sealight.htm: fravia's light search engines page
Howtosearch
Just copy this page onto your harddisk as
c:\sealight.htm (or whatever), and then
use it (after having edited anything you fancy)
in order to perform EFFECTIVE searches on the web
(and elsewhere). Check the complete
search engines and the
various how to search
pages for more explanations and to acquire
all the necessary skills.
ALTAVISTA
(Very quick! Text-only version, of course!)
YAHOO
http://www.excite.com
WWWorm
MAGELLAN
LYCOS
FTP search [the famous "Trondheim" server]
Over 100 million files have been catalogued by Lycos, now managing the famous Trondheim engine,
and can be searched using either the
lycos_ftp normal form or the
lycos_ftp advanced form that you'll find below as well.
http://www.infoseek.com
www.hotbot.com
NORTHERN LIGHT
You can of course search usenet switching the search engines above, else
use the 'usenet dedicated' depositories...
http://www.dejanews.com/
This is where you can do many researches. Find a newsgroup
that talks about your subjects first, then go there and refine the
search by adding to or typing over the original search entry displayed
in the query box.
http://www.reference.com
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Inference robots and scripts
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(Scripts that allow you to query (almost) simultaneously more than one search engine: "The Intelligent Massively Fast Parallel Web Search")
Inference find search
(This little juwel will produce an *.htm file with all found links in correct order)
Google (Very important inference tool because it has CACHED pages!)
alltheweb