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The dominant search engine is Google and you can get a Google Bar to add to your favourite browser. Mozilla Firefox even comes with a simple Google search bar already installed. Alternatively, you can bookmark the Google website (http://www.google.com) and start your search from there. Finding text is easy. Just type it in to Google bar and hit Enter, but what if you are looking for a picture?.
Go to the website (http://www.google.com) and you will see a menu Web Images Groups News more>>. Click on Images, enter what you want to find and hit Enter. While you're on the Google site, check out what is hidden behind that menu entry more>>. You will find an assortment of special searches that you can have Google undertake.
Google Suggest
There are many search engines offering different ways to search, searches of specialist databases, clustered results and other enticements. Perhaps the best known is Google which has become the search engine of choice for Firefox. Even with Google's powerful search algorithms, finding just what you want can be difficult.
A new service from Google tries to suggest what you are searching for as you type. I tried it. As soon as I typed 'p' it suggested 'Paris Hilton'. Nope. Not as rich or spoilt as her. Added an 'e'. Google suggested 'people search'. 'Pet' yielded 'petsmart'. Then I got 'Peter Pan'. It was not until I had typed 'peter ca' that 'Peter Campbell' came into view and then there were still more than 5 million results!
Give it a try. It is still, at the time of writing, in beta and can only be accessed by going to the following URL: http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1
Turbo10
No one search engine, no matter how good its search algorithms, indexes everything out there on the Internet. That, in itself, is a good reason to use more than one search engine.
Many search engines skim across the surface and do not index the contents of publically available databases. Others don't index PDF files.
Turbo10 provides the means whereby you can search with up to ten search engines of your choice and have it sort the results by relevance. Its creators claim that it is the best means of searching those databases. Check it out. It may just be what you are looking for.
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