Using them successfully has become an art in itself, and keeping up with their growing numbers has become almost an impossiblity. When using these services caveat emptor becomes a watchword. If you do not want to take the time to understand exactly how the indexes are constructed, it is essential for you to at least know what is indexed. What you are looking for definitely should color your choice of search engines . InfoSeek, the only current web searcher that is not free, offers the best precision.
Output varies, too.
The more sophisticated searchers like Lycos and Galaxy produce extremely useful entries containing abstracts, outlines, and frequent words used. Since this document was first written in the fall of 1995, as expected, an incredible growth in the number of web search engines has occured. At this point in time while it seems a rather fruitless endeavor to list all all of the available search engines, we still would like to point out those that we feel are especially useful. Frankly, you may never need to use anything other than Lycos or Alta Vista , but as always it is worth your time to choose which is the best for you. At this point in time, one would wonder why anyone would use anything other than Alta Vista for power searching, or Infoseek for loose browsing.