The following sites will provide information on how to conduct a successful search on the internet

Search Engine Math: a guide to search strategies.

Searching and Search Engines: a nice list of traditional search engines, meta search engines, language specific engines and resources to help define your search.

Foreign Language Search Engines: a list of English, French, German and Spanish search engines. However, no AMELC languages! But this still may be useful in conducting research.

Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial. University of California, Berkeley, Teaching Library Internet Workshops

Barebones 101: A Tutorial: University of South Carolina Beaufort Library offers this basic searching tutorial.