Search engines are very large databases that contain information about web
pages. Search engines are automatically updated by special programs called "robots" or "spiders" that search the WWW
for new content and then report their findings to the database
. There are many different web search engines that you can use to do a search.
Below are links to a variety of different search engines. An important tip to remember is that different search engines contain links to different pages, so if you do not find
what you are looking for with one search engine
, try another.
Some of the more common search engines are: