The predominant method utilized to accumulate information on this Web Site was the prodigious use of Search Engines. The Search Engines offered here are some of the most effective available on the internet. You can search the Web for information, images, videos, music, FTP, news, and social media. Google, Yahoo, Bing, Gigablast, MSN Live Search, and Duck Duck Go are the most frequented General Search Engines on the Internet. The best MetaSearch Engines (they incorporate the work product of many search engines into their search results) are PolyMeta, Dogpile, IxQuick, Yippy, WebCrawler and ZapMeta. Reference searches utilize Inquiry Engines such as Ask.com; InfoPlease and Answers.Com - giving you access to Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Thesauri, Almanacs, and copious other resources, as does Merriam-Webster and Wikipedia. Bartleby provides everything needed to negotiate the world of literature, the Great Books, Poetry, Quotations, and a huge reference section including Encyclopediae, Dictionaries, and Thesauri. ChaCha is a human-powered resource that gives real-time answers online or by phone via dialing, texting or mobile apps. Reference.com provides a dictionary, a thesaurus and links to hundreds of reference sites. Specialty Search Engines are appropriate when focusing on a particular category of search (news, images, music, videos, medicine, law, Classified Advertisements, Russian Search Powerhouse Yandex, politics & policy, the pioneering Open Directory Project, Internet & Computers, telephone numbers for people and businesses from WhitePages.Com and Verizon SuperPages, etc.).
Leary about Big Brother? National Security Agency documents outed in May 2013 revealed that the U.S. government is “tapping directly into the central servers” of major Internet services as part of a secret program called PRISM. Launched in 2007, when Congress passed the Protect America Act of 2007, an amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Security Act (FISA), PRISM gave legal immunity to companies when they complied with U.S. intelligence agencies, enabling those agencies to monitor citizens without a warrant. As per The Guardian and The Washington Post, PRISM snooping by the NSA and FBI extends to Microsoft, Google, YouTube, Yahoo, Facebook, Skype, Apple, and others. Just after the story broke, battalions of web searchers and app users turned to search engines that don't identify or collect data on users. Utilization of Duck Duck Go, IxQuick and StartPage exploded - as they don't archive the personally identifying information sought by the Federal snoopsters. Be advised!
If you aren't comfortable with the English Language use the Yahoo Babel Fish Engine, the Ectaco Online Dictionary, the FreeTranslation.com (SDL International), the Word Reference or the ImTranslator translation engines to Translate any Content into a variety of other languages. You can translate a word, a phrase, a paragraph, or the whole site if you prefer. Just type or paste the target text into the box and "POOF". You can also Search the Gmca Site for site-specific content or the entire internet using Google, FreeFind, Bing, Site Level whatUseek, or Yippy.
BTW...There are Specialty Search Engines in the Entertainment Section of the GMCA Web Site that can give you information about TV listings, movie times, movie reviews and general entertainment info! NEED A DOCTOR? Click Here to access a medical search engine on the Main Page that can help you locate a local physician (specialists included) affiliated with Holy Cross Hospital (with credentials). NEED A LAWYER? Click Here to get one in the exact area of law that you need! Search for maps or get directions on the Maps and Directions Page.
General Search Engines
Google
Google is one of the best Search Engines on the internet (My Personal Favorite). Yahoo!, AOL, and other search heavyweights use Google technology in their search offerings. You can search the entire internet (Search WWW) or search the content on this Web Site (Search galtmile.com). Just place a dot in the "radio button" of your choice.
