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Here you will learn how to find things, information, and people on the net. You can find a lot of information from search engines.
One of the best is MetaCrawler. This is not as Lycos, Altavista, InfoSeek, and others. However, it does search a number of the search engines for you and it is rather fast.
Net Directories are NOT search engines though some are searchable. One of the older but not so well-known any more is Yanoff's List . Everyone knows about Yahoo.
If it is people that you seek, Four11 and Switchboard are the two links for you.
Still don't know that perfect search engine after all this? Well, here are a couple of lists of search engines. Niche Engine Guide and A1 Index to WWW should get you going in good order.
If you only have email, one can do a WWW search by sending mail to a WEB/Mail Gateway asking it to send a file from Lycos or WebCrawler. This information is provided in the file, Rankin.txt, provided at the class. This file is available from MIT with text in the body of "send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email" or on the WEB at http://202.41.100.93/~unicefd/dbobfram.htm
Using USENET can be quite a chore or it can be quite easy. Setting up the browser, as you can see, for news groups is time consuming. News groups can be very informative and well worth the time it takes for this chore.
If you do not have time to read all the news groups for your interests, consider InReference and Dejanews where both will give you a searchable way to get information regarding your favorite topic.
For USENET searches by email, one can use Reference.COM mentioned already or send email to Vigilant .
Some of the best information on the Net is on email-only mailing lists. Two resources are available for finding these lists. They are Liszt: Searchable Directory of e-Mail Discussion Groups and Blue Marble where one would send the command search "keyword" where the keyword is the subject in which one has interest.
Here you will learn how to find files you wish and also how to download files you find. These are just four of many software repositories. One can also search the WEB for the name of the program one seeks.
| Stroud's CWSApps List - Newest Apps | NONAGS | TuCows at the University of Oklahoma | Shareware.Com |
This information has been glean from months of surfing and from resources like Dr. Bob's Accessing the Internet by E-Mail. One e-mail resource would be Dr. Bob's Internet Tourbus which is a free twice-weekly adventure out onto the Information Infobahn in a not-too-crowded, old (but still running) email bus, complete with squirrels and Southern Words of the Day. Put "Subscribe Internet Tourbus firstname lastname" in the body of your email.
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