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There are over 3000 search engines available on the Internet.

Pictorial Search Engines: You can check out Alfy at

http://www.alfy.com/Cool_Sites/

or MamaMedia at http://www.mamamedia.com/

The search engines we are presently encouraging teachers and students to make use of are:

Teoma http://www.teoma.com

Google http://www.google. com/

(you can create an automatic toolbar incorporating Google by clicking on "Google Toolbar")

Meta-Search Engines search a number of search engines simultaneously.

You would only use a meta-Search engine if you are searching for an obscure topic/issue or you had poor results from the two suggested search engines above

The two meta-Search engines we have found the most useful are

• Copernic http://www.copernic.com

• Dogpile (unfortunate name), http://www.dogpile.com/