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Search Tools: All the popular search engines like AltaVista, HotBot, and Yahoo. Meta Search tools for searching more than one search engine at a time. Search Topics: Answers to very specific questions. Get your local weather forecast, TV Listings, and much more! Help & Tips: Guides to constructing better searches. Detailed information on using FINDSPOT. Links to other valuable resources for the web searcher.

Fetch information effortlessly with Dogpile's fast, efficient metasearch. Using the search keywords or phrases you enter, Dogpile retrieves the greatest number of relevant results that match your query. With Dogpile, you have access to not just one search engine, but many of the Web's most popular search tools. Search for Content, Images, News, etc.To enter a query into Google, just type in a few descriptive words and hit the 'enter' key (or click on the Google Search button) for a list of relevant web pages. Since Google only returns web pages that contain all the words in your query, refining or narrowing your search is as simple as adding more words to the search terms you have already entered.

Just enter words related to what you want and chances are good that useful results will go to the top of the list of matches.  AltaVista checks the words you enter against a massive (half-million entry) phrase dictionary to determine which words go together naturally, and automatically treats them as phrases.

Galaxy is the original searchable Internet directory. Our mission is to provide contextually relevant information by integrating state-of-the-art technology with the human touch.
Direct Search- Material "hidden" from the general search tools often reside here, on the "Invisible Web".  Invisible Web- Also an "invisible web" site created by the makers of the BullsEye family of search products.

 

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