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World Wide Search Links
The following links to popular search engines have been selected by Sunrise Ventures to provide comprehensive resource links for searching the World-Wide Web (WWW).
Descriptions:
- AltaVista-DEC, developed and sponsored by Digital Equipment Corp., this search engine is fast, easy to use, and has a large catalog of sites.
- Google/Groups Originally Deja News, a search resource for topics in Internet Discussion Groups, especially News Groups.
- Excite, developed by StorageTek of Louisville, Colorado, is comprehensive for upper level web pages and provides "concept" searches as well as "word" searches.
- Google A new and highly comprehensive search site.
- Hot Bot A product of Wired magazine, this search engine was recently cited by an article in Science magazine as one of the fastest and most comprehensive.
- Infohiway: This search engine has been developed by EarthLink (formerly, Rocky Mountain Internet), a Colorado based company. It will find "fuzzy" related sites and has electronic commerce links.
- Lycos, may be the most comprehensive in terms of total web pages, and it provides a discussion of each page returned.
- Northern Lights is a comprehensive search that not only includes searches among web sites but also in special collections, many of which are free. Northern Lights is very useful for finding publications by, and news about people.
- Search.com, now a product of CNET, this site was originally designed by Daniel Dreiling at Colorado State University. This search engine invokes searches in multiple search engines in parallel. It may take a little longer but does a thorough job.
- Wand, created in Colorado by World Access Network Direct, is a specialized search engine for buyer/supplier subscribers, who can find each other. It is especially useful for import/export and works with official "Harmonized Codes"
- Web Crawler: This one, used by America On-Line, is fast and shows a large number of results.
- Yahoo, provides many helpful category menus to aid in web searching. It was created at Stanford University. Includes People Finder, an excellent data base for finding people.
General notes on using search engines
Most search engines have self-explanatory instructions on how best to use them. Generally if one is interested in a topic that can be expressed by one word, such as telemedicine, simply type the word into the field and click on the search button. If the topic has multiple meanings, such as saturn , then it is advisable to use several words such as saturn cars, saturn +cars , or "saturn cars" , if one is interested in the saturn brand of automobile. If one is interested in the planet saturn, then one should enter words arranged as saturn planet, saturn +planet , or "planet saturn" , etc.
Generally, placing a phrase within quotes directs the search engine to look for web sites where the entire phrase is found, rather than the separate words within the phrase. The use of a plus sign (+) just in front of words will usually direct the search engine to look for web sites that have each of the words but not necessarily in any order nor in the same place in the text.
Most search engines will only find text. If the word or words you are looking for are embedded in gifs or other graphic material, they will probably be overlooked by the search engine.
If one is interested in entering a person's name, first check to see if the search engine has a feature for finding names, then try entering the name in various ways, for example Phillips V. Bradford, Phillips + Bradford, "Phillips V. Bradford", Bradford, Phillips , or "Phillips Verner Bradford" , etc.
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