Search the Net

Google Search

Deja Search through newgroups

• Deja Page (in its old format)

Yahoo Search

Alta Vista Search

Alta Vista Advanced Search Page

• Go to the page (more complicated than simple search)
• raging.com apparently a simpler, faster version of Alta Vista

How to use Search Engines

• Search engine effective habits, what certain engines are good for
• Going beyond the usual top seven search engines
• Article about search engines

Search Engine Publicity

• Search Engine Publicity
• Advice for Webmasters on searching anmd meta tags
• Checking Your URL at search engines
• searchenginewatch.com/ has good info.
• How To Use Meta Tags

• Register your site at: www.fg-a.com/
• Submit-It
  Submit-It Free allows you to post your web site
  to over 20 places online from one place, for free.
  This is a come-on for a fee-based service.
• SelfPromotion.com
  Similar to Submit-It Free, except that you can submit
  to many more sites
• Do it yourself CGI script to submit your site
• searchenginewatch.com/
  tips, information, reviews
• www.websitegarage.com/
  to maintain and tune up site.
• www.fg-a.com/

Other Search Related Info

• Alta Vista Home Page: DEC World Wide Web Search Engine
• Hotbot, a search engine created by Wired; said to be good
• Google, a search engine at Stanford
  said to be good when you have lots of hits;
  not so good for obscure topics
• Northern Light
  wide coverage according to Nature
• DejaNews taps into the Usenet global electronic bulletin board network, makes a copy of every message, and stores and indexes them for easy public retrieval.
• Excite
• Lycos
• InfoSeek
• www.findmail.com stores messages from mailing lists.
• www.reference.com track mailing lists as well as newsgroups
• Infoseek
• Knowledge Adventure Encyclopedia (not very good: about 6th grade level)
• FTP search, Trondheim, Norway; apparently searches for all FTPable files
• The FTP Search engine at: ftpsearch.ntnu.no/ftpsearch
• MapQuest: graphically "zoom in"
  on the location of someone by their street address

The "Invisible Web"

• Direct Search
  links to the search interfaces of resources
  that contain data not easily
  or entirely searchable/accessible
• Invisibleweb.com
• Librarians' Index
  of sites that are useful to reference librarians

Finding People, Telephone numbers, or other Info

• Look up telephone numbers at switchboard.com
• AT&T Lab's AnyWho: telephone number seearch: e.g. 510-644-xxxx
• 555-1212.com, includes reverse look-up
• wyp.net: find anyone by cross-referencing
  their phone number, name, street address (shut down for legal reasons)
• Finding People on the Internet
• infospace.com: find e-mail address
• www.four11.com: e-mail/phone
  Simsong says to use Four11 through
  Yahoo, which formats the output more nicely
• www.whowhere.com: e-mail/phone/address
• bigfoot.com: e-mail/phone/address/map
  Simsong says Bigfoot is the only service
  that clearly indicates when each record was updated.
• www.abii.com: phone/address/map

Finding People, updated to July 2000

• Lycos
• switchboard.com
• infospace.com

• Yahoo Guide
• How to search Web via Yahoo
• Gnuhoo
• How to search the World Wide Web
• Lycos Fuzzy WEB Index
• World Wide Web Search Engines
• Massachusetts Government Links
• US Federal Gov't Web Locator
• US Patent and Trademark Office
• Search for Trademark Acceptable Identifications
  and index of Goods and Services along with their identification code.
• Mecklermedia's PC Webopaedia
  Defines technical definitions of computer terms
• PC Today Online computer hardware shopping center
• DAKCO PC computer hardware shopping center
• GNN Network navigator
• Fertility rates, etc. at www.census.gov
• More from www.census.gov
• CIA World Factbook, country listing

Finding Books

• www.amazon.com
• Library Of Congress
  Operates from 4:35am to 9:30 p.m.
  Mondays through Fridays Eastern time,
  with shorter hours on the weekends.
• Advanced Book Exchange
  for finding out of print books.

Job Hunting

• www.linuxresources.com/employ/index.html
  For people working with free software.

  The following are ``Normal internet based job search tools...''

• www.dice.com -- very west coast oriented
• www.headhunter.net www.headhunter.net -- free for both advertizers and job hunters
• www.careermosaic.com -- mostly very large companies

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