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| I know a little about what I am looking for and can use a few key words to help search for more information | | Google is a good site to begin with, since it is one of the largest indexes | | Yahoo Search is another popular general search engine | | MSN (Live Search) provides multiple types of searches | | Quintura is a good discovery search engine with Quintura for Kids a choice for younger children. |
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| I know the exact phrase that I want to search for | Use "double quotes" around the phrase with any of the above search engines |
| I need facts | | Microsoft Encarta includes an online encyclopedia center, dictionary, atlas, and additional resources to answer your questions | | Ask offers many innovative tools to help you get the information you need quickly and easily | | Answers.com allows you to ask a question on about everything | | Factbites is a cross between a search engine and an encyclopedia |
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| I need an overview of a subject. | |
| I need to narrow my search | | Clusty combines search results by grouping similar results together into clusters | | Ask results include a "Narrow Your Search" feature for most searches | | Exalead provides choices on how to narrow your search by using related terms, site types, multimedia, etc. |
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| I like to see thumbnails of pages listed in my results | | Ask uses binoculars to view thumbnails of result pages | | Exalead shows a preview page for all results automatically |
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| I want to do an all-inclusive (metasearch) across many search engines | | Ixquick search results include a universal power search relying on Boolean logic, phrases, wildcards, and field searches | | Pandia collects and sorts the hits, takes out duplicates, and presents the end result in a simple format. | | Metacrawler searches the top search engines, including Google, Yahoo Search, MSN Search, Ask, and more |
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| I am not sure how to spell what I'm looking for | | Exalead Advanced search allows you to search for approximate spelling or phonetic spelling | | The Reverse Dictionary suggest words and phrases that match your searched concept | | Dictionary.com suggest correct spellings |
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| I like to see a visual representation for my search results | | Kartoo is a meta search engine which preents its results on a map | | WebBrain lets you search the Web visually, so you can explore a dynamic picture of related information, instead of searching through long lists of text. | | Quintura provides a cloud that you can navigate and easily refine in order to find relevant information faster and more easily |
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| I am looking for different file formats | | Google Advanced search looks for .pdf .ps .doc .xls .ppt .rtf | | Yahoo Advanced search looks for .xml .pdf .xls .ppt .doc .txt |
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| I need to find information that is trustworthy | |
| I want to search websites that are usually inaccessbile to traditional search engines | | Turbo10 searches over 800 search engines previously not indexed by traditional search engines | | CompletePlanet is a comprehensive listing of documents that cannot be indexed by traditional search engines | | OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources from 947 contributors |
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| I am looking for images | | Google Images is one of the most comprehensive image search engines on the web. | | Yahoo Search is anohter major image search engine |
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| I am looking for Weblogs | | Technorati is the recognized authority on what's happening on the World Live Web | | Google Blog helps find blogs on your favorite topics |
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| I need to find moving images | | Yahoo! Video searches for AVI. MPEG, Quicktime, Real, Windows Media and Flash video | | Google Video includes video from YouTube, Google Video, and other third-party sites | | YouTube is the most well known of these services, recently bought by Google |
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| I need to find a topic | | Clusty results include clusters that can be used to help identify topics | | Google Directory inlcudes a subject tree that can assist with identifying topics |
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| I need to find related topics | | Grokker reports results in both an outlne and map view that enable the searcher to locate related information | | Clutsy groups search results into folder topics that help discover additional topics related to your original search |
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| I need help from experts | | Ask A Librarian provides basic research assistance related to a variety of subject | | All Experts offers volunteers to answer a broad area of questions via email for free |
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| I need primary sources | | American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to a variety of resources in a many different formats that document the American experience. | | Library and Archival features access to onlne exhibitions that have been created by libraries, archives, and historical societies, and well as to museum online exhibitions. |
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