SLCC Library Services Search Services and Web Guides Search results vary in quality, currency, and type of content. To get the best results, read the searching instructions for a specific tool, try a few searches, and learn from the results. Remember, no one search tool will provide comprehensive results so it is best to learn how to use several.
Web guides are collections of web pages that have been organized into subject categories.
Some web guides are designed by librarians specifically for student research and contain carefully selected and reviewed web sites. These web guides are often the best place to begin your search. Meta search engines typically don't use their own Web indexes. Instead, they search several other search engines simultaneously, and present results in some sort of integrated format. This lets you see at a glance which particular search engine returned the best results for a query without having to search each one individually.