McDowell County Public
Library
90 West Court Street, Marion, NC 28752
828-652-3858
Libraries....the
very best place to start!
Search Engines
There are many good search engines. Here are a few worth trying:
Altavista is vast and allows searching for images.
Ask.com uses innovative search technologies.
WolframAlpha computational knowledge engine
Dogpile searches several engines at once
Excite returns a few relevant sites with good summaries.
Google is easy to use and gets great results.
HotBot won a contest beating 6 major search engines.
Infospace has reverse phone # lookup feature.
KidsClick is created by librarians for kids!
Metacrawler searches several engines at once.
Yahoo! has yellow pages, maps, people search & more.
Yahoo! for Kids was created just for kids!
Also consider trying subject directories, which let you browse by topic.