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Article: With specialty search engines.(searching the web)
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- Teacher Librarian
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2004 Ken Haycock & Associates, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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A specialty search engine, sometimes called a topical or vertical search engine, searches a specially-created database limited to a particular subject. Specialty search engines fall into two main categories: service or subject-specific. Specialty service search engines provide services that are often not available from larger general search engines. Subject-specific search engines search a database tailored to a particular subject. Depending on your area of interest and the type of information you are seeking, specialty search engines can provide more relevant results more quickly than a general purpose search engine such as Google or Yahoo.
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