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Searching the Web

Domains of URLs
.com, .net, .bz, .tv Commercial organizations
.org Non-profit
.gov U.S. government
.edu Educational institutions
.mil U.S. military

Meta Search: Searches across multiple search engines at once.

http://clusty.com/

http://www.copernic.com/index.html

http://dogpile.com/

http://www.hotbot.com/

Crawlers or Spiders: Search engine sends “spiders” out into the web to collect information.

http://www.google.com/

http://www.yahoo.com/

http://www.ask.com/

Directories: People compile and organize websites based on the site’s content.

http://directory.google.com/

http://dmoz.org/

http://lii.org/ LIBRARIANS’ INTERNET INDEX

 

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