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Internet subject guides - our collection of links to Librarian-evaluated Internet subject guides.

Hints and "how-to"

• Barebones 101: Basic Web Search Tutorial - from the University of South Carolina/Beaufort Library
• How to Choose the Search Tools or
  Databases You Need - from UC-Berkeley
• Finding Information on the Internet Tutorial - ditto
• How to Search the Web - from Palomar College

Web search engines and indexes

• Altavista
• Excite
• Google - a favorite, started as a research project at Stanford University.
• HotBot
• Metacrawler - combines and searches 6 major search engines for a 'meta-search.'
• Northern Light
• Search.com - a meta-search utility developed and maintained by C/NET.  
• Yahoo! - a hierarchical subject index, combined with searching capabilities.

Last updated 8/05/2003