Search engines, like Alta Vista (http://www.altavista.com) and Ask Jeeves (http://www.askjeeves.com), comb through millions of pages on the Internet to bring you a list of sites in which your search terms appear.
 


 
 
 

You simply type in your search terms....
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 
 

...and the search engine retrieves a list of links to
Web sites in which your terms appear.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The advantage of using a large search engine like AltaVista lies in the great number of results you can retrieve.  However, search engines of this type retrieve sites rather indiscriminately.  You may still have to comb through many sites in which your terms are used only as a sideline before you get to the ones that you are interested in.

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