Suggestions for More Effective Web Searches

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Suggested Internet Research Strategies by Ronald Kriesel, it specializes in internet research strategies.
Web Search Cheat Sheet contains major portions of AltaVista, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, Magellan, WebCrawler, and Yahoo help pages in one document to facilitate searching.
Web Search Tool Features displays in tables some of the features and techniques for Alta Vista, Excite, HotBot, Infoseek, Lycos, Open Text, and Webcrawler to show how to use them and to help decide which may be the most appropriate for your need.
Webmaster's Guide to Search Engines by Danny Sullivan, Calafia Consulting. It includes a Search Engines Features Section , which provides a table summary of important factors and features of how Alta Vista, Excite, HotBot, Infoseek, Lycos, Northern Light, and Webcrawler are indexed.