Crossroads Administrator A version of this workshop appeared in the ASA Newsletter , June 1996. Surfing the web sounds great, but hard to get a handle on.
Search engines are websites running powerful search and indexing codes.
Because each uses different methods of indexing URLs, the results of searches may vary widely from one engine to another. Some engines, like InfoSeek , Lycos and Webcrawler are programmed to read the URLs of all web pages in existence and return information in them corresponding to the terms of your search. Read the help files for each engine to explore their capabilities further. It is worth pointing out that the quality of what's available on the web varies widely. Though many fascinating resources have been assembled, you should not expect surfing the web to replace library or archive research.