The website has been around since 1991 at CERN inGeneva, and is always recently updated, as it showed on towards the bottom of the screen. The last update it received wasMarch 2, 2008. It is ran by Tim Berners- Lee, the creator of HMTL and it is the oldest catalogue of the Web.at CERN in Geneva. It is also ran by various other maintainers that focus on their own page, making a large chain of people working together to keep the website functioning.
website address: http://vlib.org/
Strenghts:
* The website is informative and easy to navigate
* It provides a variety of databases in numerous amounts of topics
* The results that came back were informative
Weaknesses:
* Provides a bit too much information to go through
* Some information wasn't exactly what I was looking for
Basic Searching:
* It works when you do search engine math and Boolean. You are able to get a decent amount of pages when entering in phrases and such.
Advance Search:
* To go into the advance search you can enter what sort of document type you are looking for
* pick the option of exact word forms
* it is not case sensitive
Field Searching:
* many of the items that I used to search for topics came back in organized items with specific words highlighted in yellow according to keywords.
Stop Words:
* WWW Virtual Library searches most phrases with quotations and regular + and - signs but comes up with very detached results that contain sentences with the world "and".
Overall Evaluation:
This search engine was informative, user friendly and able to pull up some information about the topic that I was looking for. If I was going to rate this wesite from 1-10 I would have to say that it's probably a 7 because the site didn't give as many pages of results as I would have liked. However, the website still produces enough options for someone to find at least some useful information for your research.

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had never used AltaVista before today. I found the search engine very easy to use and found many more websites than I had found before while using google. What is also great about AltaVista is that when you type in what you are looking for you can also receive images, video and recent news. This tool will be extremely helpful when it comes to needing those "extras" for my paper. On the advanced section of AltaVista I found this also to be helpful because with my topic I have to be extremely narrowed and this function allowed me to do so. The one thing that I did not like about Alta Vista was that when I typed in certain topics the number of hits did not display. During some of my topic research everything popped up on my screen, from buying a tracking dog to the origins of the original working dogs. This is where the advanced function really helped. I am looking forward to using this search engine again.

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This website is a network organization. It is an educational subject directory dealing with online degree programs, and preparing for college admissions testing to help you prepare for entrance exams. It tells about college admissions, state by state, and gives financial aid information including loans, FAFSA and grants.

It was copyrighted 1998-2008.

It uses Google as a search engine which was easy to navigate.

Some of the links didn't exist or were not available.

It stated that there were monthly resource updates, but no updates have been done since 7-2007.

This website did contain alot of information.

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