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Inline/Online: Fundamentals of the Internet and the World Wide Web, 2/e
Raymond Greenlaw, Armstrong Atlantic State University
Ellen Hepp, The University of New Hampshire
Searching the World Wide Web

Searching the World Wide Web


Review
(http://www.kcpl.lib.mo.us/search/srchengines.htm)

Kansas City Public Library's introduction to search engines with detailed reviews of several search engines.
Search Engine Watch
(http://searchenginewatch.com/)

Lots of excellent information about search engines.
Search Engine Showdown
(http://searchengineshowdown.com/)

"The Users' Guide to Web Searching" features comparisons of and statistics about many search engines.
Yahoo!
(http://www.yahoo.com/)

The first search engine and directory service.
Metacrawler
(http://www.metacrawler.com/index.html)

Great metasearch engine developed at the University of Washington.
Altavista
(http://www.altavista.com/)

One of our favorite search engines.
Go
(http://www.go.com/)

Another of our favorite search engines.
Northern Light
(http://www.northernlight.com/)

One of the newer search engines.
Google
(http://www.google.com/)

A search engine that ranks sites by hyperlink popularity.
Bigfoot
(http://bigfoot.com/)

Great for locating lost friends.
Web Robots
(http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html)

A great introduction to Web Robots, Wanderers, and Spiders.
Hits Tutorial
(http://www.northernwebs.com/set/)

Search engine tutorial for Web designers.
Search Engine Submission
(http://www.sofer.com/research/searchmain.html)

Provides information about "how to improve the ranking of your site on the major search engines."
Search Engine Secrets
(http://www.globalserve.net/~iwb/search/)

Information about search engines that will enable you to "increase visibility and traffic to your site."
Pacific Crest Trail
(http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Pacific+Crest+Trail&btnG=Google+Search)

The longest continuous foot path in the world.








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