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Searching the internet

Australian Search Engines

Australian Edu Sites Australian Gov sites All Australian sites

Children's Search Engines

Worldwide Search Engines

www.altavista.com – Altavista
One of the first web indexes and the first web search engine to have image, audio and video searching available.

www.ask.com – Ask.com
One of the major search engines, Ask.com provides answers to common questions and webpages with answers to less common ones.

www.lycos.com – Lycos
Searches the web or you can limit to only search for images, audio or video easily.

www.alltheweb.com – AlltheWeb.com search
AlltheWeb combines a large searchable index with an extremely fast search feature.

www.dmoz.com – Open Directory Project search directory
The Open Directory Project is a human edited directory of the Web available in numerous languages including Arabic, Chinese, English, Hebrew and Slovenian.

www.dogpile.com – Dogpile Search Engine
Dogpile searches through a number of search engines and presents the results from each in an easy to read format.

www.google.com – Google
Google is the world’s most popular search engine with a simple format and easy to use controls.

Google also supports country only searches through many separate country versions. A small sample are listed below.

www.google.com.au – Google Australia (English)
www.google.co.nz – Google New Zealand (English)
www.google.ae – Google United Arab Emirates (Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Hindi)
www.google.com.sa – Google Saudi Arabia (Arabic)
www.google.com.tw – Google Taiwan (Chinese)
www.google.fr – Google France (French)
www.google.mu/fr – Google Mauritius (French)
www.google.de – Google Germany (German)
www.google.co.il – Google Israel (Hebrew)
www.google.co.in – Google India (Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Telagu, Merathi)
www.google.it – Google Italy (Italian)
www.google.co.jp – Google Japan (Japanese)
www.google.co.kr – Google Korea (Korean)

Video Search

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Search Strategies

Before beginning an Internet search take a few moments to consider your search strategy.
Do you want to search for sites from Australia or overseas? See below for a list of Australia specific search engines. What keywords will you use? Think about what you need in the form of a question and then use those words, avoiding the commonly used words. Look at your results for tips about other related keywords to use or not to use (Some search engines allow NOT or - to be used to exclude some sites, eg in Google: use Wales -prince to exclude sites about the Prince of Wales when you want information about the place). Use apostrophes to search for a "phrase". If you would like to learn more about effective searching, read through some of the articles at Search Engine Watch.