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Engines||
Organizers of Web material, allowing key-word searches:
There are an estimated 800 million pages on the Web. (NYT,
7/8/1999)
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Northern Light -- largest coverage,
presorts results
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Altavista -- full text, newsgroup
search, photo finder
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HotBot -- large coverage; fast,
accurate; part of Lycos
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Metasearch -- another metasearch engine
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Info Seek Net Search
-- fast, accurate; good coverage
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Yahoo! -- subject directory, accurate,
great searching--use options for complex search
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Google -- designed to find the
most relevant web pages
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Lycos -- keywords, busy, but thorough
although it covers a small number of pages only
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MultiCrawler --
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Open Text -- full text, fast,
permits ranges
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Webcrawler search forms, keywords
-- fast, easy to use, but indiscriminate
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Excite -- newsgroup search, includes
reviews of Web sites
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many of these (server in
Switzerland)
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Other
Gopher Servers search titles, search by continent
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Magellan/McKinley server verified
info., search forms
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Sunsite Gopher
Catalogs:
Super-URL's that include many engines and directories:
Others:
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Archie
(for file names), Veronica
(for directories & file titles), WAIS
(WideAreaInformationServer, for text within files).
Some online dictionaries:
IDP: The Internet Dictionary
Project -- downloadable dictionaries
Merriam Webster Dictionary
online
Writing
resources
incl. Fowler's The King's English, Common Errors in English, MLA
Guide for writing research papers, CCTC Guide to grammar and writing, Strunk's
Elements of style, etc.
see also:
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last revised 3/2001--Prof. Ursula
Hoffmann