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SEARCHING THE INTERNET (also check "I" for indexing, index and indexers on this site) (1) American Society of Indexers / Frequently Asked Questions About Indexing (2) American Society of Indexers / Indexing Courses and Workshops. This site tells about indexing courses which evidently were originally developed for book indexing. The same basic approach can probably be used to index websites and the entire internet. The courses are for indexers (people who do the indexing) -- but the information is valuable for people who search the internet and thereby use the indexes generated by the indexers. (3) Mining The Deep Web / From The New York Times / (nyt) (4) researchbuzz -- Tips, tricks, hints and such on expert searching << http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/admin/about >> (5) Search Categories -- List of main categories at about.com -- Autos, Business & Finance, Cities & Towns, Computing & Technology, EducationElectronics & Gadgets, Entertainment, Food & Drink, Health, Hobbies & Games, Home & Garden, Jobs & Careers, News & Issues, Parenting & Family, People & Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Shopping, Sports & Recreation, Style, Teens, Travel, Video Games. Each of these link to lots of subcategories and finally various subjects within that gategory. This might not be a bad place to start if you are trying to compile a universal list of categories and subjects. (6) Search Engine Watch -- It is all about search engines and how they work <<http://searchenginewatch.com/>> (7) Search Engines are being tricked and their customers are being scammed / http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2167501 (8) Searching by Categories -- Preliminary thoughts on the subject -- not complete -- don't take it seriously at this point. (9) Searching the internet / www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html - UC Berkeley (10) Searching the internet / http://www.sou.edu/library/searchtools/ Southern Oregon University (11) Searching the internet / http://lone-eagles.com/search3.htm / (12) Worthwhile tips by David Warlick << http://landmark-project.com >> (13) Searching the Internet / http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml / University of South Carolina / bare bones 101: A basic tutorial on searching the web (14) Searching the internet with Google -- A link to their "advanced searching" / scroll down on the linked page (15) Searching the internet with Google -- with help from Soople -- a site based in India. This site provides an easy-to-use interface that puts your search through Google. (16) Searching the internet by using directories -- Directories are generally human selected and alphabetical and are an alternative to using "fill-in search windows"... We think directories are more efficient and will ultimately become recognized as the best way to find information on the web -- The following is a list of directories from the UC Berkeley library (16.1) General: A tutorial that discusses five sites in some detail (1) Librarians' Internet Index (2) Infomine (3) About.com (4) Google Directory and (5) Yahoo! (16.2) Librarians' Internet Index: http://www.lii.org / (16.3) Infomine: http://infomine.ucr.edu / (16.4) About.com: http://www.about.com / (16.5) Google Directory: http://directory.google.com / (16.6) Yahoo!: http://dir.yahoo.com (17) Publications on thesaurus construction and use : including some references to facet analysis, taxonomies, ontologies, topic maps and related issues (17.1) Software for building and editing thesauri (18) Taxonomy, Classification and Metadata Resources from the Scottish electronic Staff Development Library (19) Taxonomy Primer from the University of Texas (20) A-Z Indexes to Enhance Site Searching -- An online article by Heather Hedden, a member of the American Society for Indexing <<http://web-indexing.org/article-hedden-digitalweb.htm>> (21) Academic Info / Educational Subject Directory - Online Degree Programs - Test Preparation Resources. Academic Info is an online subject directory of over 25,000 hand-picked educational resources for high school and college students as well as a directory of online degree programs and admissions test preparation resources (SAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, GMAT, USMLE, TOEFL). They also offer timely news and analysis of critical events including the Iraq War, Afghanistan Reconstruction, Hurricane Katrina recovery, the genocide in the Sudan, and the War on Terrorism. "A rich selection of about 25,000 pages, selected as "college and research level Internet resources" aimed at "at the undergraduate level or above. (21.1) "Finding information on the Internet" Another link on that site: goes to a page of about 30 llinks to related sites on that page. (url)	commercial messages to go here

