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. Watch out
for '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! (www.yahoo.ca)
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
(www.altavista.digital.com)
and Infoseek (guide-p.infoseek.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.
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