"Usenet" provides a huge selection of discussion groups, and has been around many years, long before there was a World Wide Web or Web Browsers.

One way to find messages posted to a discussion group, based on word search, is to use the following, previously referred to as dejanews:

• http://groups.google.com/

The term "Meta Search" refers to search tools that rely on multiple indexes of Web pages. These are sometimes called "Meta Crawlers".

• http://www.copernic.com
  
• http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/
  
• http://www.dogpile.com
  
• http://www.metacrawler.com/index_metafind.html
  
• http://www.metafetcher.com

If you want to learn more about the various search engines and indexes, visit the following Web site:

• http://www.searchenginewatch.com

• http://tinyurl.com
      Some links are just too long to include in e-mail
• http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html
      Download the free Firefox browser.
• http://www.opera.com/
      Download the free Opera browser.