Articles related to "Web Search"



Brief Reviews Of The Major Search Engines - Strengths, Weaknesses And Recent Changes
Biweekly search engines article. Brief reviews of Alta Vista, Excite, Infoseek, HotBot, Lycos and Northern Light. Strengths, weaknesses, special features, practical search tips.
• search engine reviews • web search tips • search engines • web searching

Metasearch Engine Reviews: MetaCrawler and Inference Find + Boolean Basics: AND and OR Operators
Biweekly search engines article. Part I. Metasearch engine reviews. When to use a metasearch engine. Part II. The AND and OR Boolean operators explained.
• metasearch engines • metacrawler • inference find • boolean operators • web searching

Search Engine Reviews: Five Shopping Search Engines - Each With A Different Slant
Biweekly search engines article. Reviews of ShopFind, BuyDirectory, Buyer's Index, Shopping.com, and Value America. Best uses, search tips, limitations.
• search engine reviews • search tips • internet searching • search engines • web search

Books to Watch For: New Titles for Information Professionals
A few soon-to-be published books of interest to the librarian/information professional.
• books • librarians • information professionals • libraries • publishers

Change is a Good Thing -- HandymanWire
Handyman USA is soon to be no more. HandymanWire will be taking its place and seems to me to be doing a good job of it.
• web • search • question • handyman • answer

How To Separate The Bulls From The Bearers of Truthfulness (P-2)
continuation of last week's article
• internet • web • searching

Infoseek and Ask Jeeves: Reviews and Search Tips + Natural Language Queries
Part I. Search engine strengths, weaknesses, special features, most useful search operators, practical tips. Part II. Natural language queries explained.
• infoseek • ask jeeves • web search tips • natural language queries • stop words

Librarians Making a Difference - Part 2
More librarians and information professionals doing innovative and important things in the field of librarianship and information science.
• librarianship • librarians • information searching • web searching • information professionals

Lycos: A Review and Search Tips + Use and Misuse of the Asterisk*
Biweekly search engines article. Review of Lycos including features, practical search tips, important options, shortcomings. Use and misuse of the asterisk.
• search engine • internet • searching • lycos • web searching

Medical Search Engines - Reviews and Search Tips
Biweekly search engines article. How to find medical information using Medline, PubMed, Internet Grateful Med, InteliHealth, WebMedLit, and MDX Health Digest. Practical search tips.
• medical infomration • online searching • specialized search engines • medical search engines • web search tips

Professional Reading: The Invisible Web
Do you have your copy of Chris Sherman and Gary Price's new book yet? Here's a quick summary, chapter by chapter.
• invisible web • professional reading • web searching • research • internet searching

Reviews of Excite and Reference.COM + Using The Title Operator To Narrow Your Search
Biweekly search engines article. Part I. Reviews of Excite and Reference.COM. Part II. Searching for words in web page titles.
• search engine reviews • web search advice • excite.com • reference.com

Reviews of Four Consumer Search Engines Offering Product Comparisons And Internet Store Ratings
Biweekly search engines article. Reviews of CompareNet, Product ReviewNet, BizRate, and eSmarts. Tips on using.
• search engine reviews • search tips • consumer search engines • web searching • internet searching

Search Engine Reviews and Search Tips: HotBot and What's New Too
Special features, strengths and weaknesses of HotBot and What's New Too. Practical search tips, important search options, shortcomings.
• search engine reviews • web search tips • website directory reviews • hotbot

Search Engine Reviews and Search Tips: Liszt and WebCrawler
Description and evaluation of Liszt and WebCrawler. How to find the mailing list you want on Liszt. Search options, shortcomings.
• search engine reviews • mailing list search engines • webcrawler • liszt • newsgroups

Search Engine Reviews and Search Tips: Search.com and Magellan + Infoseek Update
Search engine reviews and practical search tips. How to use Search.com to find specialized search engines.
• search engine reviews • web search tips • specialized search engines • search.com

Search Engine Reviews: Alta Vista and Four11 + Boolean Basics: The NOT (or AND NOT) Operator
Biweekly search engines article. Part I. Alta Vista and Four11 evaluated. Practical search tips. Part II. Using the NOT (or AND NOT) Boolean operator.
• search engine reviews • alta vista • four11 • boolean operators • web search tips

Search Engine Reviews: Yahoo and Northern Light + Boolean Basics: Using The NEAR Operator
Biweekly search engines article. Part I. Special features, strengths and weaknesses of Yahoo and Northern Light. Part II. Using the NEAR Boolean operator.
• search engine reviews • boolean operators • web search tips

Using ZDNet, COMPUTERS.COM, CMPnet and IDG.net To Search For Computer-Related Information
Biweekly search engines article. How to find information - not hype - about hardware, software, the Internet, etc., etc. Search engine reviews and practial search tips.
• search engine reviews • web search tips • computer search engines • finding computer information

Who Is RealNames.com?
RealNames sells keywords that can replace your web address.
• realnames • real names • internet • keywords • aol

How To Find Company Information on the Internet
A "how-to" guide for finding company information on the Internet.
• company research • company information • business resources • business information • business research

Is Microsoft Losing Marketshare?
Established companies are having to play catch-up with their younger Internet competitors. Are Microsoft's competitors too quick for them?
• internet brand • web search • purchase yahoo • microsoft problems • yahoo solve microsoft's problems

Linking and Search Engine Ranking
Link exchanges might be good for traffic spikes, but they can destroy search engine ranking and page rank strategies. Inbound and outbound links can add value, however.
• search engine ranking • search engine • web search • search the web • page rank

Prescriptions on the Net? No Problem!
Recently the FDA and the U.S. Customs testified about a growing problem. Medications are being imported into the United States in such quantities that inspection and FDA approval has become physically impossible. What does this mean to the consumer?
• fda • prescriptions • medications • pharmaceuticals • drugs

Reviews of Three Up-And-Coming Search Engines - PlanetSearch, Google, and GoTo.com
Biweekly search engines article. Strengths, weaknesses and special features of PlanetSearch, Google, and GoTo.com. Practical search tips.
• search engine reviews • web search engines reviews • planetsearch • google • goto.com.

Search Engines from the United Kingdom - Reviews and Search Tips
Biweekly search engines article. Reviews of searchUK, UK Plus and UK Yellow Web. Practical search tips, appropriate uses, scope of results.
• search engine reviews • web search tips • uk search engines • british search engines • american english

Still searching for news
A new tour of search engines that specialize in tracking down news headlines.
• 1st headlines • google • fast • all the web • search engines

Medical Info Searches on the Web
General Web search engines are not necessarily the best way to locate reliable information about medical treatments and research. You can learn here to search like a pro.
• medical information • web searching • medicine • treatment • doctors


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