Student Search Tools
See also:
Google
Google, a bare-bones search engine with a front page largely devoid of anything adverts, much text, flashy graphics, even a plurality of search boxes first appeared as the result of a research project in early 1998. Google is a relatively new search engine yet already consistently voted the allround best. Simple to use and highly effective.
Google Scholar
Google has unveiled a test version of their new search engine aimed specifically at academic material.
Google Scholar searches only research publications ranking the most pertinent articles at the top of its searches. This is a superb development - try it out.
Yahoo
Yahoo is one of the more popular of the search engines located on the Netscape search page. Yahoo is a searchable, browsable, database of information the Internet with access to over 20,000 web resources. Yahoo was developed by David Filo and Jerry Yang, it started out as a way for these two people to keep track
of their personal interests on the Internet, but soon grew into the larger and very popular search engine we know today.
Excite
Excite is the newest addition to the Netscape search page. It differs slightly from some other search engines in that it will allow you to search either by keyword, or by concept (that is, it will find pages which have the same central ideas to what you are searching. Excite also allows you to choose where you search, which may vary from the WWW to Usenet Newsgroups.
Lycos
Lycos is a search engine that searches the Internet daily, building an index of what is available, and making this index available to be searched. The index contains every word on every page, so it will find every reference to the search words you have chosen.
Webcrawler
Webcrawler originally started out as an experiment at the University of Washington in 1994. Since then it has escalated to become a very popular search engine. Webcrawler uses spider technology to search and summarize over 50 million web pages, and over two weeks of Usenet news. It also includes in it's search database over 61,000 reviews of web sites written by professional journalists from all over the globe.
AltaVista
AltaVista gives you access to over 31 million web pages (found on over 627,000 servers), over 4 million articles from 14,000 Usenet news groups. AltaVista is accessed over 31 million times per week.