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General Search Engines
- Input several specific keywords.
- Enclose phrase in quotation marks, e.g. "solar system".
- Use and to include a word; not to exclude a word e.g. (skiing and snow) not water.
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AlltheWeb Help Ask.com Yahoo Help
Google Help Excite Help Lycos Help
HotBot Help WebCrawler Help MSN Live Search Help
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Chinese / Hong Kong Search Engines
- For sites in GB code, additional software for simplified Chinese may be needed.
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(Input terms in simplified Chinese)
Baidu ¦Ê«× Sohu ·jª°
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Timway ²K¹F (Hong Kong) Search HK Government sites HK Yellow Pages
SINA ·s®öºô (China, GB code) Yam ¤ÑªÅ (Taiwan) HK WWW Database (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)


 Multiple Search Engines
- Search multiple engines simultaneously.
- Good for simple keyword searching, not effective for difficult searches.
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Dogpile Help Beaucoup MetaCrawler Help
Vivisimo thebighub.com WebTaxi Help
Mamma Search.com Search-It-All
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Search Engines by Subjects or Topics
- Websites are classified by human experts into broad subject categories.
- Find fewer results, but of higher quality.
Internet Resources By Subjects
(compiled by PolyU Library)
Infomine Scout Report Signposts
Britannica Web's Best Academic Info Magellan Internet Guide
Librarians' Index to the Internet Yahoo ¡@


Multimedia Search Engines


Search Engine Directory


Language Translators


Miscellaneous Search Sites
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Email: lbcelia@polyu.edu.hk

Last updated: 30 Dec 2008