Everything You Wanted to Learn/Know About the Internet and Were Afraid to Ask
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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 World Wide Web: Overview
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/558/01/
"The World Wide Web is a superb resource, but it doesn't contain all the information that you can find at a library or through library online resources. Don't expect to limit your search to what is on the Internet, and don't expect search engines to find everything that is on the Web."

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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