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Where do I find it? Created by Connie CampbellConnie Campbell

Directories or Search Engines Directories … Maintained by humans General or Subject Related Yahoo Yahoo …General Elementary Educational Internet Projects Elementary Educational Internet Projects …Subject Related Search Engines … Maintained by computer program that searches the web and collects data More inclusive than directory Keyword searchable

Identify concepts within your topic Identify terms related to those concepts Consider synonyms and variations of those terms

Size of the database Search features Result list features Online help screens

Size: 31 million URL’s Simple and advanced searches (Boolean and truncation)Booleantruncation Result ranked by relevancy Online instructions Altavista

Boolean and truncation)Booleantruncation Result ranked by relevancy Online instructions Altavista

Boolean (boo le an) Searching allows you to help refine your search so you can get better results using three basic operators: AND, OR, and NOT.

Science Lesson Plans & Returns pages with both terms.

Science Lesson Plans or Returns pages with either terms.

Science Lesson Plans not Returns pages with one term but not the other.

Truncation (trun ka shun) searching allows you to help refine your search using the wildcard * symbol. It provides you t he ability to enter part of a word to make sure you retrieve documents that contain all parts of that word. Example: teach* will yield teach, teacher, teaching

Size: 50 million URL’s Only Simple options at first screen Result ranked by relevancy Allows Boolean searches Excite

Allows searching for Sounds, Pictures, the Top 5% (their opinion), books, and personal homepages. Result ranked by 10, 15, 20, 30 or 40 per page. Provides Boolean searches Lycos

Size: 50 million URL’s Provides use of double quotations ("-") around words that must be searched together or capitalize to find a phrase. Refines a search with a "Search only these results" option. Infoseek

Size: 50 million URL’s Provides for keyword search by "all the words", "any of the words", "exact phrase", "the person", "links to this URL" and "Boolean expression". Refines advanced queries, like "Date" - which limits your search to "last week", "last 2 weeks, "last month”. HotBot

Parallel Web Search Engines are search engines that do not maintain their own database, but search other search engines to bring results.

Dogpile Mamma Ask Jeeves Metacrawler All 4 One

These search engines are designed especially for children: Yahooligans Ask Jeeves for Kids

Translate Speech Alta Vista Translator bin/translate?

Software Search Engines Filez Cnet Softseek Shareware

Images and Sounds Search Engines Lycos Multimedia select pictures or sounds Filez Selection made at drop down screen Search: Windows-All Graphics Wav

Visit Dave’s Virtual LibraryDave’s Virtual Library with links to an endless variety of search engines and online reference tools.