1. Searching with Search Engines ATS 2004 Menchaca

2. Search Engines Collect Spiders Spiders Bots Bots Humans Humans

3. Keyword Searches Boolean Logic Boolean Logic And, or, not And, or, not Phrases and parentheses Phrases and parentheses Remove frames Remove frames Altavista http://www.av.com Infoseek http://www.infoseek.com Route 6-16 http://www.route616.com

4. Natural Language Searches Syntax Syntax Question Question Advanced features Advanced features Ask Jeeves http://www.aj.com Electric Monk http://www.electricmonk.com Ask Jeeves for Kids http://www.ajkids.com

5. Subject Guide Searches Categorization Categorization Intense human resources Intense human resources Some evaluation (appropriateness but not content) Some evaluation (appropriateness but not content) Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com Look Smart http://www.looksmart.com Yahooligans http://www.yahooligans.com Kids Click! http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/kidsclick

6. Meta Searches Searches search engines Searches search engines Advanced features hit and miss Advanced features hit and miss Large number of ‘hits’ Large number of ‘hits’ Hotbot http://www.hotbot.com Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com Yahooligans http://www.familyfriendlysearch.com

7. Important Features Google & AOL Images Google & AOL Images Advanced capabilities Advanced capabilities References (dictionaries, thesaurus, etc.) References (dictionaries, thesaurus, etc.) Evaluated web sites (kidsclick) Evaluated web sites (kidsclick) Google http://www.google.com/imghp AOL http://search.aol.com Ask Jeeves for Kids http://www.ajkids.com KidsClick! http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/kidsclick