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• - Collection of search resources and tips for college students from Oakton Community College, including Boolean searches, copyright and citing sources.
  
• - Fravia describes the nature of the web, and offers advanced searching strategies and techniques, including designing your own searchbots.
  
• - Tips on how to search and links to many search sites from Stan Rockwell.
  
• - Scott Nicholson helps you choose the most appropriate search engine for your needs, then shows you how to use it.
  
• - A comprehensive guide to search engine terminology from Pandecta Magazine.
  
• - An extract from Niall Ó Dochartaigh, The Internet Research Handbook: A Practical Guide for Students and Researchers in the Social Sciences (2002).
  
• - Introduces various resources for Web searching from Ric Shreves.
  
• - Learn how to conduct your own people search and background checks.
  
• - A tutorial from Ross Tyner of the University of Calgary on Web searching tools and techniques, with links to search engines and details of their features.
  
• - How to find information on the Internet and beyond. Covers theory in great detail.
  
• - Summary of indexing techniques and drawbacks of various search engines and how to perform effective searches tips.
  
• - Mark Wennning describes how to use search engines, directories and newsgroups, covering simple and advanced techniques. Includes a search engine control features chart.
  
• - Gwen Harris explains web searching, strategies and tools from a Canadian perspective. Includes also Internet Explorer (5.0-5.5) basics, e-mail communication, and discussion groups.
  
• - Charles Harris explains how to find information, people, and pictures on the Net and gives hints on evaluating the reliability of Web-based sources.
  
• - The University of California Berkeley recommends search strategies, explains search tools, and gives guidance on evaluating and citing web pages. Includes a glossary and tables comparing search tools.
  
• - Interactive tutorials from The Ohio State University Libraries to help you search the Web effectively, evaluate information and incorporate it into research projects.
  
• - Tips on smarter web surfing from a Columbia University journalism professor and WABC-TV's technology reporter Sreenath Sreenivasan.
  
• - Outlines the history, functioning, features and types of search engines. Includes resources, news and search tips for web users.
  
• - Debbie Flanagan's interactive tutorial on using search engines, subject directories, and specific databases to find information on the Internet fast and effectively.
  
• - Dave Haupt explains the basics of web searching: the difference between a directory and a search engine, and how to use Boolean expressions.
  
• - Answers to frequently asked questions on the alt.internet.search-engines Usenet newsgroup.
  
• - Practical steps to improve the quality of your Internet search results.
  
• - Explores Internet search theory, the work of David Novak, a researcher bridging library science to computer science. Covers search strategy, new techniques and choreography.
  
• - A multi-lingual glossary of search engine terms as suggested by members of the I-Search Digest.
  
• - A suite of interactive tools designed to aid students and professionals with their online research, from selecting a search engine and finding some relevant sources, to citing those sources.
  
• - Curt Franklin's article explains in detail how search engines work. It includes a diagram of the indexing process.
  
• - The Internet Public Library advises on which search engine to choose and how best to use them.
  
• - Part of an online guidebook from the State of Victoria Department of Education and Training. Includes all stages of planning, executing and evaluating a search.