SEARCHING THE INTERNET (also check "I" for indexing, index and indexers on this site)

(1) American Society of Indexers / Frequently Asked Questions About Indexing
(2) American Society of Indexers / Indexing Courses and Workshops. This site
tells about indexing courses which evidently were originally developed for book
indexing. The same basic approach can probably be used to index websites and
the entire internet. The courses are for indexers (people who do the indexing) --
but the information is valuable for people who search the internet and thereby use
the indexes generated by the indexers.
(3) Mining The Deep Web / From The New York Times / (nyt)
(4) researchbuzz -- Tips, tricks, hints and such on expert searching << http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/admin/about >>
(5) Search Categories -- List of main categories at about.com -- Autos, Business & Finance, Cities & Towns, Computing & Technology, EducationElectronics & Gadgets, Entertainment, Food & Drink, Health, Hobbies & Games, Home & Garden, Jobs & Careers, News & Issues, Parenting & Family, People & Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Shopping, Sports & Recreation, Style, Teens, Travel, Video Games. Each of these link to lots of subcategories and finally various subjects within that gategory. This might not be a bad place to start if you are trying to compile a universal list of categories and subjects.
(6) Search Engine Watch -- It is all about search engines and how they work <<http://searchenginewatch.com/>>
(7) Search Engines are being tricked and their customers are being scammed / http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2167501
(8) Searching by Categories -- Preliminary thoughts on the subject -- not complete -- don't take it seriously at this point.
(9) Searching the internet / www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html - UC Berkeley
(10) Searching the internet / http://www.sou.edu/library/searchtools/ Southern Oregon University
(11) Searching the internet / http://lone-eagles.com/search3.htm /
(12) Worthwhile tips by David Warlick << http://landmark-project.com >>
(13) Searching the Internet / http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml / University of South Carolina / bare bones 101: A basic tutorial on searching the web
(14) Searching the internet with Google -- A link to their "advanced searching" / scroll down on the linked page
(15) Searching the internet with Google -- with help from Soople -- a site based in India. This site provides an easy-to-use interface that puts your search through Google.
(16) Searching the internet by using directories -- Directories are generally human selected and alphabetical and are an alternative to using "fill-in search windows"... We think directories are more efficient and will ultimately become recognized as the best way to find information on the web -- The following is a list of directories from the UC Berkeley library
(16.1) General: A tutorial that discusses five sites in some detail (1) Librarians' Internet Index (2) Infomine (3) About.com (4) Google Directory and (5) Yahoo!
(16.2) Librarians' Internet Index: http://www.lii.org /
(16.3) Infomine: http://infomine.ucr.edu /
(16.4) About.com: http://www.about.com /
(16.5) Google Directory: http://directory.google.com /
(16.6) Yahoo!: http://dir.yahoo.com
(17) Publications on thesaurus construction and use : including some references to facet analysis, taxonomies, ontologies, topic maps and related issues
(17.1) Software for building and editing thesauri
(18) Taxonomy, Classification and Metadata Resources from the Scottish electronic Staff Development Library
(19) Taxonomy Primer from the University of Texas
(20) A-Z Indexes to Enhance Site Searching -- An online article by Heather Hedden, a member of the American Society for Indexing
<<http://web-indexing.org/article-hedden-digitalweb.htm>>
(21) Academic Info / Educational Subject Directory - Online Degree Programs - Test Preparation Resources. Academic Info is an online subject directory of over 25,000 hand-picked educational resources for high school and college students as well as a directory of online degree programs and admissions test preparation resources (SAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, GMAT, USMLE, TOEFL). They also offer timely news and analysis of critical events including the Iraq War, Afghanistan Reconstruction, Hurricane Katrina recovery, the genocide in the Sudan, and the War on Terrorism. "A rich selection of about 25,000 pages, selected as "college and research level Internet resources" aimed at "at the undergraduate level or above.
(21.1) "Finding information on the Internet" Another link on that site: goes to a page of about 30 llinks to related sites on that page. (url)

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