The World Wide Web can be a virtually limitless source of helpful information -- if you know how and where to look for it. This easy-to-use, time-saving guide describes, evaluates, and explains how to locate information with popular search tools such as WebCrawler and HotBot that use automatic indexing software to efficiently and effectively discover, harvest, and index Web pages. It will direct you -- and your users -- to the best tool for finding the information you need without having to waste the many frustrating hours of additional search time required by older methods. Each description contains information about who created it, the size of its database, the spiderbot or harvester it uses to retrieve information, how often it is updated, what is indexed and how this is determined, and the step-by-step methods to find information with each. Additional chapters offer a comparison of the various search engines, a look at the economics of search engines, an annotated listing of mega-engines, a glossary and a handy chart that summarizes the best and worst feature of each search engine.