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Managing Web Services - Resources for Archivists


Using the Large Commercial Search Engines to your Advantage

 

Introduction

Many users utilize search engines such as Altavista that traverse the web, indexing sites. Users also rely on directories such as Yahoo that catalog and organize the web. Relevant and frequent listings of your web site in these services provide more hits for your site.

 

Explanations and Tutorials

  1. 'Just the Answers Please': Choosing a Web Search Service* Thorough treatment
  2. Introduction to Search Engines (Kansas City Public Library)
  3. Search Engines: What they Are, How They Work, and Practical Suggestions for Getting the Most Out of Them
  4. Understanding and Comparing Search Engines
  5. Search Engine Tutorial
  6. How Search Engines Work
  7. A Webmaster's Guide to Search Engines and Directories
  8. Classroom Connect's Searching FAQl
  9. Can You Trust Your Search Engine?
  10. Sink or Swim: Internet Search Tools & Techniques
  11. Scott Nicholson's WWW Search Engine Selection Tool
  12. Scout Toolkit: Surf Smarter
  13. Search Engines: Where to Find Anything on the Net
  14. Comparing Search Engines

The Major Directories

  1. Yahoo!
  2. Magellan: McKinley's Internet Directory
  3. Point Review
  4. Web Crawler Select
  5. Starting Point
  6. Indices to Web Documents
  7. Librarian's Index to the Internet

The Major Search Engines

  1. Alta Vista
  2. Lycos
  3. Excite
  4. Open Text Web Index
  5. InfoSeek
  6. HotBot
  7. WebCrawler
  8. Dogpile
  9. MetaCrawler
  10. Savvy Search.
  11. search.com
  12. All-in-One Search Page
  13. Internet Sleuth
  14. Find-It!
  15. Big List of Search Engines.