Best Search Tools

S U B J E C T   D I R E C T O R I E S   (Selected Resources)
Librarians' Index to the Internet    Help ALL Subject Title Description	Yahoo! - If no matching Categories or Sites found, search will go to its Inktomi database.    Help

M E T A S E A R C H   E N G I N E S   (Search Multiple Engines at Once)
MetaCrawler - Searches AltaVista, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, WebCrawler, & Yahoo at once. Search the Web Newsgrps Stocks CompProds Files   any all phrase	Inference Find - Searches AltaVista, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, WebCrawler & Yahoo at once. Maximum wait per engine: 1 5 7 10 30 seconds
AskJeeves - Searches its questions database and Webcrawler, Infoseek, Excite, & AltaVista at once. Just type your question.  A few example questions --> How much is Bill Gates worth today? Where can I find current information on HMOs? What is the tallest building in the world? How does a car's electrical system work? Where can I find sample business plans? How can I find information about biomes? What are the job opportunities for librarians?     Help  check spelling

S E A R C H   E N G I N E S   (Comprehensive Databases)

Google - Use quotes with phrases, + only to include stop words (automatically ANDs), - to exclude e.g., "pig +in +a poke"     Help AltaVista - Quotes w/phrases, + to require, - to exclude. Web Pages   Images   Video   Audio in any language Chinese Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Spanish Swedish     Help    [Advanced Search] Infoseek - Quotes w/phrases, + to require, - to exclude.  Web   News  Companies  Usenet Help     [Advanced Search]

Northern Light - Quotes w/phrases, + to require, - to exclude. Both Sources Web Special Collection Help   [Power Search] HotBot - Quotes with phrases, + to require, - to exclude. Search for all the words any of the words exact phrase the page title the person links to this URL Boolean search Help    [Advanced Search] Excite - Quotes with phrases, + to require, - to exclude. Boolean AND, AND NOT, OR. Help   [Advanced Search]

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