Notre Dame de Sion Library

Educating minds, expanding hearts, empowering lives.


Internet Search Strategies

Basic Searching Tips


Google Power Search

 

Search engines besides Google. Google does not index everything. Different search engines give different results.

 

Ask.com  In a sidebar, Ask.com gives you a list of search terms to help you narrow or broaden your search. Images automatically display.

 

Bing.com

 

Clusty.com Like Ask.com, Clusty "clusters" your search terms to refine your search.

 

Metacrawler.com 

Metacrawler searches across several well-known search engines simultaneously. It's a great way to compare search results. Try it!

 

Visual search engines

http://www.mugurdy.com/search.aspx. Mugurdy displays search results as agrid of screen shots. Place your cursor over one of the screen shots to see an enlarged version of the image.

http://www.bing.com/visualsearch. Allows searching by images that fit into data groupings. Searches bring up galleries of images. Also try http://www.google.com/squared which allows comparing data in tabular form.