| Name |
Type |
Description |
| Yahoo |
Search Engine |
- A Catalogue of Topics
- Updated daily
- Some reviews available
|
| Alta Vista |
Search Engine |
- The largest database of pages
- Boolean based advanced search.
- Graphic database
|
| Excite |
Search Engine |
- Concept based single search engine
- Looks for clusters of words together
- Returns hits on documents 'about' the subject
|
| Infoseek |
Search Engine |
- Keyword based search engine
- Has extensive graphic database
|
| Hotbot |
Search Engine |
- Fast
- Excellent help section
- Tends to give fewer, but more relevant hits
|
| Envirofacts |
Search Tool for EPA Databases |
- Storehouse of environmental data
|
| SavySearch |
Meta Search Engine |
- 23 individual search engines
- Initially searches 5 selected search engines
- Ranks according to relevancy with short
abstract
- Keyword searching and phrases accepted.
|
| Dogpile |
Meta Search Engine |
- Searches 3 search engines at a time
- Produces results quickly(even 0 matches)
- Encase keywords in "quotes"
|
| Mamma |
Meta Search Engine |
- Searches 10 sites at a time
- Formats syntax required by individual engine
- Results grouped by relevance and source
- Keyword searching works best
|
| Google |
Search Engine |
- Searches its own databank
- User friendly
- Only produces sites that match all of the terms
- Each word highlighted
|
| NorthernLight |
Search Engine |
- Searches its own databank, as well as a million
articles from over 5,400 journals, books newspapers, newswires
- Full text is available for a fee($2.95-$4.00)
- You can limit search to WWW only
- Categorizes results in folders
- Supports natural language: what is capital
of Uganda? -Or- can use a string of keywords:immunization history
child
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