Abstract:
The paper discusses search engines and its use by postgraduate students of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Five research questions were formulated to guide the study while descriptive survey was adopted for the study. Data was generated using questionnaire to find out level of exposure and extent of use of search engines and its implications to the research output of post graduate students. Data was finally analyzed using frequency tables and percentages. It was found among many other things that post graduate students are not very much exposed to search engines available in the web; and so do not use it in their various literature search. This was attributed to their poor exposure to the Internet and various available search engines. On this note, it was recommended that the need for use of search engines relevant to their fields must be emphasized and therefore should be exposed to them thoroughly through lecturers, seminars, conference, etc. It was also recommended that postgraduate students should employ self help through frequent use of internet and reading of textbooks to as to be aware of different search engines relevant to their field and then have a quality research.
