Web Search Tools

       
      Tutorials

• Finding Information on the Internet : A Tutorial
  This excellent tutorial was created by the Teaching Library at U.C. Berkeley. Learn how to use search engines and directories and how to evaluate web resources.
• Google Guide
  An online interactive tutorial and reference for experienced users, novices, and everyone in between. Explains in detail Google's capabilities and services.
• Internet Tutorials
  A clear and simple introduction to the web and research techniques and sources.

• Google
  The world's largest search engine with well over 27 billion web pages indexed. Returns web pages on the basis of relevance to the search terms and their "popularity" with other web pages.
• Yahoo!
  A very large search engine with over 20 billion indexed web pages. Also a portal to the many facets of the World Wide Web: shop, read news or your horoscope, get email, play games, research a trip, and much more.
• Ask
  A unique search engine that provides subject specific search results.
• Clusty
  Uses several search engines at once, combines the results and returns them grouped together into clusters by topic.

• Internet Archive Wayback Machine
  A San Francisco based Internet library that archives web pages and historical collections that exist in digital format. In conjunction with the International School of information Science (the library of Alexandria, Egypt) the Internet Archive indexes over 85 billion web pages from 1996 to the present.
• Search Engine Watch
  Provides tips and information about searching the web, analysis of the search engine industry and help to site owners trying to improve their ability to be found in search engines.