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Search Engines

 
Google is a search engine owned by Google, Inc. The largest search engine on 
the web, Google indexes a portion of the total amount of webpages on the 
web. 
Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various 
services.
http://www.Google.com

 
 
Full text of web pages (Also huge), .pdf, .ps, flash, and others. Plus: News 
(7000 sources), Images, Maps, People, Local, Travel, Shopping, Video, Audio, 
Podcasts, and more.
http://www.YahooSearch.com

 
 
Searches Google, Yahoo, Ask, MSN, About.com, and more. Selection varies. 
Sponsored listings interfiled with other results, but identified 
as "Sponsored by" under result.
http://www.Dogpile.com

 
 
Guides offer practical advice and solutions for every day life.Owned by The 
New York Times Company.
http://www.About.com

 
 
A one-stop site for all things Internet including news, weather, sports, 
reference, encyclopedia (50 areas), facts on file, FAQs, tutorials, search 
engines, ...
http://www.refdesk.com/

 
 
Full text of web pages (over 2 billion). Excellent ranking! But where's 
Jeeves?
http://www.ask.com

 
 
Google Scholar 
Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and 
sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.
http://www.scholar.google.com

 
 
Answers.com - the ultimate answer engine, with quick accurate dictionary, 
thesaurus, encyclopedia, bios, tech terms, news, sports, weather, and much 
more.
http://www.Answers.com

 
 
AltaVista provides the most comprehensive search experience on the Web!
AltaVista Babel Fish provides the online text and web page language 
translation!
http://www.altavista.com

 
 
The POWERLibrary is offered as a service of Pennsylvania's public libraries, 
school libraries, and the State Library. The POWER Library allows you FREE 
access to thousands of full text periodical articles, newspapers, a major 
encyclopedia, plus photographs, pictures, charts, maps, reference materials 
for young people and more. You will find materials of interest in most 
subject areas for all age groups from young children to adults.
http://www.powerlibrary.info

 

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