SECTION 3: USING SEARCH ENGINES EFFECTIVELY

SEARCH ENGINES

Pick one or two search engines that you like best, and learn them well. We've listed some search engines below.

Print this page as a handy guide.

CONTENTS:

TRUE SEARCH ENGINES

WEB DIRECTORIES

META SEARCH ENGINES

MEDICAL/HEALTH CARE SEARCH TOOLS

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TRUE SEARCH ENGINES

If you want a more COMPREHENSIVE search of everything on a topic, use a True search engine, or use a search engine's "search the Web" feature.

AltaVista®	http://www.altavista.com
Excite®	http://www.excite.com/
GO.com®	http://guide.infoseek.com
Google®	http://www.google.com/
Hotbot ®	http://www.hotbot.com
LookSmart®	http://www.looksmart.com/
Lycos®	http://www.lycos.com
and many others...

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WEB DIRECTORIES

If you want FEWER hits -- just a few Web sites -- use the "Directory" option on these search engines:

AltaVista®	http://www.altavista.com/dir/default
Chubba®	http://dir.whatuseek.com/
DogPile®	http://direct.dogpile.com/d/search/p/dogpile/directory.jhtml
Highway61®	http://www.highway61.com/directory.shtml
Google®	http://www.google.com/dirhp?hl=en&tab=wd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=
Yahoo!®	http://search.yahoo.com/dir
and others...

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META SEARCH ENGINES

If you want to save time and search lots of engines at-once, use a Meta Search Engine:

AskJeeves®	http://www.ask.com/
Beaucoup®	http://www.beaucoup.com/
Chubba ®	http://chubba.whatuseek.com/
Debriefing®	http://www.debriefing.com
Dogpile®	http://www.dogpile.com
FinderSeeker®	http://www.finderseeker.com/
GoGettem.com®	http://www.gogettem.com/
Highway61®	http://www.highway61.com
ixquick®	http://www.ixquick.com
Mamma®	http://www.mamma.com
MetaCrawler®	http://www.metacrawler.com/
MetaEureka®	http://www.metaeureka.com/
ProFusion®	http://www.profusion.com
Search.com®	http://www.search.com
Verio Metasearch®	http://search.verio.net
WebCrawler®	http://www.webcrawler.com/
and others...

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MEDICAL/HEALTH CARE SEARCH TOOLS

Medical/Health care search tools are useful to Web users who do not want to sort through non-medical resources when searching for health care information. Medical/health care search tools often provide indexes or organized lists of resources that you can use instead of doing a general search.

Citeline®	http://www.citeline.com/C1SE/search
CliniWeb International®	http://www.ohsu.edu/cliniweb/search.html
Health on the Net (HON)®	http://www.hon.ch/
Medical Matrix® (fee-based subscription required)	http://www.medmatrix.org/reg/login.asp
MedScape®	http://www.medscape.com/
MedWeb®	http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/

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