Electronic Searches: Web Search Engines

When you use a Web search engine, you obtain information about Web pages and other forms of information on the Internet, including PDF files, PowerPoint files, Word files, newsgroup posts, Blogs, and chat rooms. Web search engines keep track of these sources by locating documents on Web sites and entering them in a searchable database. Leading Web search engines include:

Google http://www.google.com

AllTheWeb http://www.alltheweb.com

AltaVista http://www.altavista.com

Ask Jeeves http://www.ask.com

Excite http://www.excite.com

Gigablast http://www.gigablast.com

MSN Search http://search.msn.com

Teoma http://www.teoma.com

WiseNut http://www.wisenut.com

Yahoo! http://www.yahoo.com