Searching Shortcuts

General topics: Try searching directories like Yahoo Directory for a list of subject related sites. Specific topics:  When your topic is very specific or hard to find, use a large search engine like Google or Yahoo or a meta-search engine like Dogpile.  Use quotation marks around your topic when you want the words to appear next to each other in the search results. Other neat shortcuts to information like maps, weather, word definitions: http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts