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Searching Objectives: Inquiry questions:
 * How does search work on the web?
 * identify the basic parts of a web search engine and define web search terms
 * learn to "read" a web search results page

Let's look at other Meta Search Engines

Noodle Tools:

[|http://www.surfwax.com] Searches against major engines or provides those who open free accounts the ability to chose from a list of hundreds. Using the "SiteSnaps" feature, you can preview any page in the results and see where your terms appear in the document. Allows results or documents to be saved for future use.
 * SurfWax**

**Clusty** [|http://www.clusty.com] Clusty, from Vivisimo, presents both standard web search results and Vivisimo's dynamic clusters that automatically categorize results. Clusty allows you to use Vivisimo's dynamic clustering technology on ten different types of web content including material from the web, image, weblog and shopping databases. You can access each type of search by simply clicking a tab directly above the search box. (Review: [|Reducing Information Overkill], SearchDay, Sept. 30, 2004).

[|http://www.dogpile.com] Popular metasearch site that sends a search to a customizable list of search engines, directories and specialty search sites, then displays results from each search engine individually. Owned by InfoSpace, which also owns MetaCrawler.
 * Dogpile**

[|http://www.mamma.com] Mamma is an unusual meta search engine in that it only searches a few major indexes -- the rest of the sites queried are directories or paid-placement services.
 * Mamma**

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Cybersmart Internet Searching:

Search Engines Sites Directory Sites Meta-Search Engine Sites
 * SweetSearch
 * Ask.com
 * Google
 * Live.com
 * Quintura for Kids
 * Clusty
 * About
 * Open Directory Project
 * Lycos
 * Yahoo! Directory
 * Dogpile
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Advanced Google Search Lesson from: @http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/fournets.htm

Student worksheet:

https://docs.google.com/View?id=dfvwdtqp_51gw7326d7 https://docs.google.com/View?id=dfvwdtqp_78cksf49cx