Search
Engines
If
you need to find something on the World Wide Web and you don't know
where to look, chances are you'll never find it. Someone once said "If
you were to stack up all of the individual web pages on the Internet,
right up on top of one another, there'd be so many that the stack would
go from the Earth to the Moon and back, eighteen times!" This is
why there are search engines. These are special sites on the WWW that
are designed to search for web pages based on criteria that you give
them. Things like: names, places, words, strings ("books by Stephen
King"), etc. These are what are known as 'keywords'. The search
engine will give you a list of all corresponding matches. Sounds great,
right? It is, except that most search engines don't search all, or even
most of the WWW. That's why if you don't find what you're looking for
initially, just go and try another site -- different search engines
index web pages based on different criteria. What you don't find listed
at one, you may find in another.
Here's
a list of some popular search engines:
-
- Yahoo!
- Metacrawler
- Ask
Jeeves
- Ask
Jeeves for Kids
- Snap
- HotBot
- Dogpile
- Infoseek
(GO Network)
- Lycos
- Excite
- Search.com