·        Powerful Search Engines:                       By yage

      1.www.yahoo.com

     2.gbchinese.yahoo.com

3.www.sohu.com

      4.www.altavista.com

      5.www.infoseek.com

·        Comments:

The 1~5 titles mentioned above are very useful. Yahoo is the most popular one, most of us use it. In fact, yahoo is not a real search engine, but you can search what you want successfully enough. In yahoo web site, under the "search button" are a number of topics for you to choose which are well classified. If you do not want to input the keywords directly, you can click the relevant subject step by step to get some further information. "Altavista" is said to be the largest search engine in the world so far, which contains 140 thousand web sites. If you feel yahoo is not powerful enough, then you can try "altavista". "Infoseek" is a bit different because it seems to be prepared for specialists. Infoseek put more attention on business. Therefore, you’d better use  “infoseek” if you want to search for something to do with business.

    If you want some information in Chinese, your best choices are "gbchinese.yahoo.com" and “www.sohu.com”. The first one is popular all over  the world. The second one is very famous in China, not only for its quality bus also for its owner.

    The above search-tools are very useful especially in writing your research paper. A lot of information you want can be obtained by using them. Furthermore, it also can be used to find other useful information such as the timetable of the train, price list of air-tickets, news, etc. Those valuable information can make your life easier. 

·        E-mail box:

    At last, I’d like to say some words about the Email box. No matter whether you have one in China or not, since you’re abroad right now, you’d better set another one. This is because it is more convenient if you’ve got one  on "www.hotmail.com" or "www.yahoo.com". The procedure of applying an E-mail box is more or less the same everywhere. Firstly, click the “ sign up” button which is usually under the “ log in ” button. And click “ I agree ” button (do not read the long introduction). Then, carefully fill in the application form. Usually, if you miss one blank space, you’ll fail At last click “submit” button. If "hotmail ” or “yahoo ” tells you the name is already used by others, you can change into another one or choose one of the suggestions and submit again. After you knew that you’ve applied a mailbox, you’d better try it first.