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SEARCH
ENGINE
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OTHER VERSIONS
& INSTRUCTIONS
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AltaVista
www.altavista.com
www.altavista.com/web/adv
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- Estimated 600 million
Web pages and other files.
- Generally the best
search functionality.
- Advanced Search
offers full Boolean searching support.
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AllTheWeb
(aka FastSearch)
www.alltheweb.com
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- Billions Web pages
and other files.
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Google
www.google.com
www.google.com/advanced_search
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- Claims billions of
indexed Internet/Web pages. This is questionable, as
the about half of those pages are reported to be only
partially downloaded or indexed.
- Use the Advanced
Search for more sophisticated searching.
- Ranks results by
links to and from it by other "quality" Web
pages.
- Also has hundreds of
millions of newsgroup messages and images in separate
databases.
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Northern
Light Research
www.nlresearch.com
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- About 600 million Web
pages and other files.
- Organizes results
into folders.
- Can simultaneously
search over 7,100 full-text publications with over 25
million articles (these are licensed from other
database producers), but you must pay to see the
full-text.
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OpenFind
www.openfind.com
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- Newer search engine
out of Taiwan.
- Claims billions of
indexed Web pages.
- Large portion of Web
pages indexed are in Chinese, but a search may be
limited to English.
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Teoma
www.teoma.com
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- New, small
database.
- Divides retrieved web
pages into folder categories.
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WiseNut
www.wisenut.com
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- Claims over 1.4
billion Web pages and files.
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