Hints for Searching the World Wide Web


To get desired information from the World Wide Web, one way to start is to access one of the sites that contain long lists of links to other web sites. A few examples of these for Biology include the following:

To avoid paging through many long lists or to find sites not on these lists, try a "web search." By this method, you can enter a key word or words (follow the instructions for the specific search engine) and get back a long list of internet locations that match the search parameters you have specified. Beware using very general terms, lest you get back a list of thousands of sites.

Search Engine Watch - learn about the various search engines, including features and ratings

Some popular search utilities:

Search Engine Watch's list of Major Search Engines

Meta search engines - they use other search engines and then compile the results:

Search Engine Watch's list of metacrawlers