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Internet Search Engines

All the Web - Owned by Yahoo - search for web pictures, videos, etc.

Altavista -The service had two innovations that set it ahead of the other search engines that could cover a lot more Web pages than were believed to exist, and an efficient search back-end running on advanced hardware. These made AltaVista the first searchable, full-text database of a large part of the World Wide Web. AltaVista provides free translation, branded Babel Fish, which translates text between several world languages.

Ask.com - The current incarnation of AskJeeves, this is a solid search engine that produced excellent retrieval. Search options include images, news, blogs & feeds, maps, and more.

DogPile - All the best search engines piled into one. Claims to include Google, Yahoo, Windows Live Search and Ask.

Excite - Easy to use with convenient buttons for searching, video, images, audio, and news.

Google - Google is a search engine owned by Google, Inc. whose mission statement is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". The largest search engine on the web, Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services. In addition to its tool for searching webpages, Google also provides services for searching images, Usenet newsgroups, news websites, videos, searching by locality, maps, and items for sale online.

Google Scholar - Google Scholar indexes a portion of the scholarly literature. Artile links will go directly Preston's electronic full text resources are indicated by "Preston Medical eText".

HONselect - Health On the Net--An integrated healthcare search engine that combines five information types: MeSH terms, scientific articles, healthcare news, Web sites, and multimedia.

Live Search - This search engine from Microsoft has many of the same features as Google. Included is an academic search of scholarly journals with direct links to Preston's electronic full text resources when available. Formatting for Refworks and other reference management software is also offered.

Yahoo - In years past Yahoo was distinguished by its excellent subject directory of hand selected resources. The directory remains, but competes with similar search engines using its own crawled database. Like Google and Live Search, Yahoo offers search options for images, video, and news.

Try Search Engine Watch to learn more about search engines and how to use them.

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