Tips Website Evaluation Internet Tutorials Fun Stuff MISD Internet Policy Mesquite ISD provides Internet access for faculty and students who have read and signed the Internet Acceptable Use Policy at the beginning of the school year. View it here. Search engines , such as AltaVista or HotBot, create their listings automatically.
Search engines crawl the web, then people search through what they have found.
A directory such as Yahoo is a list of sites that have been collected and organized by humans instead of computers. Some combine both search engines and directories together. Refer to Searching Tips for suggestions about when to choose a search engine vs. a directory, as well as tips on how to choose effective search terms. Google now combines its very efficient search engine with Open Directory. AltaVista is one of the largest search engines.