. This Web site is maintained by a librarian at Ithaca College Library.

Searching the World Wide Web: Strategies, Analyzing your topic, Choosing search tools and How to Choose the Search Tools You Need are two tutorials that will show you how to develop a search strategy that will get you to the Web documents you need. You will learn when to successfully use Meta-Search Engines, subject directories, and Webliographies. And how to refine your searches by using Boolean operators, truncation and +/- techniques. This Web site is maintained by the University of California Berkeley Library.

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