Everything You Wanted to Learn/Know About the Internet and Were Afraid to Ask
Searching Information


Checkmark The Amazing Internet Guide
http://www.sunstorm.com/amazing/
The Amazing Internet Guide is a wonderful site that contains information on over 20 search tools and provides subscription and key techniques needed for each tool.

Checkmark Searching the Internet Tutorial
http://www.tesl.iastate.edu/510/F02/DJJK_WBTU/Dan's%20WBTU%20Files/webtutorial.htm
Finding information on the Internet can be challenging if you are not aware of a few helpful strategies. These strategies include searching the Internet using metasearch engines, using Boolean search modifiers, and identifying credibility once you have found a site.

Checkmark A Helpful Guide to Search Engines
http://www.monash.com/spidap.html#ratings
The Spider's Apprentice web site contains tips on searching for AltaVista, Infoseek, Excite, Webcrawler, Lycos, Hotbot, and Yahoo. This site also rates each of these search tools listed and provides a page with FAQ's dealing with search engines and subject directories.


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