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Google's index includes links to millions of web pages; great for educational research. |
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Google's university search of Valdosta State University & links to many other universities. |
| Bing |
Latest Search Engine with lots of extras for searching |
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One of most popular engines in use. This search engine is from the Digital Equipment Corporation. |
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Joined forces with AltaVista to give wider search areas. |
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A great web guide for kids. |
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A comprehensive Internet catalog which searches for words and subjects. |
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One of the most sophisticated search engine available. |
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Gives results with the percentage of frequency of the words searched. |
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Strange name, but a good search engine. |
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Well organized search engine with 500 guides to help in your search. |
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Engines & Directories |
*List of search engines to help find useful resource materials. |
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*Provides a directory of thousands of specialty search engines, daily news about search engines and the search engine industry. |
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Better Searching |
*Seven easy steps to improve your searching with the search engine, AltaVista, developed by Bernie Dodge. |
| Project Gutenberg | Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free electronic books. |
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Great engine to find people on the Web. |
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Search for graves of famous people and ancestors. |
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Gives many choices to narrow your search, also can check if you want page to include image, video, audio, or Shockwave. |
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Ixquick is a new metasearch engine |
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Good for specialty searches with more than 100 different ways to search the Web. |
| eBay | eBay is an online market place with more than 10 million
items. |
| MedicineNet.Com |
MedicineNet provides reliable doctor produced health and medical information. |
| Health Encyclopedia | Healthopedia, a medical and health comsumer information resource containing comprehensive and unbiased information 1,500 health topics, 70 focussed health centers, and more than 11,000 drugs and medications. |
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A scholarly Internet resource developed by the University of California. |
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The AccuWeather has a 15 day forecast for local and a 5 day forecast for international cities. |
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The
Weather Channel has the latest forecasts with great
maps and satellite images. You can search for the weather for your hometown or for traveling around the world. |
| National Hurricane Center National
Weather Service |
Hurricane weather information from the
National Weather Service |
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Weather Information |
The Universitiy of Michigan at Ann Arbor states that it has the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of weather data on the Web. |
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Great site for maps & directions |
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Need a map or directions for a trip, see MapQuest |
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Free Translations to English from Spanish, French, German, Italian, & Portuguese, also translates websites, |
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An informative engine where you can enter the name of a stock and it gives you its values from the stock market. |
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ABC News CBS News MSNBC News |
Searching for Today's News |
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Up to the Minute Sports News |
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Listen on-line to WFSU FM Radio |
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Find out the latest news in technology. |
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Information Technology |
Gives brief updates of technology news by The Chronicle of Higher Education. |
Quick Tips For Searching The Internet
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| Use a comma to separate several names that are linked together. |
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| Capitalize the first letter of each word when searching for a proper name of a person or company. |
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| Add a plus sign when you want to find a document that must have those two or more words in it or a minus sign to avoid certain word combinations. |
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| If you want to find an image place a colon between the word image and the image topic. |
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| Use and asterisk to find all combinations of a word or word fragment. The example edu* will locate web sites that contain education, educational, educator, and so on. |
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 Judd's Home Page |
 djudd@valdosta.edu |
 "How To Pages" Help for Making Web Pages |