Luckily, engines provide features to help you narrow your scope, to better hit your motherlode. Find out below how four leading engines compare from a prospect researcher's perspective. This month, too, the Internet Prospector editors have run four popular search engines through a series of biographical test-searches. Don't miss the results of our Battle of the Search Engines . Discover how to target your results with the Prospector's tricks of the trade .
Webmasters use to influence how their sites are indexed.
Alta Vista was well-named. It is an extremely user-friendly search engine, with help screens that are easy to access from the top of any page. Last year, PC Online named Alta Vista the Web Site of the Year and Internet World Magazine gave the site an Outstanding Service Award. Your search results are found at both the beginning and the end of the page. An example of this type of search is found right under the query box.