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Search Engines

News Search

News Search

Whether you are interested in glancing at the national headlines or catching the latest breaking local story, you can stay informed and up to date with a wide variety of sites to choose from. Here are just a few: CNN.com ( http://www.cnn.com) Presented by the popular cable television network CNN. Popular stories and breaking news [...]

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Search Engines

Search Engines

Find the information you need quickly and easily by searching the entire World Wide Web using one of the major search engines. Google (http://www.google.com/) By far, the most widely used of the major search engines. If it’s on the internet, you are likely to be able to find it in a Google search. Do a [...]

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Image Search

Image Search

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think of all the writing you could save yourself by including graphics in your writing projects! Photographs and illustrations give sparkle and life to gray text pages. With the millions of images available on the Internet, there’s no reason for your publication to be blah. The sites below [...]

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Blog Search

Blog Search
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Blogs are a great way for everyday people to share information, ideas, experiences, expertise and opinions. Whether you want to start your own blog or just want to browse around at some others, we suggest trying out some of these sites: Tecnorati.com (http://technorati.com/) This specialized search engine allows users to search the internet for blogs [...]

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Local Search

Local Search

FACT: 82% of all web searches have a local component to them The following sites are great sources of information when you’re in your hometown, but are perhaps even more useful when you are on the road. As most travelers know, you can usually have more fun if you “go local,” discovering the places where [...]

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