| A Quick Guide to Search Engines
This material was compiled at Heartland Area Education Agency 11, Johnston, Iowa 50131-1603 by Susan Schrader. Originally published © January 1997 in Internet Brief NOTES. Reproduced with permission. | |
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| Information Need | Search Engine(s) |
| Case Sensitive Search | InfoSeek, Alta Vista, Hot Bot, Yahoo |
| Cities/Travel | Lycos, Yahoo, Excite, Webcrawler, InfoSeek, Magellan |
| Columnists | Open Text |
| Date Search | Hot Bot, Alta Vista |
| E-Mail Addresses | Lycos, InfoSeek, Yahoo, Open Text, Excite |
| Entertainment | Beaucoup, InfoSeek, Magellan |
| Evaluated WWW Sites | Magellan, Webcrawler, Lycos |
| Full-text indexing | Alta Vista, Open Text |
| Maps | Lycos, InfoSeek, Excite, Webcrawler |
| Multiple Search Engines | Beaucoup, SavvySearch, All-In-One |
| Person Search | Lycos, Yahoo, Excite, Hot Bot |
| Phrase Searching | InfoSeek, Alta Vista, Hot Bot |
| Pictures/Sounds | Lycos, Hot Bot |
| Plain English Queries | InfoSeek, Alta Vista, Excite, Hot Bot, Lycos |
| Reviews (movies/books) | Excite, Magellan, Beaucoup, InfoSeek |
| Sports | InfoSeek, Yahoo, Excite, Beaucoup, Webcrawler, Magellan |
| Stocks | Lycos, InfoSeek, Yahoo, Excite |
| Subject Tree/Directory | Lycos, InfoSeek, Yahoo, Excite, Beaucoup, Magellan, Webcrawler, Yahooligans |
| Summaries | Webcrawler, Open Text, Alta Vista, Lycos |
| Top 5% Internet | Lycos |
| Top News Stories | Lycos, InfoSeek, Yahoo, Open Text, Excite, All-In-One, Magellan |
| Weather | Excite, Yahoo, All-In-One |