INFORMATION UPDATE  
    August 2006                            Number 76

Welcome to INFORMATION UPDATE, a monthly resource for
information seekers and users.

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IN THIS ISSUE
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   => Do It Yourself - Search Using Multiple Search Engines
   => Notes, News and Announcements
   => Subscribe/Unsubscribe Information

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DO IT YOURSELF - Search Using Multiple Search Engines
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Experienced Web searchers agree.  For the best Internet
search results, use more than one search engine.

That seems like sound advice.  Now which search engines 
should we use?  There are lots to choose from, ranging from
the all-purpose (like Google) to the subject specific (like
Scirus for scientific information only).  In this issue of
Information Update we'll list some all-purpose search
engines and save the subject specific ones for next time.

These are widely used, tried and true search tools.
Bookmark or put them in your toolbar for easy access:

Google     http://www.google.com
Yahoo!     http://www.yahoo.com
MSN        http://www.msn.com/
Ask.com    http://www.ask.com

Google continues to stand out as the most popular.  It is
heavily used and well respected.  Yahoo! offers an
excellent web search engine.  It also has the directory 
feature so that you can browse for your topic under pre-
defined categories.  MSN represents Microsoft's presence
on the web.  The search engine is good and free Hotmail has
been a big draw since Mircrosoft bought them in 1998.  Ask,
formerly Ask Jeeves, uses proprietary search relevancy
technology obtained in 2001 by purchasing Teoma.  The
binoculars icon lets you preview a page without downloading
it.

There are some tools called meta search engines that will
search across multiple search engine databases all at the
same time.  Use these with caution, however, since they do
not search as deeply as each individual search engine used
alone.  Popular meta search engines include:

Dogpile searches Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Ask, About, and more.
Dogpile will remove duplicates.  http://www.dogpile.com

Cacti also searches Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask.  Cacti
ranks the results by relevancy.  http://www.cactisearch.com/


Happy Searching!

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Notes, News, and Announcements
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Shamel Information Services wishes all Information Update
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Cynthia L. Shamel, editor

Shamel Information Services

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