Internet Search

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Internet Search

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This page contains a series of search engines designed for scouring the world wide web for sites that meet your requirements. Although we try to list as many useful sites as we can here at Teacher Trails, sometimes you have to bite the bullet and search for that elusive piece of information yourself. Sorry!

But before you start scouring the net, why not try our internal search engine. You might just find a link to what you are looking for here.

Teacher Trails Internal Search Engine

Use the form below to search for documents in this web containing specific words or combinations of words. The text search engine will display a weighted list of matching documents, with better matches shown first. Each list item is a link to a matching document; if the document has a title it will be shown, otherwise only the document's file name is displayed. A brief explanation of the query language is available, along with examples.

Teacher Trails Search

Try searchUK: Small coverage as it focuses on UK sites. Avoids the long lists of U.S sites.

Ask Jeeves - Wonderful search engine allowing you to type in questions in normal english.

Yahoo - Still the number 1 search engine.

Hotbot - A brilliant search engine which reaches an estimated 34% of all web pages. Other search engines can't compete.

Webcrawler - One of the least popular search engines.

Excite - A very popular and important search engine.

AltaVista - Offers a wide coverage.

Lycos - Very popular.

Infoseek - very useful for finding commercial sites.

Metacrawler - Good for International coverage using most of the well known engines to ensure a good number of hits.

Query Language

The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example:

information retrieval

finds documents containing 'information' or 'retrieval'

information or retrieval

same as above

information and retrieval

finds documents containing both 'information' and 'retrieval'

information not retrieval

finds documents containing 'information' but not 'retrieval'

(information not retrieval) and WAIS

finds documents containing 'WAIS', plus 'information' but not 'retrieval'

web*

finds documents containing words starting with 'web'

Query Language

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