"It is rare that a single search engine can provide all the answers."

Search Engine Tip: Use More Than One Why? Your search will be more thorough. Search engines use different methods to add Web sites to their databases. Some use Web site titles, while others snatch every word on each document. Search engines use different and constantly changing formulas to determine the ordering of leads in response to your query. Some search engines add new Web sites faster than others. Alta Vista boasts the largest database of documents and returns the most comprehensive results. Excellent for finding obscure facts and phrases. It is considered to be one of the most powerful search engines available. Has good field-search options that allow you to limit your search results by specific criteria. Excite provides concept searching. It is also particularly good on identifying current news articles. InfoSeek Guide handles "Plain-English" queries particularly well. You can also hone your search by doing a second search of just the results returned by your original query. Hotbot offers a number of ways to customize your search to zero in on links that are most relevant. Interface is easy to master. Good for locating multimedia files and to locate Web sites by geography. Yahoo! offers the best, most detailed Web directory, making it a good choice to explore a subject to find out what's available on the Web. Ask Jeeves is a user-friendly search resource. You compose your query as a question and submit. Ask Jeeves searches through five different search engines at once or leads to edited pages that might answer your question. If you mispelled a word or if additional refining of your question need, Jeeves will ask you. Dogpile is a meta search engines that will search several search engines at once as well as newsgroups and other Internet resources. You can choose from among dozens of search engines. To find additional search tools, the Netscape Home Page (click on Internet Search on the browser command menu) and Search.com offer comprehensive links. Search Engine Watch provides indepth information about how the major engines work as well as links to speciality search engines, including an excellent list of children's search engines.

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