Religion Search Engines: Christianity And Judaism
As the holiday season approaches, you might need information about Christian or Jewish beliefs, practices, or organizations. The specialized search engines discussed in this article - Best of the Christian Web, Christianity.Net/SEARCH, EWTN (Global Catholic Network), Shamash (Jewish Internet Consortium), and Bible Browser - can help you quickly find what you're looking for.
BEST OF THE CHRISTIAN WEB - A WIDE-RANGING DIRECTORY OF CHRISTIAN WEB SITES
Best of the Christian Web is a browsable and searchable directory of thousands of Christian web sites. It covers a wide range of subject categories, for example, Bible study, education, music, software, home and family, and evangelism and missions.
In addition, there's a link to the Christian Internet Business Directory, which provides access to Christian-owned and operated businesses on the Web.
Other features include a weather service, links to Christian radio and television stations on the Web, and busy chat rooms specializing in a variety of subjects such as homeschooling, prayer and prophecy.
Search Tips: When searching Best of the Christian Web, it's best to keep search words relatively general because only the words in titles and descriptions are indexed. There are menu choices for searching by keyword, phrase, and the Boolean AND and OR operators.
Results: Each directory item that's retrieved includes the title, a fairly full description, and the date the web site was added. Results are given in order of subject category.
Christianity.Net/SEARCH - DETAILED CHRISTIAN WEB SITE DIRECTORY WITH VALUABLE SPECIAL FEATURES
Christianity.Net/SEARCH is a detailed directory of over 9,000 Christian web sites. Some of the broad subjects covered are history, literature, computing, education, spiritual growth, Christian magazines and newspapers, theology and apologetics.
You can search the directory by keyword or phrase. The resulting web sites include titles and informative descriptions. Christianity.Net/SEARCH is also browsable both alphabetically and by subject.
Find Churches On The Web: Church Locator is a useful service that indexes churches with web sites. It's searchable by denomination and location. Church Locator also has a customized search interface for BigBook Yellow Pages where you can search for churches by city and state.
A notable special feature is access to Christianity Today magazine (which developed Christianity.Net/SEARCH) along with 12 other Christian-related magazines. Although these are searchable, results are often irrelevant and puzzling.
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