A Quick Guide To Search Engines

Information Need	Search Engine
Case Sensitive Search	InfoSeek, Alta Vista, Hot Bot, Yahoo!
Cities/Travel	Lycos, Yahoo, Excite, Webcrawler, InfoSeek, Magellan
Columnists	Open Text
Date Search	Hot Bot, Alta Vista
E-Mail Addresses	Lycos, InfoSeek, Yahoo, Open Text, Excite
Entertainment	Beaucoup, InfoSeek, Magellan
Evaluated WWW Sites	Magellan, Webcrawler, Lycos
Full-text Indexing	Alta Vista, Open Text
Maps	Lycos, InfoSeek, Excite, Webcrawler
Multiple Search Engines	Savvy Search, All-In-One, Beaucoup
Person Search	Lycos, Yahoo, Excite, Hot Bot
Personal Home Pages	Who's Who on the Internet
Phrase Searching	InfoSeek, Alta Vista, Hot Bot
Plain English Queries	InfoSeek, Alta Vista, Hot Bot, Lycos
Pictures/Sounds	Lycos, Hot Bot, Beaucoup
Review (Movies and Books)	Excite, Magellan, Beaucoup, InfoSeek
Sports	InfoSeek, Yahoo, Excite, Beaucoup, Webcrawler, Magellan
Stocks	Lycos, InfoSeek, Yahoo, Excite
Subject Tree/Directory	Lycos, InfoSeek, Yahoo, Excite, Magellan, Webcrawler, Yahooligans, Beaucoup
Summaries	Webcrawler, Open Text, Alta Vista, Lycos
Top 5% of the Internet	Lycos
Top News Stories	Lycos, InfoSeek, Yahoo, Open Text, Excite, Magellan
Weather	InfoSeek, Yahoo,

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