- For the most part they are free
- It is like having a huge encyclopedia open to you
- There are ways to refine your search find what you need
Below are some Popular Search Engines
You may be wondering if search engines are free to users who pays to
maintain and update them. Advertising and web hosting pays for some of
costs but usually it is just free, and hopefully it stays that way.
Google
This is an extremely good search engine, it also has a very good
"News" tab
that links to many newspapers around the world.
Under "Directory" it organizes
the Internet into categories.
The "Groups" tab uses "usenet" for discussion forums.
There is also a tab to search for "Images".
http://www.google.com
Altavista
This is another excellent search engine.
It also has the categories of "News"
and "Images".
It also has "Video" and "MP3/Audio"
There are many features that can be accessed from doing "Translations"
to
searching other countries and languages.
http://www.altavista.com
Yahoo search
MSN search
Hotbot search
