AltaVista- One of the largest search engines on the web, AltaVista is a favorite of
serious researchers because of its comprehensive coverage and its wide range of power
searching commands. It also offers a simple search mode for basic users.
- Ask Jeeves Inc.
- This "natural language" search engine lets you search by asking questions on subjects of
every kind.
- Excite
- Excite is a very popular medium-sized index. It is very fast and often integrates
non-web material such as company information and sports scores into its results.
- Google
- One of the newer search engines, Google uses the number of links to a site
in ranking its relevancy. It uses an automatic Boolean AND between words and allows the use
of a - sign to perform a NOT function. The + can be used but is only useful for forcing a
search on a stop word since AND is the default operation.
- Hotbot
- Another favorite of researchers because of its large index and explicite Boolean search
features, HotBot's advanced search lets you specify date, domain, varying page depth, and even
whether a page contains certain types of media.
- Lycos
- One of the smaller Web page databases, Lycos offers two levels of searching.
Its advanced search features allow proximity, Boolean, and field searching. This is
a good place to search for sounds and pictures.
- Yahoo!
- Yahoo, one of the most popular search services, has a reputation for helping people find
information easily. And, if you don't like Yahoo's results, just click on one of the
other search engines at the bottom of the page to have it perform the same search
without retyping.
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