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About Searching The Web |
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Richard A. Lawhern, Quick Search the Internet (guide to net-search resources written for VoS by a former professional data "miner"; Dr. Lawhern is also available by email to help beginners learn the Internet medium) |
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"Giving Something Back" Search Help (Richard "Red" Lawhern's page with resources to assist in using the net as an information source) |
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Homepage of "Red" Lawhern's Internet Search Help |
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Finding People On Line and Off |
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Personalized Search Help (ask an expert) |
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Guide to Searching the Internet (info on net searching; includes forms for submitting requests to multiple search engines) (Anadas Software & Internet Development) |
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Internet Searching Services (annotated guide to major search engines and indexes) (Palimpsest / Western Civilization) |
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Search Engine Watch (authoritative, deep resource on search engine submission tips, web searching tips, search engine ratings and reviews, and other related resources; designed as a guide both for users and Web professionals) (Danny Sullivan) |
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Understanding and Comparing Web Search Tools (Karen Campbell / Bush Library, Hamline U.) |
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Web Robots Database (info and resources related to automated Web searchers, including info on how to exclude robots from your site) (Martijn Koster) |
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Announcement Services For New Web Sites |
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Comp.Infosystems.Www.* Newsgroups |
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comp.infosystems.www.announce Archive (c.i.w.a is the main Usenet forum for announcing new Web pages; this archive of the newsgroup includes a search form) (Gerald Oskoboiny) |
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Recently Announced WWW Sites (gigantic archive of links mentioned in comp.infosystems.www.announce and related newsgroups) (Doc Dick Botting, Calif. State Univ., San Bernardino) |
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Net-Happenings (searchable HTML archive of the Net-Happenings list; includes form for submitting announcement of net resources to the list) |
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What's New Too! (Manifest Information Services) |
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"Best" Web Site Lists & Reviews |
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100Hot Sites (weekly ranked list of most frequently visited sites on the Web, excluding many academic sites) (Web21, Inc.) |
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Global Information Infrastructure U.S. Awards (to recognize "innovation and excellence in use of the 'Information Highway' ") |
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Internet Rank Engine ("the most popular, best quality web sites . . . relevant to your query") |
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JumpCity: The Best of the Web |
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Links2Go (a portal or meta-page that uses machine-learning and intelligent-agent technology to generate a selective list of links "most representative" of each of thousands of topics) |
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Linkstar Top Sites (HotOffice Technologies, Inc.) |
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Lycos Top 5% |
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Platinum 100 -- The Best Sites (Kevin Struck) |
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Point Communications Top Sites (metapage that rates pages on the Web according to various categories) |
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Suite101.com (Web directory that includes editorial columns/articles on specific areas and descriptions of editorially-chosen "best" pages) (i5ive communications, Inc.) |
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Tom Vassos' Web Diamonds (Brand X Internet Services, Inc.) |
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WWW Associates Top 10 Sites |
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Your Personal Net (Wolff New Media LLC.) |
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Major Commercial Web Search Engines & Indexes |
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Alta Vista |
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Homepage (major search engine) (AltaVista, Inc.) |
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Additional Feature: AltaVista's Automated Translation Service (Supply a URL and the site will return a machine-translation of all text on the target-page from French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish to English, or vice versa; will also directly translate any text you supply. Results are adequate only |
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Ditto (search engine that specializes in finding images by keyphrase or by category; advanced option allows for searching by image type, file size, color depth, and picture dimension; results include details about images) (Ditto.com) |
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Excite |
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Homepage (Excite, Inc.) |
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ExciteSeeing Tours ("tours" of online resources guided by Excite staff plus some guest-authorities or -celebrities) |
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FAST Search (a parallel-architecture based search engine that aims to exceed the coverage of other major search engines; has announced plans "to catalog the entire Internet – and then to keep up with the growth of the Web from that point forward") ( |
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Google (the new-generation fast engine that became popular in 1999-2000; features high relevancy of results and an interface designed for speed; ranks a result based on how many other pages on the Web link to it) (Google, Inc.) |
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HotBot (especially known for its simple interface to customized searching) (Wired Digital, Inc.) |
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InfoSeek (Infoseek Corp.) |
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LookSmart (Reader's Digest, Inc.) |
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Lycos |
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Homepage (Lycos, Inc.) |
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Lycos Top 5% |
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Magellan Guide (McKinley Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Excite, Inc..) |
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Northern Light (includes a supplemental database of proprietary resources accessible for a fee) (Northern Light Technology LLC) |
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Raging Search (a new-generation search engine introduced by AltaVista in 2000 to compete with Google; features fast engine with minimal graphics and new ranking algorithms) (AltaVista, Inc.) |
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Webcrawler (Excite, Inc.) |
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Yahoo (the best-known general-purpose index or "portal" to Web resources; not a search engine per se) (Yahoo! Inc.) |
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Multi-Search Sites (For Querying Multiple Search Engines) |
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All-in-One Search Page (100+ Internet search engines) (William Cross) |
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CUSI Multiple Web Search Indexes |
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Cyber 411 (Cyber Networks, Inc.) |
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Dogpile: A Multi-Engine Search Tool (Siprelle & Associates) |
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Guide to Searching the Internet (Anadas Software & Internet Development) |
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Highway 61 (The Virtual Mirror) |
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The Internet Sleuth (Internet Business Connection) |
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LincOn! (portal site; "the largest collection of search utilities on the Internet and the only site that uses icon's and logo's as its guide to Websites") (David F. Broer, LincOn.com Inc.) |
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MetaCrawler (go2net, Inc.) |
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Needle in a Cyberstack: The InfoFinder (John Albee) |
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SavvySearch (Daniel Dreilinger) |
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W3 Search Engines (U. Geneva) |
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Other Web Search Engines & Indexes |
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Aliweb (Nexor, Ltd.) |
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Badger SoftWerks Reference Desk (Badger SoftWerks) |
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CollegeSurfer.com ("the search engine for college students") |
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CyberDewey (David A. Mundie) |
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Encyberpedia: A Living Encyclopedia (Monte Cristo Network) |
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Find-It! (iTools) |
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Galaxy (TradeWave Corp.) |
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Green Eggs Report (a powerful way to search a topical or social "context" on the web for relevant sites; this is the front end of an automated URL collector that picks up URLs mentioned on Usenet newsgroups; choose a newsgroup and see a live page of the l |
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LinkStar |
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OpenText (search form is at bottom of page; has become a business-centered search site) (Open Text Corp.) |
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Reference.com (InReference, Inc.) |
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Starting Point (Starting Point L.L.C.) |
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Search For Personal Home Pages |
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Ahoy! The Homepage Finder (Jonathan Shakes, Marc Langheinrich, Oren Etzioni) |
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Search! Personal Home Pages (Farfan) |
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Search For Web Discussion Forums |
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Forum One |
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Reference.com (InReference, Inc.) |
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