SearchingtheWeb

=Searching the Web=

Web Search Strategies in Plain English
media type="custom" key="5091737" Click on the arrow to play this video from Teacher Tube and get ideas for how to be an effective and efficient Web surfer.

Web-based Resources for Searching and Researching
Please add additional resources for searching and researching in alphabetical order in the appropriate category below:

Boolean Logic

 * **Bare Bones Boolean Logic** - []
 * **Boolean Logic Tutorial** - []
 * **How Boolean Logic Works** - []

The Hidden Web

 * **Jane Cook's Delicious Bundle of Hidden Web Sites** - []

Search Engines
Click on this link to go to a Search Engines page on this Wiki.
 * How to Choose a Search Engine** - Click on this link to go to a tutorial a site maintained by Laura B. Cohen, a former academic librarian at the University of Albany SUNY. It includes tables with comparisons of a variety of different search engines and which are best for specific purposes: []

**//Some Popular Search Engines//**

 * **Ask** (formerly Ask Jeeves) - []
 * **Ask Jeeves for Kids** - []
 * **Bing -** []
 * **Google** - [|http://www.google.com]
 * **Lycos** - []
 * **Yahoo** - []
 * **Yahoo Kids** (formerly Yahooligans) - []

//**Metacrawlers**// Metacrawlers are combined search engines that search multiple search engines at the same time.

 * **Dogpile** - []
 * **Metacrawlers** - []
 * **Webcrawler** - []