How to use the Internet: Web Searches

Web search tools allow you to search the Web for documents containing a particular word or collection of words. You can think of Web searches as similar to searching a library's computer catalog. Just as the directories vary in construction and quality, however, so do the tools for searching the Web. When you initiate a search, you are searching a database of Web sites which the search provider has compiled. The results you obtain will depend on how many sites the database contains, how the sites are selected for inclusion and how they are indexed.

Netscape has provided a link to various search engines, together with links to other search providers. Try the same search in several of the search tools.

Using Netscape, you can get to this search window at any time with the button.


Resources for the Study of Religion: The Internet - How to Use the Internet: Web Searches
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Last modified: October 14, 1996