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Internet Research for Students: The Best Search Engines
From About.com: the Student's Quick Reference Guide to Internet Research.

The Student's Quick Reference Guide to Internet Research
What every college, university, and high school student should know about successful academic research using the Internet.

StumbleUpon.com: a Smart Alternative to Googling!
StumbleUpon.com is a special free web navigation service. Instead of using library science and Google indexing, Stumble Upon is based on a community of users who share their personal interest suggestions with each other. A very intelligent and very useful way to surf the web...

Top 10 Search Engines: Users Vote at About.com
About users vote: The Top 10 Favorite Search Engines, Summer 2005

Internet Searching 201: Intermediate Techniques
Obscure little techniques like +/- operators, NEAR/FAR/OR keywords, (" ") symbols can improve how focused your search results are. Read more on these intermediate search methods...

Searching 101: Beginner's Guide to Web Searching
Yes, Internet searching is very daunting and very frustrating if no one has ever taken the time to explain it to you. Look no further... here is a collection of tutorials that will dramatically improve your search knowledge and confidence!

What Are the Major Search Engines?
There are literally hundreds of Internet search engines, and their counterparts, search directories. Internet users tend to favor a select few because of their balance of depth, breadth, speed, and presentation. Here is a list of some popular Search Engines and Directories to get you started.

What Are "Search Directories"?
Search "directories" are indeed different from search "engines": they use people to catalog and filter content. Wendy Boswell explains...

Intermediate Search Tip: Creating a Good Search String
If you are a confident beginner or intermediate web user, then About Guide Wendy Boswell has tremendous advice for improving your searches by improving your search criteria.

How to Construct a Good Search Query
Should I use 3 words or 5 words? What do double quotes mean? When do I use + and - sign operators? Learn the basics and the advanced searching skills here.

Meta Searching
From the latin word "meta", meaning "across", metasearching is when you search across search engines. For some types of searches, this is the best way to go.

Cool Search Tools
Googlism! Tiny URLs! The Wayback Archive! Very very neat stuff.

How Do Web Pages Get Cataloged?
Also known as "Search Engine Optimization", this tutorial will explain how Google and other popular engines technically index web content. If you are technically-curious, then you might find this quite interesting.

Zeitgeist! The Web Culture, And Its 2003 Patterns
Meaning "spirit of the time", Zeitgeist is the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era. Zeitgeist is also Google's way of tracking the most popular searches of 2003. Interestingly enough, people liked to search for eminem, Prince Charles, David Beckham, and Iraq. See the other surprising results here.