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Search Australia
Major Australian
Search Engines
- GoEureka (was Alta Vista (Aust)) -
still a no fuss option but in a portal format
- Excite - Australian
portal site if you subscribe (free) you can get free live stock
updates.
- Looksmart (Aust) -
restricts the sites listed according to various criteria
- Web Wombat - excellent
Australian and New Zealand Search, also includes good newspaper and
magazine links, also now has international links.
- Yahoo (Aust) -
category based searching which is good if you only have a general idea
of what you want, also searches world.
- Anzwers from ozemail
Other Australian
Search Engines
- BabyOil
community based directory based on Lycos.
- Kapow is an Australian
Based engine with a simple interface. It seems to be created and
supported by an advertising firm.
- OzSearch new
australian engine, with a clean interface
- SoftCom Directories Australian Sites, one site per entry.
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Search International
- Alta Vista
- Ask Jeeves - a search
engine that you type questions into. User friendly for new internet
users. E.g. it responds to queries such as "What is the stock price for
ABC Corp?".
- Ask
Jeeves for Kids - has some
filtering software on it to filter out adult sites
- Excite
- Fast Search - aims to
be comprehensive as possible
- Google developed out of a Stanford Project, it often
comes up with the correct site first time (hence the I feel lucky
button to go to the first hit)
- InfoHiway
- Infoseek - categories
- Invisible Web - Search
other Search engines and proprietary database formats; you'll find
things on this engine not available to other search engines
- Looksmart - categories
- Lycos - categories
- Lycos FTP Search -
search for files to download
- Magellan
- Mining
Co a directory of the internet
set out in topic format - good for general topics.
- New Zealand Explorer
only searches NZ
- dmoz
Open Directory Project - human
evaluated search directory with large numbers of sub editors
- Snap
- WebCrawler
- Webrings associations
of sites which band together in common groups.
- Yahoo - categories
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Search Tips
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What is a
search engine? It is a program you enter search term(s) in
(such as Weather and Adelaide) and click search. The programs will then
display a number of relevant results (usually around 10).
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Why are
there so many search engines? They each work in different
ways, for example, through people or programs categorising sites.
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How can I
be sure I have everything relating to a topic on the internet?
You can't. In order to increase thoroughness it is advisable to search
similar terms and try a few different engines. Multiple search engines
(or meta engines) are designed to return results from several engines
at once.
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For better search
techniques see boolean
terms
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For more search
engines, see All-in-One
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For more search
engine tips see The Spider's Apprentice from Monash Uni
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If you really
want to be comprehensive, try the Spire Project - a serious research resource .
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Boolean Terms
Many search engines support boolean terms for better
searching.
Boolean terms are phases such as:
- bob and screamer = finds both
- bob or screamer = finds either
- bob not screamer = finds one term without the other
- bob near screamer = finds the terms close together.
See Altavista's Advanced Help for more.
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