If you love sounds, you'll want to know where to find them. Sound files are prolific on the Internet, but if you're after a particular sound, finding the one you want can be just as hard as searching for Web pages. Knowing where to search can make the difference between a hundred thousand relatively useless search engine results and a hundred very useful results. Here's a few search tips that can help you track down sounds on the Internet.
Search engines Using a traditional search engine to search for sounds can be extremely frustrating.
Large indexes like AltaVista are designed to index Web pages and not to look for files that you download. Luckily, two large search engines have recognized the popularity of sound files and created special accommodations that make searching for sound-related Web sites fairly easy. Lycos Pictures and Sound page Lycos has a special search engine that lets you search for only image or sound files. This search engine allows you to use radio buttons to search for sound-related sites. You can also access the sound search engine via a dropdown box from Lycos' main page.