Using the Web


Using the Web will open a vast vista of information for you. But you must be cautious. In libraries there are professionals who sift out the documents available to you; here you must do the sifting.


Yahoo!
Lycos ad main page
Mamma: Mother of All Search Engines
Infoseek Guide
LinkStar - Jeff Daniel Mullins
All-in-One Search Page
Your Gateway to the WWW
Search
SSI's Net Search
WWWW - WORLD WIDE WEB WORM
About Alta Vista
Searching Home Page
Search Engines INDEX

A place for daily devotions:

http://www.mdalink.com/cgi-bin/promises.cgi

Promise Keepers

http://www.acmepub.com:85/www/pk-prom.html

Getting Started

1. In the text box on the Search page, type what you are looking for.

Enter words and phrases that are likely to appear in the documents you want to find. Use the capitalization you expect to find in the target documents. Identify phrases by surrounding them with double quotation marks, or by hyphenating the words in the phrases. Use a comma to separate proper names. (For examples and more special syntax, see Syntax.)

2. Click the Search button.

You get a page showing the documents that match your search (the "hits"). The title of each document is a link. Click the link to retrieve the document.

The results of your search are listed in order of relevance. For each document, you see a numerical score showing how well the document matches your search. The score itself is unimportant, but comparing the scores on the documents can tell you the relative likelihood that the documents will have what you're looking for.

It's easy to focus your search to find what you're looking for quickly. Just choose your search terms carefully and use the guidelines in the provided Netscape sections.

Virtual Libraries

Following the WWW Virtual Library connection located at


http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Virtual_libraries/Overview.html


I found the followoing helpful information:

These are collections of information by subject matter, good places to start when looking for information.

Browsing by subject

* The World Wide Web Virtual Library is distributed in that different subjects are handled by different sites.

* The EINet Galaxy is a browsable and searchable database of public and private information. Sometimes produces the weirdest results.

* Planet Earth

* Joel's Hierarchical Subject Index. Yet another one.

* Nova-Links is an extensive Internet navigator from Nova Southeastern University.

* Yahoo - A Guide to WWW .

* Distributedly Administered Categorical List Of Documents

* CyberSight collates alternative information points on the Web, with interactive elements.

* Yanoff's Special Internet Connections

Searchable libraries

* The W3 searchable catalog built from other sources here. A very useful tool.

* The UU_NNA wishes to create a fully acredited library over computer networks. This is their library .

* The Internet Services list (based on Yanoff's Internet List)

* The Whole Internet Catalogue from O'Reilly (updated from the bestselling "The Whole Internet Catalog User's Guide Catalog")

* The Clearinghouse for Subject-oriented Internet Guides in Michigan -- you can browse or search.

Other catalogues

Hypertext

* EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet will help you join the global village known as Cyberspace or the Net (1.02)

* Marc Andreessen's big "loosely catagorized" meta index has ponters for example to the many Gopher subject trees.

* The Mother-of-all BBS collects WWW Home Pages for Companies, Universities, Research Centers, Government Agencies, Research projects, Hardware or Software announcements

Not hypertext

The HCI Bibliography Project

A free-access online extended bibliography on Human-Computer Interaction (gathers most books, journals, and conference proceedings on HCI dating back to 1980)

Interpaedia

An internet encyclopaedia. In discussion. See discussion archive .