Surfing the Net Without Going Under
SPTA Women in Technology, January 7, 1998
Search Tools |
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Search Engines |
AltaVista: Main Page http://www.altavista.digital.com/ |
| Infoseek— http://www.infoseek.com | |
| Lycos— http://home.netscape.com/bookmark/40/lycos.html | |
| Netscape Search— | |
| HotBot— http://www.hotbot.com |
Directories |
Britannica Internet Guide http://www.ebig.com |
| LookSmart Directory— http://looksmart.com/ | |
| Nerd World— http://www.nerdworld.com/cattree.html | |
| Yahoo!— http://www.yahoo.com/ |
Searches |
Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com/ |
| *Inference Find!— http://www.inference.comh~find/ | |
| Internet Sleuth— http://www.isleuth.com/ | |
| Mar ma—http :llwww. mamma. com/ | |
| MetaCrawler— http://metacrawler.cs.washington.edu:8080/index.html | |
| MetaFind— http://www.metafind.com/ | |
| Northern Light Search— http://www.nlsearch.com/ | |
| ProFusion— http://www.designlab.ukans.edu/profusion/ |
E-Mail Lists |
DejaNews— http://www.dejanews.com |
And |
Liszt: Searchable Directory of e-Mail Discussion Groups— http:// www.1iszt.com/ |
Newsgroups |
Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists— |
| Reference, Inc— http://www.reference.com/ |
Map |
MapQuest !— http://www.mapquest.com |
Searches |
Vicinity Corporation's MapBlast— http://www.mapblast.com/ |
People |
GTE SuperPages (yellow pages) http://superpages.gte.net |
| BigBook Directory Search (yellow pages) http://www.bigbook.com/ | |
| Fourl 1 Directory Services (white pages) http://www.four11.com | |
| WhoWhere (white pages) http://www.whowhere.com |
SURFING THE NET WITHOUT GOING UNDER SPTA WIT Presentation
If you are looking for |
Use |
Example |
| A specific site you think will be easy to find | Single search engine | US Robotics |
| A specific site you think will be hard to find | Meta-search | NCES |
| Several kinds of sites on one topic | Meta-search | Project management |
| A very broad topic | Directory | Recipes |
| Generic information | Directory | Health issues |
| A specific company | Company name as URL | Panasonic |
| An organization | Organization name as URL | STC |
Browser Tips
Useful web sites
Internet tutorials— http://www.inetport.com/inetpstuff/begp.htm
Roadmap (6-week course) http://ualvm.ua.edu/~crispen/roadmap.html
Scout Report— http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/
SPTA— http://www.silicon-prairie.org/
Tourbus (must-have!) - http://www.tourbus.com/
Unofficial Netscape FAQ— http://www.sousystems.com/faq/
Women in Information Technology— http://lucien.berkeley.edu/women_in_it.html
Women in Technology International— http://www.witi.com/
Women's Wire (fun stuff) http://www.women.com/
FAQ Finder— http://ps.superb.net/FAQ/
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Mary Howe January 7, 1998 Handout
Thunder Works, Inc.
Thunder@idir.net