Internet Search Tips and Searching BioTactics

Search Tips

Web Search Engines:

Submit your searches from the BioTactics Site- Complete form and press search:

Alta Vista Web Search Digital's new search engine (Select query type: Simple or Advanced) Altavista translation page -

language translation for any web page.

HotBot Major new search engine from HotWired/Inktomi

InfoSeek (Type your search in plain English or key words and phrases)

Fast Searches- searches are performed by multiple search engines:

DogPile Metasearch of 13 WWW Search engines, 6 Usenet sources, and 2 FTP archives

How to:	Search the Web: Tips & QuickLinks
Search tips on the Web	Tips and techniques for searching the web. Power searching; search engine reviews, Boolean Searches; Journalist's guide to the Web; Search engines: Hotbot, Infoseek, www.excite.com,www.yahoo.com, most comprehensive -www.altavista.digital.com. Company profile info, use Infoseek's company profile. Search newsgroups -www.dejanews.com.
Best Engines	As voted by PC Computing: 1. Hotbot, (graphics leave much to be desired!), 2. Infoseek, 3. Excite 4. Yahoo.com - not the most comprensive, but the indexing is very useful.
Foreign Language Search	Altavista- international translator for searching the web
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How to use the search engine for the BioTactics Site:

Use the search form on the home page to search for documents in this web containing words or combinations of words. The text search engine will display a weighted list of matching documents, with better matches shown first.
Query language. This search engine uses Boolean query language. Tips on Boolean searches (may also be used when searching the web)
Keep in mind that many of same words tend to appear on each page. Whenever possible, be specific in your request.
Avoid using the words found in the navigation bars. These words appear on every page and will return many duplicate pages in your search.
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