Search Engines

How many references will I get? Small data bases give from 40 to 400, medium to large give from 250 to 20,000 references. Start small.

Yahoo 85,000 pages
Webcrawler 250,000 pages
Excite 1 million pages. To limit search, link terms: put a + in front of the terms you want to link together-this narrows the search: +rain +forest = rainforest
Open Text 1 million pages
Info Seek Net 1 million pages
Lycos 51 million pages

Yahoo uses Open Text search server has an 85,000 page database, is the big name in indexes; is accurate but gives limited searching.
Info Seek Net has its own search engine has about 1 million pages is very fast and accurate.
Webcrawler has its own search engine has about 250,000 pages in its database is easy to use, fast, but indiscriminate-it goes from page to page.
Lycos uses its own search engine has over 51 million pages is slow, busy and thorough.
Excite has its own search engine, a 1 million page database and includes reviews of web sites.
Open Text has its own search engines and a 1 million page database is fast and permits a range of searches.

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