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Below is a list of search engine links that CyberWalker regularly uses as research tools. See also a list of books about researching the Internet toward the bottom of the page.

Also see CyberWalker's "How to Search the Web effectively" column.

Search Engine Type Tips page Comments

Yahoo! Directory Advanced search syntax Good place to start if what you seek can be categorized

Yahoo! Canada Directory/Guide Help Uses same engine as Yahoo!, but has a Canadian only feature.

Excite
(and Magellan) Directory/Guide Excite tips Great "more links like this" function.

Hotbot Spider/Index Search tips Where I go right after Yahoo!

Webcrawler Spider Tips Not bad, but I don't use it much.

Lycos Spider Help for Lycos Search Top 5% listings are a good place to find quality sites.

Alta Vista Canada Spider Help Type in a question functionality is kind of neat. Yahoo! supports this too.

Specialty Searches

Specialty Search Type Description Comments

Canada 411 Canadian phone numbers Useful to track down Canadian phone numbers and addresses and postal codes Some provinces missing.

555-1212 People finder Similar to Canada 411, except includes most North American numbers. Click on "White Pages" for phone numbers.

Big Foot E-mail Look up e-mail address if addressee has registered. Sometimes you can find people you know.

CNET's Shareware.com Software Look up location of shareware download sites from around the world. Rating system for download reliability is useful

Microsoft Support Help info Look up Microsoft software problems Requires a one-time registration ... free.

Search books

Title Author Bookseller

Web Developer.Com Guide to Search Engines Wes Sonnenreich and Tim MacInta Chapters

Searching & Researching on the Internet and Web Ernest C. Ackermann and Karen Hartman Chapters

How to Search the Web: A Quick-Reference Guide Edited by Robert S. Want Chapters

Searching Smart on the World Wide Web Cheryl Gould Chapters

Yahoo! Unplugged David Filo, Jerry Yang, Karen Heyman Chapters

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