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Search the web is easy. Search right the web is hard. Did you know that Google is a little more than a simple search engine? It has very powerful features you should learn.

Take a look at this to search the web more efficiently

Search at Google, now to to Advanced Search. Look at all the options you see there.

With all of the words - This search searches for pages with all the words you type, but not an exact phrase.

With the exact phrase - This search looks for pages with the exact phrase.

with at least one of the words - Searches for all pages with at least one of the words you choose.

Without the words - Negative Search. Removes pages with that words.

These are more search options to filter the results even better

Language - Filter your results by different languages

Region - If you know where the place is...

File Format - .PDF .ZIP .RAR .DOC. .TXT

Date - Useful for historical information

Occurrences - If you know what happened

Domain - You can search a specific domain if you want to search only inside a webpage!

Usage Rights - You can see what the usage rights are.

If Google is not enough for you can can always search on other engines, take a look at this list:

This information is from Wikipedia!

General search engines

* Alexa Internet
* Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves)
* Exalead
* Gigablast
* Google
* Live Search (formerly MSN Search)
* MozDex
* Yahoo! Search

Open source search engines

* DataparkSearch
* Egothor
* Gonzui
* Grub
* Ht://dig
* Isearch
* Lucene
* Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine
* mnoGoSearch
* Namazu
* Nutch
* OpenFTS
* Sciencenet (for scientific knowledge, based on YaCy technology)
* Search Wikia
* Sphinx
* SWISH-E
* Terrier Search Engine
* Xapian
* YaCy
* Zettair

[edit] Metasearch engines

* Brainboost
* Clusty
* Dogpile
* Excite
* HotBot
* Info.com
* Ixquick
* Krozilo
* Mamma
* Metacrawler
* MetaLib
* Myriad Search
* SideStep
* Surfwax
* Turbo10
* WebCrawler

See also: Metasearch engine

[edit] Regional search engines

* Accoona, China/US
* Alleba, Philippines
* Ansearch, Australia/US/UK/NZ
* Baidu, China
* Daum, Korea
* Guruji.com, India
* Araby, Middle East
* Miner.hu, Hungary
* Najdi.si, Slovenia
* Naver, Korea
* Onkosh, Middle East
* Rambler, Russia
* Rediff, India
* SAPO, Portugal
* Search.ch, Switzerland
* Sesam, Norway, Sweden
* Walla!, Israel
* Yandex, Russia

[edit] People search engines

* Ex.plode.us
* InfoSpace
* Spock
* Wink
* Zabasearch.com
* ZoomInfo

[edit] Email-based search engines

* Nicado
* TEK

[edit] Visual search engines

* Grokker
* Kartoo
* Quintura

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