Search the Internet

Our favorite internet search engines.  Google is still the best!

1. Google

2. Yahoo

3. Excite

4. MSN

5. Dogpile

6. Altavista

7. using InfoSeek:

8. Nerdworld

9. Lycos
10. Metacrawler - very thorough

Query Language

The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example:

information RCRA

finds documents containing 'land ban' or 'RCRA'

hazardous or RCRA

same as above

hazardous and RCRA

finds documents containing both 'hazardous' and 'RCRA'

hazardous not RCRA

finds documents containing 'hazardous' but not 'RCRA'

(hazardous not RCRA) and DOT

finds documents containing 'DOT', plus
'hazardous' but not 'RCRA'

generat*

finds documents containing words starting with 'generat'

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Revised: July 27, 2007.