= Search engines which gather and index web pages by walking the web, visiting web servers, and indexing their content. Alta Vista, Google, Hotbot, Lycos, Snap, Webcrawler, Excite, FastSearch

EVALUATING RESOURCES YOU FIND ON THE WEB When you consider incorporating information from any resource into a research project, you should carefully evaluate its accuracy and appropriateness. This is especially true when you are looking at web pages from freely-accessible sites on the Internet. The WSU librarians have developed resources to assist you web page evaluation. PDF file | Webpage | You may wish to look over subject-specific evaluation criteria designed by librarians at Widener University.

= Search engines that rely on human editors to collect and organize web pages by category of information. Yahoo, Magellan, Direct Hit, Open Directory, About.com, Librarians Index to the Web.

M = Metasearch engines which compile data by using search results from numerous web search engines. Dogpile, Interference Find, Supercrawler, SearchSpaniel, InfiniSearch, Metafind

= Search engines focusing on multi-media files (pictures, sound, etc.) MediaFind, AltaVista Photo Finder, MP3meta

= Statistical search engines NESSTAR, SDA, DATA Ferret Demographic Data Viewer, Demographic Datanet

S= Specialized search engines Argos - Ancient History documents NetFirst - Catalogues web pages Dejanews - Search Usenet news groups

For more on commercial search engines, tips on se arching, visit sites below sponsored by SEARCH ENGINE WATCH.

· SEARCH ENGINE MATH Tips for AltaVista, Excite, HotBot, Infoseek / Go, Google, GoTo, Lycos, Netscape Search, Snap, WebCrawler, and Yahoo

· POWER SEARCHING FOR ANYONE - Advanced searching tips.