Searching the Internet - Millennium Schools



Searching the Internet

Popular search engines - Many search engines have similar features but their search mechanisms work in slightly different ways. It is beneficial to try more than one search engine if you are having difficulty locating your required information.

|Google |A very popular search engine that also includes dedicated products for searching news, images, maps, scholarly research papers. |

|Yahoo! |Yahoo! an early search engine originally designed as a searchable directory. It now provides news and many social networking features on |

| |its homepage. |

|Live Search |Formerly known as MSN, Live Search is very similar to Google in look and feel. |

|AOL |AOL is powered by Google and therefore has a very similar look and feel. AOL is the largest advertising-supported web company in the USA.|

|AltaVista |Amongst its features on AltaVista you have the option of searching for Web pages, images, video, or audio. If you are looking for a |

| |picture of an animal or a famous person for a lesson, visit this site and type a name in the box, mark the circle labelled images, and |

| |click on search. A selection of picture files will be displayed. |

|Lycos |The more narrow and focused your Lycos search, the better the results will be. To improve the accuracy of your searches, use quotation |

| |marks around the names of individuals or exact phrases you seek. |

|Ask |Formerly known as Ask Jeeves, Ask is a natural language search engine that allows users to pose full questions and phrases. |

|Web Wombat |One of Australia's oldest search engines. |

Meta search engines - Meta search engines combine two or more search engines and enable you to search them simultaneously.

|Jux2 |Jux2 simultaneously searches Google, Yahoo and Live Search and also allows you to compare the results of each engine. |

|PolyCola |Formerly known as GahooYoogle, PolyCola allows you to search any two major search engines at the same time, and see the |

| |results from each engine in a split screen. |

|Dogpile |One of the first meta search engines, Dogpile searches four top search engines simultaneously and provides one set of |

| |combined results that covers all engines. |

|Mamma |Mamma searches a range of lesser known search engines and directories such as EntireWeb, Open Directory and to|

| |retrieve results that are not always found in the large search engines. |

|Clusty |Presents a group of similar topics that are related to the original query. The aim of this search engine technique is to|

| |organize numerous search results into several meaningful categories (clusters). |

|KartOO |KartOO is a visual meta search engine which displays results in a clustered map. This style allows you to locate |

| |relevant web pages and find related topics by clicking on pages displayed in the results map. |

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