The BestWays to Search and find Educational Material on the Web
Introduction
Finding Web documents (Web "pages" or "sites") can be easy or at times impossibly difficult. This is because of the sheer size of the WWW, currently estimated to contain 1 billion plus documents. It is also because the WWW is not indexed in any standard vocabulary. When you "search the Web," you are NOT searching it directly. The Web is the totality of the many web pages which reside on computers (called "servers") all over the world. Your computer cannot find or go to them all directly. What you are able to do through your computer is access one of several intermediate databases and/or web-pages which contains selections of other web pages organized to allow you to find other web pages and sometimes other databases. You search these intermediate "search tools," and they can provide you with hypertext links (URLs) to other pages. You click on these links, and retrieve documents, images, sound, and more from individual servers around the world.
The Best Ways to Search
There are several important steps in finding material on the Web. I would suggest going here first to find out how to best begin to search the Web. You will find my favorite Educational search engines in a comprehensive table below.Click on the images to activate the search engine.
| The Best new Search Engine. Google is designed to impose order on information chaos. It really is the best. Google indexes1,060,000,000 web pages | |
| I like Metacrawler (the best meta search engine..in my view). | |
| The very BEST collection of Search Engines & Web-Site Links. (I like this site very much!!) | |
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Yahooligans is a great site for kids because it is protected from inappropriate material.