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*[http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/vl/google/googlcont.htm Internet Research Using Google Advanced Search]
==Using Yahoo and other Search Engines to Find Good but Less Popular but Google materialInternet Material==
Although I find the Google search engine to be a helpful took, using the Yahoo search engine can help you quickly find good material which is less popular on the internet and thus has less inbound links (Google uses inbound links as a criteria for ranking high more prominently than many search engines). In addition, you can support your favorite non-profit organizations using the [http://www.goodsearch.com/ Goodsearch service]. Please be aware that when you use Goodsearch, the search results are generally more skewed to websites which have a more politically conservative nature (at least that is what I have found in my limited experience using the Goodsearch option).
Although Google has a much bigger market share of the internet market than its various competitors and you definitely want to have your internet material rank high at Google, I do think that it can be helpful doing internet research to not put all your eggs in the Google basket.
I have also found that the [http://www.cuil.com/ Cuil] search engine can produce relevant results and therefore good results. However, although this statement is based on very limited data I did find that this search engine might be more skewed towards websites which have a more politically liberal nature as I found that a well known conservative website (and a fairly well known conservative website) search results could not be found by me even when I searched for the organizations name. I am not sure if the Cuil search engine is doing this as a result of censorship or as the result of what I consider incompetence. Nonetheless, in a independent test it was found to be a search engine which provides very relevant search results (see: [http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?sample=16&qprid=38&qpcustom=Cuil Cuil Stumbles on Launch, but Beats Google in Key Relevancy Metric]
==Finding Excellent Material Can Create Publicity and Inbound Links to Your Material==
