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Part 7: Finding Resources on the World Wide Web

2. Search Engines

You will want to explore beyond the Libraries' lists to find specific pieces of information for your research. To do so, you need to use search engines. These are tools which serve, in some ways, as indexes for material on the Web. No single search engine covers the whole Web, so be prepared to use several.

Search engines can be divided into two types. First are those that are not, strictly speaking, search engines, but rather are subject catalogs which gather Web pages and put them into categories. An example of a selective catalog is the Librarian's Index to the Internet.

NOTE: The following screens are SAMPLES only. They are not interactive.

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