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To enter a query into a search, just type in a few descriptive words and hit the 'enter' key (or click on the Search button) for a list of relevant web pages. Since the search only returns web pages that contain all the words in your query, refining or narrowing your search is as simple as adding more words to the search terms you have already entered. Your new query will return a smaller subset of the pages the search found for your original "too-broad" query.

Choosing Keywords

Try the obvious first. If you're looking for information on Picasso, enter "Picasso" rather than "painters".

Use words likely to appear on a site with the information you want. "Luxury hotel dubuque" gets better results that "really nice places to spend the night in Dubuque".

Make keywords as specific as possible. "Antique lead soldiers" gets more relevant results than "old metal toys".

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  • 1. Google

Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford Ph.D. candidates, who developed a technologically advanced method for finding information on the Internet.

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Google focuses exclusively on delivering the best search experience on the World Wide Web. Through innovative advances in search technology, Google helps users find the information they're looking for quickly and effectively. The company delivers services through its own web site at www.google.com, and by licensing its search technology to commercial sites.  Google's mission is to organize the world's information, making it universally accessible and useful.

  • 2. Yahoo

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Yahoo! began as a student hobby and evolved into a global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, find and access information and purchase things. The two founders of Yahoo!, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in a campus trailer in February 1994 as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet. Before long they were spending more time on their home-brewed lists of favorite links than on their doctoral dissertations. Eventually, Jerry and David's lists became too long and unwieldy, and they broke them out into categories. When the categories became too full, they developed subcategories ... and the core concept behind Yahoo! was born.

  • 2. Inktomi - Powers MSN, AOL, NBCi, LookSmart

Inktomi is headquartered in Foster City, California, with offices in North America, Asia and Europe. The company's customer and partner base includes such leading companies as America Online, Compaq, Excite@Home, Hewlett Packard Company, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph, RealNetworks and Sun Microsystems.

Inktomi develops and markets network infrastructure applications for network service providers and enterprises that are essential to network infrastructure, enabling network operators and end users to easily publish, retrieve, manage, and distribute information in a cost efficient and effective manner.

  • 4. Excite / LookSmart

The market for residential broadband services is projected to grow to 47 million users by 2005* from less than 6 million in 2000. Excite@Home is the leader in broadband, with more than 3 million worldwide subscribers to its @Home service. The @Home service is a complete package of always-on, high-speed connectivity, Excite multimedia content, client software, customer support and applications such as e-mail. The service is delivered via the "last-mile" infrastructures of Excite@Home's cable partners - companies such as AT&T, Cox and Comcast - which give Excite@Home a potential reach of 64 million homes worldwide.

  • 5. AltaVista

AltaVista, which means "a view from above", was inspired by the creation of big ideas and a fascination with keeping track of information. During the spring of 1995, scientists at Digital Equipment Corporation's Research lab in Palo Alto, CA, devised a way to store every word of every page on the entire Internet in a fast, searchable index. This lead to the development of the first searchable, full-text database on the World Wide Web.

  • 6. ODP  - Open Directory Project

The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.

  • 7. Fast - Powers Lycos, AllTheWeb

Terra Lycos's mission is to become the world's leading online destination. Through a unique platform that combines the benefits of the convergence of Internet services and next-generation communication technologies with the broadest, most comprehensive array of popular products and services, Terra Lycos provides users a compelling network of Web brands and gives advertisers access to a vast and diverse audience.

FAST's technology is based on more than a decade of innovative research at the prestigious Norwegian Institute of Technology. FAST has a staff of 120 research and development engineers, more than 40 of whom hold doctorate degrees. Their combined experience totals over 1000 man-years of software development.

  • 8. Northern Light

Northern Light began in September 1995 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to address the shortcomings of conventional search engines, including the lack of organization and quality information. David Seuss, CEO of Northern Light, summarizes Northern Light this way: "The Web is the ultimate expression of the problem of too much data and not enough information. Northern Light is making a wholly original contribution to solving this problem by improving the ability of Web searchers to focus on what is relevant and of high quality."

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