SEARCH BY SUBJECT

Yahoo! - If no matching Yahoo results, search will default to an Alta Vista Simple Search. News - People - Yellow Pages Search Options    Advanced Syntax

Librarians' Index to the Internet - Search Tips ALL Subjects Titles Descriptions

SEARCH ENGINES

Google - Automatically uses "AND" (no + needed); - removes keyword; Double quotes for phrase. Google ranks searches based on number of citations by other web sites.

Lycos - Lycos catalogs Web pages rather than entire sites. + requires keyword, - removes. Double quotes for phrase. Search for sounds, pictures. The Web Web Site Reviews Personal Homepages Discussion Groups Reuters News Weather (city) Cities Stock (symbol) Books Pictures Sounds Recipes Advanced Search

Hotbot - + requires keyword, - removes keyword. Double quotes for phrase. Image, Audio, Video, Shockwave searching. all the words any of the words exact phrase the page title the person links to this URL Boolean phrase SuperSearch

Alta Vista - + requires keyword, - removes. Double quotes for phrase. * to truncate. the Web Usenet Display in Standard Form in Compact Form in Detailed Form Advanced Search

Northern Light - + guarantees keyword, - removes keyword. Double quotes for phrase. Both Sources Web Special Collection

METASEARCH ENGINES

AskJeeves - Searches its questions database and Webcrawler, Infoseek, Excite, & AltaVista at once. Just type your question.  Help  check spelling

MetaCrawler - Parallel searches of several search engines. Results are collated. Power Search any all as a phrase

SEARCH GUIDES

Spider's Apprentice : How to Use Web Search Engines

Internet Search Tool Details