rch engines produced American football, college, semi-pro and pro football, others produced soccer web sites. Engines like lycos and alta vista gives a choice of searching by several means, category, web sites, web pages and news and media. One search engine, infoseek produces 4,573,438 different web pages to search. The topic was then narrowed down to the Dallas Cowboys. The search engines produced information on the Dallas Cowboys, the city of Dallas, the weather of Dallas, and the shopping of the Dallas area malls. The topic then is narrowed down even further by asking for the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. Again the selection of web pages and sites becomes smaller on the topic of football but more sites on other topics like cheerleading and different squads appeared. Finally, the topic of Pamela Jagger, a member of the 1998-1999 squad, was inputted. The majority of the different engines produced only several sites on the topic while others explored the x rated sites. It is here the users most be aware of what each search engine searches for and what the user wants. This paper has learned that the most user friendly search engine was yahoo. It produced a wide variety of topics, while the topic was narrowed down, it was if the engine knew what was being searched for and linked the user to them. Each person must choose the search engine that fits their needs. This is again show why the internet will last, it meets the needs of its users. ...
