Search Engines

Search Engines

Genealogical Society of Okeechobee


You can search right here, directly on Lycos!


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An Internet Search Engine Directory:

To get a complete description of the logic systems for several search engines.
http://www.albany.edu/library/internet/syntax.html

The most popular directory engine:
http://www.yahoo.com/

 

Another directory:
The Argus Clearinghouse - http://www.clearinghouse.net/

BUBL Link
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/
This significant collection is a UK funded project of carefully selected and annotated resources from the University of Strathclyde Library in Glasgow, Scotland.

INFOMINE:
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
a large collection of scholarly Internet resources collectively maintained by libraries of the University of California and offering many interesting search and retrieval options.

Librarians' Index to the Internet
http://www.lii.org/
a well-organized, selective, and continually updated collection maintained by a large number of indexers in California, and may be thought of as "the thinking person's Yahoo"

The WWW Virtual Library
http://www.vlib.org/
This collection was the first subject directory on the Web, and boasts a number of comprehensive, well-annotated subject collections maintained by experts around the world.

Ask Jeeves
- http://www.ask.com/
(plain english query)

Infoseek: http://infoseek.go.com/

AltaVista - http://www.altavista.com/

HotBot - http://hotbot.lycos.com

Excite - http://www.excite.com/

Lycos - http://www.lycos.com/

MetaCrawler - http://www.metacrawler.com/

C4 http://www.c4.com/

INFERENCE FIND http://www.infind.com/

PROFUSION http://www.profusion.com/


Quick Tip!
Best Bet Search Syntax
Place the plus sign ( + ) in front of all words you wish to retrieve
+hibernation +bears
Place a phrase within quotations
"freedom of the press"
Putting it all together: +"drug policy" +"United States"


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