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Northern Light is
both a massive search engine and a fee-based database which offers the full text of more
than 4,500 periodicals, scholarly journals, and news wires. This is one of the best sites
on the web for deep searches and consistently returns high quality sites. The order in
which sites are listed is based on how well they match your exact search term and how
frequent the search term appears in the document. This method seems to make sure the most
relevant sites rise to the top. Northern Lights is organized in such a way that the novice
and pro will find what they're looking for without much difficulty. www.northernlight.com Top of page |
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A great search
engine for the intermediate to experienced user and one of the largest search engines with
over 250 million pages. Alta Vista's list of search results offer more information than
anyone else. Each return provides data such as URL (this may sound obvious but many search
sites do not provide the URL), date of last modification, page size and even a translation
option. Alta-Vista also has a search function dedicated to audio clips, images and video
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Advanced search
capabilities, a large Web index, and awesome graphical query-building aids make HotBot a
valuable tool for both experienced and novice searchers. Recently it has added a feature
that provides a helpful list of the ten most-visited sites based on query. This can sure
get your search off on the right foot. HotBot also offers a variety of filtering options.
Your search can be enhanced by utilizing these various options from a collection of drop
down boxes. HotBot has also hooked up with a few other sites such as CDNow, TalkCity and
Barnes & Noble where they will run a search based on your original query term.
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GoTo has tossed out
all the extra frippery and offers an extensive category listings and search
capabilities. GoTo.com is unique in that it enables companies to "bid" on search terms,
which will push their listings to the top of the results screen. A search for a popular
topic (or a particularly commercial one) will show which companies are willing to shell
out the bucks to get your attention. A very clean and simple to use site with no
overwhelming graphics or extraneous options. But your search results can sometimes be hit
and miss, foreign languages, vague references to query term and even some seemingly random
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Developed at
Stanford University, Google!'s popularity is growing in leaps and bounds with
professionals and novices alike. Google has some very unique features. For example, their
GoogleScout automatically scouts the web for pages that are related to the search result
you select. With PageRank, Google! takes a stab at knowing what you would like to see
first. In fact it's so confident about knowing what its searchers will want to see that it
includes an "I'm feeling lucky" button that retrieves Google!'s top picks for
your search and sends you right to the first site. www.google.com Top of page |
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Search results only contain a URL and brief description and don't appear to
be in any particular order. www.alltheweb.com
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