Search the Web

Alta Vista

Use to do a pinpoint search when your terms are narrow. Best for scientific information on the Internet

Ask Jeeves

Ask a question and this will link you to sites where your answer might be found.

Excite

Will provide a small number of relevant hits and an idea of what's in the document before linking

HotBot

Can specify long or short description of resulting links. Good for information on a proper name.

Northern Light

Groups results into folders of related hits to help you narrow your query.

Webcrawler

Good for quality, evaluated sites that have reviews and ratings when you have a limited time to search. No annotations.

Yahoo

Organizes information as "subject trees" from general to specific. Includes only sites it has chosen, therefore only a small part of internet.

Yahooligans

Kid's safe sites from the very popular Yahoo. Good for helping to narrow a broad topic.

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