Search Engines

Search Engines use a software program  to search  through its own database and returns a list of results - links to files that contain the keywords or phrase you have typed in. Examples of Search Engines:

 • AlltheWeb
 • AltaVista
 • ANZwers
 • Ask Jeeves
 • DirectHit
 • Dogpile
 • Excite
 • Google
 • HotBot
 • Lycos
 • MetaCrawler
 • Scirus (Scientific Information ONLY!)
 • WhatUSeek

Tip: Enclose search terms in double quotation marks, for example "organic gardening Australia", to be treated by the search engine as a phrase, not as single words.

Subject Directories 

Subject directories provides indexes for browsing. Examples of subject directories. 

 • LookSmart
 • NewsTrawler
 • Web Wombat
 • Yahoo!
 • Yahoo! AU & NZ