Mapping Your Route on the Information Superhighway

Sister Kathleen Burns, IHM

Using Search Engines

• Tyner, R. (1997). Sink or Swim: Internet Search Tools & Techniques (v. 2.0). Kelowna, B.C.: Okanagan University College. [On-line] Available: http://bubl.ac.uk/searches/docs/tyner/
  • Excite

    Focus: Set up your personal newspaper/newsclipping service

  • Yahoo

    Focus: Internet directory -- Good for well-focused searches or use of categories

  • Webcrawler

    Focus: Index created by robots -- Good for quick, well focused searching

  • Dog Pile

    Focus: Meta-search engine -- Good when you are having difficulty finding information

  • Altavista

    Focus: Refining your search -- Good when you find too much information

  • Inference Find

    Focus: Meta-search engine that collates and sorts -- Good for sorting through extraneous information

Comments to Sr. Kathleen Burns, IHM: skb@ac.marywood.edu

Last update Tuesday, October 13, 1998
Copyright © 1998 by Sr. Kathleen Burns. All rights reserved.