It is not being maintained, and thus many links to educational resources can be expected not to function. Search engines are locations on the WWW that have been designed to assist you in searching through the large amounts of information that are found on the Internet. Simply stated, a search engine is a large database or index of links to information. Often these results are ranked by relevancy to your search request. It is important to remember that each search engine has its own database so you seldom get the same search result from any two search engines.
Most search engines update their databases about every two weeks.
You are automatically taken to one of five randomly selected search engines. At this time the search engines are Lycos, WebCrawler, Excite, Yahoo, and InfoSeek. It is important to note that this is just an introductory page and you will need to make the link to the actual homepage of the search engine. At the introductory page this can be done by selecting or clicking on the name or logo of the search engine. . . . . Each search engine has detailed directions on how to search effectively using that particular search engine.