SEARCH ENGINES

This section contains links to a variety of engines used to search the internet. Try a variety of them to see which ones are most helpful to you.

Femina, (femina.cybergrrl.com) a brainchild of Cybergrrl, is a search engine geared particularly to women. This search engine works best if you stay within their suggested categories of specialization.

WWWomen (www.wwwomen.com) is the "premier search engine for women online" and has an actual organization of women behind it. Avoid the 'pop-up' windows offering freebies. If you click on one, it can lead you to a series of these windows and you may have to close your web browser and start over.

Google (www.google.com) based in the US and Google (www.google.ca) in Canada are what smart geeks use! York University now uses Google as the search engine on its own website.

Yahoo! (http://ca.yahoo.com/) is one of the best search engines for finding Canadian sites. Its well-organized listing by category also helps you find what you're looking for even you have no specific search terms in mind.

Excite (www.excite.com) and Webcrawler (www.webcrawler.com) are two search engines that function best when given specific search terms like "women's studies", but be prepared to wade through a lot of stuff to find what you want. Altavista (http://www.altavista.com/) and Go.com (http://go.com/) aren't bad either.

Google Groups (groups.google.com) lets you search Usenet newsgroups for keywords, as well as subscribe to newsgroups. It's a good tool for finding quite specific information, particularly on academic subjects. Before you post questions to newsgroups search here first, you may have already been answered.