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• A Helpful Guide To Search Engines

• AltaVista Inconsistencies

• Amazon.com Genealogy Bookstore - Search Engines

• Ancestry.com - And, Or, and Parenthesis: The Basics of Boolean Logic for the Genealogist from the Ancestry Daily News 19 Jan 1999

  This article contains an overview of ands and ors and how to use them to structure search engine queries.

• Beginning Genealogy - Googling Your Ancestors

• Choose the Best Search for Your Information Needs

  • Comparison of Search Engine User Interface Capabilities by Gillian Westera

  • Search Engine Features

  • Search Engine Features Chart for Searchers

  • Search Engine Features Chart for Webmasters

  • Search Engine Showdown: Search Engine Statistics

  • Web Search Engine Comparison Chart

• Classroom Connect - Connected Teacher - Search Tips

• Desperately Seeking Susan OR Suzie NOT Sushi

  From the NY Times web site. Requires registration which is free.

  • Steps to Smart Searching

• Finding Information on the Internet: A TUTORIAL

  From the UC Berkeley Teaching Library Internet Workshops. Includes Search Engines, Subject Directories, Meta-Search Engines, Invisible Web, Evaluating Web Pages: Why and How, and more.

• Genealogy Searching on the Internet

• Genealogy's Star: Comparing Genealogical Search Engines

• Guide to Effective Searching of the Internet

• Internet Genealogy Surfing Techniques

• Materials towards a preliminary selective bibliography/webliography of search engines

• On the Net, Search Engine Inconsistencies

• ResearchBuzz News

  News and information about search engines, databases, and other online information.

• Search Engine Showdown

• Search Engine Watch

  • Search Engine Coverage Study Published

  • Search Engine Glossary

  • Search Engine Reviews

  • Search Engine Tutorials

  • The Search Engine Report

    Free monthly newsletter from Search Engine Watch.

• SearchEngines.com - Search Engine Rankings and Web Site Promotion Tips

• Sink or Swim: Internet Search Tools & Techniques (Version 4.0 - Fall 1999)