Using Search Engines



Google: http://www.google.com

The Basics of Google Search: http://www.google.com/help/basics.html
Google Images: Go to Google and click on Images.

Other Popular Search Engines:

AltaVista: http://www.altavista.com
HotBot: http://hotbot.lycos.com
Infoseek: http://infoseek.com
Lycos: http://www.lycos.com
WebCrawler: http://www.webcrawler.com
Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com
Foreign Language Internet Search Engines: http://www.bizforms.com/search.htm

How to Search:

Seven Steps toward Better Searching: http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/sevensteps2001.html
Web Searching Tips: http://searchenginewatch.com/facts/index.html
InfoPeople Search Tools Chart: http://www.infopeople.org/search/chart.html

Interesting Search Engines:

iBoogie metasearch engine: http://iboogie.com/
KartOO (a visual, multilingual search engine): http://www.kartoo.com/

Robert Henderson Language Media Center, University of Pittsburgh
http://www.polyglot.pitt.edu/workshops/techspring06/search.html
Last revised: March 24, 2006