Searching the Internet

Search engines are used to find Web sites using key words. They are very powerful computers that spend time cataloguing the contents of Web sites and then letting individuals use those catalogues to find information. Search engines are useful only if you search using the right words. You should try to pick specific words that might be on the Web site you are looking to find. It is helpful to put a phase. If you do, be sure to put it in quotation marks so that the computer knows to look only for that phase and not words in that phase. Below is a list of very popular search engines. Try a few to see which you like best. Remember to fill out your worksheet as you explore the search engines.

Google
Ask Jeeves
Yahoo
Go
Excite
Mama
AltaVista