The Internet – What’s it
for? Search Me!
“What
sort of day did you have at the office, dear?”
“Catastrophic! The computer broke down and we all had to
think!”
Edward Phillips quoted in Computer Quips by Helen Exley, Exley Publishing Ltd. , 1998, UK and USA.
How to Search on the Internet
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Search Using a … |
Well-known sites |
URL (Uniform Resource Locator) or Address |
Good for |
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Directory Search Engine or Spider or Crawler These often contain directories as well |
Yahoo! |
General searches |
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Education World |
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Magellan Internet Guide |
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Yahooligans |
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The Awesome Library |
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Fast Search |
General searches |
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Alta Vista |
Scientific topics |
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HotBot |
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Uses ‘clever’ search tools |
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WebCrawler |
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Keeps track of popular sites. Try ‘I feel lucky’ |
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Doras |
Irish links |
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Ask Jeeves |
Ask in English sentences |
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Search Lycos |
General |
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Metacrawler Searches through a number of Engines for you |
Mamma Dogpile Beaucoup Douce France |
Uses other engines “ “ “ |
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Ice Rocket |
Another Meta-search |
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Vivisimo |
Clusters themes from a search |
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Kartoo |
Interactive map of results |
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Mooter |
Clusters results visually |
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Specialised |
Shareware |
Search for software |
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Who Where |
Search for people |
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Research-It! |
For quotes, dictionaries… |
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Ask Jeeves for Kids |
School Projects |
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Kids Click |
School Projects |
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Amazon A9 Yellow Pages |
Virtual walk thru US streets |
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MSN Search |
Data from Encarta from Microsoft |
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Singing Fish from AOL |
Audio, video files. News, sport, MP3, Real …. |
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Personalised searcher |
Within many search engine pages |
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Invent a ‘personality’ to logon – customized search for this ‘person’ using an IA (Intelligent Agent) |
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Recommended page of links |
Links to learning sites |
Page created by Neil Hallinan