Popular search engines

Whether you want to search for information about women's resources, cats or chocolate or any other subject, here's a round up of the most popular search engines available on the World Wide Web. Remember that all web search tools are not alike. Each uses a different search methodology, so your results will vary. You may not always find what you're looking for on the first try.

	Google http://www.google.com Arguably the most popular search engine, Google finds most of its pages when its robots crawl the web and jump from page to page via hyperlinks. The best way to ensure listing on Google is for a page to be linked from lots of other pages.
	AltaVista http://www.altavista.com Search results on AltaVista are powered by Yahoo! Search Technology. The search engine interface is very simple and easy to use.
	Yahoo! http://www.yahoo.com Yahoo! operates a search index and directory. It's directory, is very popular and ften a good starting point.
	Excite http://www.excite.com Excite uses a number of different search engines, such as Yahoo! and Google to deliver its results.