Getting+the+Most+out+of+a+Web+Search

** Search Directories **
==== These are lists of links to other sites related to a particular subject. An example is the  [|English Online links page] or [|au.dir.yahoo.com]  ==== ** Portal Sites **

**Popular sites **
** [|AOL Search]   [|Alta Vista]**
 *  [|Google] **
 *  [|Yahoo!] **
 *  [|alltheweb.com] **
 *  [|Ask.com] **
 *  [|Excite] **
 *  [|Alta Vista] **

 [|Yahoo] [|AltaVista] [|Google] [|Infoseek] [|Excite] // **Experiment with different search engines and refine your search strategies.** // = = //** Find the following information ** A Poem called Birches Pictures of baby chicks Pseudonym of George Orwell // **Sometimes you will find the information you want almost immediately - other times you need to use your search skills. Don't give up too easily though, persistence pays off.**

//Search Tips//
// Understand the search engine you are using. Read the 'search tips' or 'help' for the search engine - for instance //**Google Help//** Use a variety of key words and synonyms. Search engines will match the first word in your search string first. **Put the most important word or topic at the beginning.** Use quotation marks **““**to search for a phrase. Searching for **rock and roll** will return documents with any of the words **rock**, **and** or **roll**. Most search engines will match part or whole of a word - **sing** will retrieve **singer, single, singe** etc.