Searching The Internet

James M Sandbrook

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Internet Searching

The Internet has many search engines, well over a hundred.

Although this may seem an advantage at first it can also be hard for the new Internet user to figure out what search engine to use.

The most popular search engines are Excite, Alta Vista, Netscape Search, Google, Hot Bot, and many more...

Each search engine appears to have its own different search techniques, probably to stand out from the other search engines.

Here are some ways for you to find what you are looking for.

First over a period of time, try all the major search engines to find out which suits you.

Consider visiting the Open Directory Project.

https://dmoz-odp.org/

The Open Directory Project is a large listing of Internet web sites that are organised into subjects.

The Open Directory Project's goal is to produce the most comprehensive directory of the web, by relying on a vast army of volunteer editors.

Currently (June 2000) they have:

1,804,642 web sites - 25,471 editors - 274,621 categories.

These are growing all the time. The Open Directory Project is brought to us by Netscape/Mozilla.

When searching you can use Boolean logic, this is simple and easy to grasp.

If you are looking for a web site about Ships then you would type 'Ships' into the search engine, but if you wanted to find web sites about ships and ship wrecks you could type 'ships and wrecks' or 'ships + wrecks' (without the quotes).

Sadly not all search engines operate the same way and this may not work on all search engines.

Hope this helps.

All the best from

James M Sandbrook.

‎Friday, ‎6 ‎May ‎2005, ‏‎1:07:30 PM.