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

                                                                                                              

Search Using a …

Well-known sites

URL (Uniform Resource Locator) or Address

Good for

Directory

Search Engine or Spider or Crawler

 

These often contain directories as well

Yahoo!

www.yahoo.com

General  searches

Education World

www.education-world.com

   

Magellan Internet Guide

www.mckinley.com

   

   

Yahooligans

www.yahooligans.com

   

The Awesome Library

www.neat-schoolhouse.org/awesome.html

   

Fast Search

www.alltheweb.com

General searches

Alta Vista

www.altavista.com

Scientific topics

 

HotBot

 

www.hotbot.com

 

Uses ‘clever’ search tools

WebCrawler

www.webcrawler.com

 

Google

 

www.google.com

 

Keeps track of popular sites.  Try ‘I feel lucky’

Doras

www.doras.ie

Irish links

Ask Jeeves

www.ask.com

Ask in English sentences

Search Lycos

http://a2z.lycos.com

General

Metacrawler

Searches through a number of Engines for you

Mamma

Dogpile

Beaucoup

Douce France

www.mamma.com

www.dogpile.com

www.beaucoup.com

http://www.doucefrance.com/rubriques/recherche.html

Uses other engines

     

     

     

Ice Rocket

http://www.icerocket.com/

Another Meta-search

Vivisimo

http://vivisimo.com/

Clusters themes from a search

Kartoo

http://www.kartoo.com/

Interactive map of results

Mooter

http://www.mooter.com/moot

Clusters results visually

Specialised

Shareware

www.shareware.com

Search for software

Who Where

www.whowhere.lycos.com

Search for people

Research-It!

www.itools.com/research-it/research-it.html

For quotes, dictionaries…

Ask Jeeves for Kids

www.ajkids.com

School Projects

Kids Click

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick

School Projects

Amazon A9 Yellow Pages

http://a9.com/-/home.jsp?nc=1

Virtual walk thru US streets

MSN Search

http://www.msn.com/

Data from Encarta from Microsoft

Singing Fish from AOL

http://search.singingfish.com/sfw/home.jsp

Audio, video files. News, sport, MP3, Real ….

Personalised searcher

Within many search engine pages

 

Invent a ‘personality’ to logon – customized search for this ‘person’ using an IA (Intelligent Agent)

Recommended page of links

http://gofree.indigo.ie/~hallinan

Links to learning sites

 

 

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