There are many different search tools available for seeking information on the World Wide Web. You should be aware that if you do not find relevant information using one tool that does not mean the information does not exist. An identical search using different search tools will almost always yield different results. Altavista Altavista is a powerful search engine set up by the Digital Equipment Corporation.
More complex searches are also available using advanced query syntax.
Altavista claims to have 16 million webpages and 13,000 news groups in its index and more than 8 billion words. Google Google is a search engine that makes heavy use of link popularity as a primary way to rank web sites. Hotbot uses parallel, network of workstations technology to download over 10 million web pages a day, from around the world. InfoSeek Infoseek allows users to search for web sites, email addresses, Usenet newsgroups, news, and web faqs. The service also includes a subject-oriented directory that allows users to browse different sites.