I. Types of search sites
	A. Directories
		1. organized by subjects but not all inclusive
		2. use the concept of general to more specific, ie; 
                 Literature -> Medieval -> Arthurian
		3. may include a search engine to search within their database
		4. usually sites have been viewed by a human and placed in subject 
                categories and maybe ranked as to usefulness
		5. sites include:Yahoo, Magellan and Galaxy
	B. Search Engines
		1. gather site information by sending bots(also called spiders or agents) 
                to get key words from sites on the Net
		2. key words and URLs are put into a searchable data base 
		3. the search engine then uses the terms and phrases you enter to search for
		   useful site URLs
	C. Meta Search Engines
		1. send your key words to multiple search sites and directories
		2. results are based on what has been found in the searches done on 
                these sites
		3. some organize the results(hits) by search sites some don't
II. Internet Search Tips(General)
	A. Phrases
		1. use quotation marks or parentheses around the phrase to tie it together.
			Example "King Arthur" or "Washington Redskins"
		2. check the site your on to see which is appropriate 
	B. Capitalization
		1. don't use capitals unless you are looking for a proper name
		2. most will work for proper names even if the name is not capitalized
			Example - "King Arthur" is a narrower search than " king arthur" 
	C. +/- Signs:
		1. use the plus + sign in front of words that you DO want to appear 
                in your results
		2. use the minus - sign in front of words that you do NOT want to appear 
                in your results
			Examples- +"king Arthur" +Mallory -Lancelot. This should return pages 
                containing the terms King Arthur and Mallory but not Lancelot
	D. Boolean operators:
		1. some sites(especially the advanced search areas on sites) allow the use of:
			AND, OR, NOT and NEAR
		2. AND acts much like the + and joins words together, that is, it makes 
                the search look for both words on the page
		3. OR makes the search to look for either of the terms in the documents 
                it is searching for:
			Example: Lancelot  OR Guenevere, searches for either of these names on 
                a document
		4. NOT prevents the search from looking for a specific term.
			Example: Lancelot NOT Guenevere, searches for documents that contain 
                the term Lancelot,but does not contain the word Guenevere 
                in the document. This narrows the search.
		5. NEAR searches for terms that are located within a certain number of 
                words of each other.
			Example: Lancelot NEAR Guenevere may return only documents that have 
               the two terms within 10 words of each other
	E. Spelling and Wild Cards:
		1. Be sure you have the word or phrases spelled correctly.
		2. Take into account alternate spellings of words especially American versus 
                 British such as;color and colour , labor and labour or center and centre.
		3. Some sites allow wild cards (*) so that you can hunt for Arthu*  which would
                get you: Arthur, Arthurian, Arthuriana, etc.
 
(Proper use of all the the above will  help you have more success in getting just the 
information you want. Searching the Internet is an art not a science and it takes 
practice to get it right. Experiment with different terms and operators on 
different search sites.)