For assistance, please don't hesitate to ask Reference staff at your local library or consult our Guide to the Search Tools. This list of links connects you directly to the help page of the particular search tool listed.
Italics highlight the most notable feature of each.
AltaVista Tutorial AltaVista is best known for its advanced search features . The tutorial does a good job of illustrating how to use Boolean operators for best results. Excite's most useful offering may be its NewsTrakker database , indexing over 300 news sources on the Web. Google Search Tips Google is very highly rated for its short list of relevant hits . A current staff favorite.