Here you will find some tools for searching the World Wide Web
space. These tools, called 'search
engines' in webanese, take a single keyword or a
combination of them, and look for documents on the WWW which might
contain those keywords. In a sense, these search engines operate like
most computerized library searches.
One word of advice - be
creative
in the keyword search. If one keyword search is not very successful,
do try and use other related terms or a combination of those for a
new search.
Some search engines, like AltaVista,
will look for the keyword(s) all over
the Web and will then return the results in form of all the documents
that contain that keyword. Such a search requires plenty of sifting
to look for relevant documents. For example, a keyword search for
"Plains Archaeology" will return all documents that contain either "
Plains" or "Archaeology" or both. You might get references to "Plains
Telecommunications Co." or to "Archaeology in Belize," neither of
which are relevant in the present context. The plus point for such
searches is that their range is far greater than other search
engines. The alternative is search engines like
Infoseek or
Excite.
These search engines will rate the returned queries by a confidence
level percentage which provides a handy guide to the relevance of a
document to the keyword search.
You can go to the
Microsoft
search page to access a variety of search engines.
Here are links to some of the more often used search engines.
Happy browsing!
Besides these catch-all search engines, some
archaeology sites have their site-specific search tools. Listed below
are search engines from some archaeology sites. You can search these
sites directly from here.
http://pegasus.acs.ttu.edu/~wurlr/findan.html - Center for
Anthropology and Science Communication
A general starting point for locating archaeologists,
biological anthropologists, cultural anthropologists, or linguists in
the United States.
Email Shesh
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