Searching the World Wide Web Using the WWW as a Research Tool Learning About the Internet Critical Thinking and Evaluation of WWW Resources Library Guides by Subject Searching the World Wide Web Citing Internet Resources in Research Searching the World Wide Web Search Engines Search engines are indexes to Web pages. Found at various sites on the Web, these indexed databases allow searchers to query millions of pages for an exact word or phrase.
Every search engine is different.
Certain engines search not only web sites but also Usenet groups or image databases or software archives. The inconsistency in search engines requires the searcher to be alert to the help and informational sections that invariably appear on these sites . If you don't know how to formulate a search or truncate a term or search for a phrase, check out the available help on the page. The best approach to searching the WWW is to use a variety of search engines since no one engine covers the whole Web . Even smaller engines may retrieve relevant sites that the larger engines may have missed.