Searching The Internet
Looking For Something,
or Someone? The Internet can be the quickest, and least expensive way to find
information...as long as you know how to use search engines efficiently. Remember,
the purpose is finding, not searching.
Here are a few tips for successful searching:
Use the "advanced search options."
This will allow the use of "Boolean operators" (AND, OR, NOT,
NEAR, +, -) to narrow the search. Experiment
with different search engines. Even though they are all similar, they all
have important differences.A search engine that
is quick, but returns 10,000 links may not be as effective as one that may be
slower but returns only 30 links. Find the search
engine that is best suited for your needs.
The Web
Alta
Vista Ask
Jeeves| Argus Clearinghouse |
- BizWiz| DisInformation
| Education World |
- Excite|Galaxy
| Go To| Hotbot| Infohiway
|
- Info Seek Guide| Jayde|
JumpCity| Linkcentre |
- Linkmaster| Linkmonster|
Lycos| Matilda |
Mamma.|
- Point|RBSE Spider|
Rex| SiteSeeker|Starting
Point |
- The Internet Sleuth| Web
Crawler| WWWomen |
- Yahoo| Yahooligans
Newsgroups
and mailing lists
- DejaNews|
Inter-Links| List of Lists| LISTSERV|
LISZT
-
Others
Acronym
Lookup| Dave
Central |
- Domain Name Search| FTP
Search| FOLDOC |
- Hytelnet| On-line
Books Page | Snoopie| Utrecht CS
News.Answers FAQs Archive |
- Who Where?| ZD Net
Software library
- Acronym
lookup
Search for acronyms and abbreviations.
- Ask
Jeeves
- Just type
a question and click "Ask!
- "For
example: Is it raining in Seattle?
-
- Ask Jeeves is human-powered search service that
- direct you to the exact page.
-
- Ask Jeeves For Kids
- http://www.ajkids.com/
Top
-
- Alta
Vista
- Definetly one of the largest search engines on the
web
- Do not use AND or OR to combine words, simply type
- a few words or phrases.To find a bed-time story:
- "fairy tale" +frog -dragon
- Argus
Clearinghouse
- Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides
- BizWiz
(strictly business-to-business)
- WWW sites that are registered with Access Business
Online.
- BizWiz will find any and all matches of words, phrases,
- contact names or other data.
- Dave
Central
- Search for software.
- DejaNews
Search the UseNet
- DisInformation
- the subculture search engine
- Delivers highly relevant results.
- Domain
Name Search
- This form will take key words and try to find the
domain
- (and possibly hosts) pertaining to that domain.
Example: Washington Missouri Louis
- Education
World
- A comprehensive source for education links on the
Internet.
- Excite
- Examples: Travel + Canada
Ford - car -automobiles
- Foldoc
On-line Dictionary of Computing
- FOLDOC is a searchable dictionary of acronyms, jargon,
- programming languages, tools, architecture, operating
- systems, networking, theory, conventions, standards,
- mathematics, telecomm, electronics, institutions,
- companies, projects, products, history, in fact anything
- to do with computing.
- FTP
Search
- Galaxy
- Go
To
- Hotbot
- Hytelnet
- Search the Hytelnet documents, each of which acts
as a
- telnet or tn3270 session gateway.
- Infohiway
- Infohiway delivers web addresses with a difference
- : Relational Links.
- InfoSeek
Guide
- Inter-Links
List of Discussion Groups (5900+ entries)
- Jaycee
- Links to some of the most popular and powerful search
- engines available.
- dumpsite
Web Site Reviews
- Linkcentre
- Enter complete or partial words. Do not use quotes,
AND, OR.
- Linkmaster help
- Linkmonster
- List
of Lists
- Searches for mailing lists.
To find parts of words, use an asterisk (*) to represent
- missing parts of the word. For example, if you enter
"world*"
- it will match "worldwide", "worlds",
etc. Similarly, "*world"
- would find "underworld", etc.
- LISTSERV
list reference
Searches for mailing lists (11,000+ entries).
- LISZT
Search listserv, listproc, majordomo and independently
- managed mailing lists (40000+ entries).
Examples: baseball
writ or litera or book
baseball or football
india not indiana
b*ball or f*ball
"bad art"
"art"
not (rock or game or tattoo)
- Lycos
- Matilda
SafeSurf Search Engine
(Multiple Word Search)
-
- Mamma.com
- Mamma is what we call a smart meta
search engine. Mamma will analyze your
- query and properly format the words for each source
it probes. Mamma
- will then organize
the results into a uniform format, and presents them by relevance and
source.
On-line
Books Page
- An annotated index of books whose full text is available
- on-line.
- Enter either a title or an author and press the appropriate
- Submit button.
- Point
Top 5% of web sites
- RBSE
Spider
- Rex
- SiteSeeker
from Pathfinder
- Search for articles, web sites and kid-safe web sites.
- Snoopie
- A very fast file finder!
- Starting
Point
- Switchboard
- Search for people and businesses.
- The
Internet Sleuth Over
3,000 searchable databases
- Utrecht
CS News.Answers FAQs Archive
- An archive of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- and other periodic, informative articles, posted in
the
- Usenet newsgroup news.answers.
You can use the booleans and, or, and not.
Web
Crawler
- WhoWhere?
Locating people and organizations on the Net
- World
Email Directory
More than 12.000.000 email addresses and
- more than140.000.000 business and phone
- addresses worldwide! To check your listing enter
- your email address in the first search field.
- WWWomen
- The premier search directory for women online.
- The search takes the word WWW Women recommends
- no more than 3 words for faster searches] you have
entered
- as a keyword and it searches the database within the
- Title of the site, the URL, or the summary statement.Note:
- the keyword MUST exist somewhere in the
- Title, URL, or summary statement.
- Yahoo
- Yahooligans
- The Web Guide for Kids! Designed for
- Web surfers ages 8 to 14.
- ZDNet
Software library
Top rated shareware.
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