Internet Search There's nothing like the Internet when you want millions of hits on any topic in the world. Consult our librarians if you have questions about the validity of a site.
Google Uses a system for ranking web pages from billions of its indexed URLs. Google also has a spell-checker, calculator, maps, travel information and much more. http://www.google.com
Yahoo Users can browse and search subject categories and includes up-to-the-minute sports scores, weather, headlines, maps, yellow pages and stock quotes. http://www.yahoo.com
AltaVista Offers compact or detailed searches, a large database, powerful search features, International coverage, interfaces, and foreign language handling. http://www.altavista.com
Librarians' Index to the Internet Designed specifically for public library users. Librarians annotate and evaluate listings for their information potential. http://lii.org/
Dogpile Dogpile searches four search engines at a time: Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask. http://www.dogpile.com
Metacrawler Searches the best results from the combined pool of the world's leading search engines. http://www.metacrawler.com
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