Internet Power Searching: The Advanced Manual

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1 Internet Power Searching: The Advanced Manual Phil Bradley NEAL-SCHUMAN PUBLISHERS INC. NEW YORK, LONDON

2 Contents зт figures асе An introduction to the Internet An overview of the Internet What the Internet is and what it isn't Search engines Commercial databases Virtual libraries and gateways Intelligent agents Newsgroups and mailing lists The information mix Better searching Better software Where to go next? X xiii 1 l l PART 1 MINING THE INTERNET FOR INFORMATION 15 2 An introduction to search engines The rise of the search engine 18 Free text search engines 19 Index- or directory-based search engines 20 Multi- or meta-search engines 22

3 Resource- or site-specific search engines How search engines work Free text search engines AltaVista Lycos HotBot Euroferret Other free text search engines Index-based search engines Yahoo Other index-based search engines Magellan NetFind, G.O.D. and Snap Other index-based search engines Multi-search engines and more! What is a multi-search engine? An in-depth look at the Internet Sleuth Single-site search engines People searchers Freely available information provided by publishers 79 Other available database resources Creating an online community 81 Commercial information 82 Online journals 86

4 Newspapers Bookshops Commercial search engines Virtual libraries and gateways Authority on the Internet What is a virtual library? Virtual libraries currently available Other virtual libraries A virtual library in action A virtual public library PART 2 BECOMING AN EXPERT SEARCHER Intelligent agents What is an intelligent agent? 107 Intelligent agents on the Web 109 Other search engine intelligent agents 116 Intelligent utilities 117 Commercial intelligent agents 121 The effect of intelligent agents on the information profession Usenet newsgroups and mailing lists Usenet newsgroups 125 Mailing lists 138 Some guidelines on posting to newsgroups and mailing lists

5 PART 3 THE FUTURE The information mix and into the future 149 "Where do I go first? Some sample searches Incorporating the Internet into your overall information strategy Information professionals unite! You have nothing to lose but your books and an intranet to gain! Commerce, the Internet and the information professional Future developments 11 Thirty tips and hints for better and quicker searching Getting online and moving around the Web When and where it's best to search Finding Web pages Finding information on a page Saving pages Printing pages Displaying pages Moving around the Web Returning to recently visited pages Running more than one copy of the browser Bookmarks Choose a new home page Getting more out of your browser's cache URLs listed in this chapter

6 12 Sources for further help and assistance General information resources 189 Mailing lists 193 Spam 194 Using search engines 196 What's new services 198 Bibliographies and bookshops 199 Software 200 Organizations 206 Magazines and journals APPENDICES HTML for a search engines home page Country codes URLs mentioned in the book 223 Index 229